OBJECTIVE To develop and test the feasibility of a whole-systems lifestyle intervention for obesity treatment based on the practices of Ayurvedic medicine/ Yoga therapy. DESIGN A pre-post weight loss intervention pilot study using conventional and Ayurvedic diagnosis inclusion criteria, tailored treatment within a standardized treatment algorithm, and standardized data collection instruments ...

Consumers often turn to non-caloric sweeteners (NCS) as a means of promoting a healthy body weight. However, several studies have now linked their long-term use to increased weight gain, raising the question of whether these products produce unintended psychological, physiological, or behavioral changes that have implications for weight management goals. In the following, we present the results...

This paper argues that feelings of agency are linked to human well-being through a sequence of adaptive mechanisms that promote human development, once existential conditions become permissive. In the first part, we elaborate on the evolutionary logic of this model and outline why an evolutionary perspective is helpful to understand changes in values that give feelings of agency greater weight ...

The individual decision in this study is denoted as interval weights of alternatives. Based on the idea that the inconsistency among comparisons stems from the uncertainty of the weights in a decision maker’s mind in giving them, the uncertain weight is assumed as interval in Interval AHP. Then, the group interval weight is obtained as an approximation of the individual interval weights based o...

PURPOSE To develop a group visit model that improves A1C, blood pressure, lipids, depression, and satisfaction among patients with diabetes that can be used in primary care practice settings. DATA SOURCES Using a pre/post-test descriptive design, data were collected from 22 adult patients of a private family practice office. All patients had a diagnosis of diabetes and A1C of 7.5 or above. Th...

INTRODUCTION Health coaching can improve lifestyle behaviors known to prevent or manage chronic conditions such as diabetes. However, little is known about the patient experience with telephonic coaching programs in real-world care settings. We examined patient satisfaction, patient's perceived success in achieving program goals, and the patient-level correlates of these outcomes in a voluntary...

OBJECTIVE To develop a questionnaire to assess parents' experiences and satisfaction with care during very preterm birth. DESIGN Questionnaire development. SETTING Parents whose babies had been cared for at five tertiary neonatal units in England. POPULATION A total of 145 women who gave birth before 32 weeks of gestation, and 85 of their partners. METHODS A 30-item questionnaire was de...

We consider sums of the Gaussian q-binomial coefficients with a parametric rational weight function. We use the partial fraction decomposition technique to prove the claimed results. We also give some interesting applications of our results to certain generalized Fibonomial sums weighted with finite products of reciprocal Fibonacci or Lucas numbers.

Scheduling and timetabling are commonly faced problems in most businesses and organizations. Both of these problems fall under the domain of constraint satisfaction optimization problems (CSOP), which involves finding a solution that satisfies all hard constraints, while at the same time maximizing some weighted sum of the soft constraints. Current constraint satisfaction techniques fare poorly...