BACKGROUND Introduction of telehealth into the healthcare setting has been recognised as a service that might be experienced as disruptive. This paper explores how this disruption is experienced. METHODS In a longitudinal qualitative study, we conducted focus group discussions prior to and semi structured interviews post introduction of a telehealth service in Nottingham, U.K. with the commun...

In this paper firt of all we introduce a generalization of torsion freeness of acts over monoids, called -torsion freeness. Then in section 1 of results we give some general properties and in sections 2, 3 and 4 we give a characterization of monoids for which this property of their right Rees factor, cyclic and acts in general  implies some other properties, respectively.

We receive emotional signals from different sources, including the face, the whole body, and the natural scene. Previous research has shown the importance of context provided by the whole body and the scene on the recognition of facial expressions. This study measured physiological responses to face-body-scene combinations. Participants freely viewed emotionally congruent and incongruent face-b...

Gefitinib is a potent drug used in the treatment of nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Gefitinib acts by inhibition of the epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase. Clinical trials have confirmed the efficacy of gefitinib for NSCLC. Adverse drug reactions, although frequent, are mild, and include acne-like skin rash and diarrhoea. The present study describes the case of a 56-yr-old male...

Vibrio vulnificus (V. vulnificus), a Gram-negative marine bacterium, can cause life-threatening primary septicemia, especially in patients with liver diseases. How V. vulnificus affects the liver and how it acts on macrophages are not well understood. In this report, we demonstrated that V. vulnificus infection causes a strong inflammatory response, marked expansion of liver-resident macrophage...

This paper discusses a technique to structure utterance records of the meetings for requirements elicitation based on speech act theory. To elicit requirements to the system to be developed, the customers and the developers often have a series of face-to-face meetings. Utterances in verbal conversation made during the meetings include not only declarative information but also speech acts such a...

objective: cigarette smoking is a highly addictive behavior and nicotine dependence is a well known model for drug dependence. it also acts as a gateway drug for the use of other illicit substances. in 1999, iran ministry of health and the national research center carried out a study which revealed that 11.9% of iranian population use cigarette. methods: the present study is a cross-sectional h...

This article challenges the dominance of a rupture model for understanding how we live day-to-day with life-threatening illness and the prospect of death. It argues that this model acts as a key interpretive framework for understanding dying and its related experiences. As a result, a rupture model upholds a normative and inherently crisis-based view of severe ill-health that reifies dying as a...

Research on visual attention triggered by face gender is still relatively sparse. In the present study, three experiments are reported in which male and female participants were required to estimate the midpoint of a line (i.e., the "line bisection task"): at each end of the line a face was presented. Depending on the experimental condition, faces could be of the same gender (i.e., two males or...

Super-refractory status epilepticus is a life-threatening condition. Resistance to benzodiazepine and barbiturate treatment for this disorder is thought to be due to internalization of synaptic c-aminobutyric acid (GABA)A receptors, and withdrawal of benzodiazepines and barbiturates during treatment often triggers seizure recurrence. The neurosteroid allopregnanolone acts as a positive alloster...