Newly diagnosed Pancreatic Cancer Patients are naturally curious about their disease. Information can help them deal with the trauma of their diagnosis and help them make informed decisions about their course of treatments and options. Unfortunately, the web can be a vast and overwhelming challenge, especially for someone who is already feeling overwhelmed and alone due to a harsh and sobering ...

BACKGROUND We used data from a random telephone survey of 2045 adults in Recife, Brazil to investigate the associations of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with selected factors. METHODS We generated odds ratios of 4 HRQoL measures (perception of overall health, mentally unhealthy days, physically unhealthy days, and physically and mentally unhealthy days impeding usual activities) by l...

Th e au th or s Claire Kelly, BA, is clinical audit, research and development facilitator, Mark Burdon, BSc, MRPharmS, is community pharmacy development and clinical governance facilitator, Anne Archer, is dental health facilitator, Kathryn Featherstone, BSc, MRPharmS, is head of medicines management and Pam Lee, MPH, is public health specialist at South Tyneside Primary Care Trust. David Carte...

In this paper, we present our approach of facilitator that allows automatic service composition in distributed systems. We propose a facilitator based on ontologies and knowledge representation that allows clients to discover a service and to get the result of the service execution without direct interactions with their providers. We extend the functionality of the facilitator to be a compositi...

This article examines the influences of situational factors on user behaviour in usability tests. Sixty participants carried out two tasks on a computer-simulated prototype of a mobile phone. Employing a 3 x 2 mixed experimental design, laboratory set-up was varied as a between-subjects variable (presence of facilitator and two non-interactive observers, presence of facilitator or no person pre...

Social scientists strongly believe that cultural norms and values shape, stimulate, direct, and influence all activities of human societies. This study attempts to provide a sociological analysis of cultural components, in particular the content of the proverbs included in Dehkhoda's Amsal va Hekam (Proverbs and Parables) and their role in Iran's underdevelopment. This book was chosen ...

BACKGROUND Nurses, as the largest human resource element of health care systems, have a major role in providing ongoing, high-quality care to patients. Productivity is a significant indicator of professional development within any professional group, including nurses. The human resource element has been identified as the most important factor affecting productivity. This research aimed to explo...