Introduction: Studies have reported associations between diaries kept for intensive care unit (ICU) patients and long-term quality-of-life and psychological outcomes in patients and their relatives. Little was known about perceptions of healthcare workers reading and writing in the diaries. We investigated healthcare worker perceptions the better to understand their opinions and responses to re...

Polynomial generalizations of all 130 of the identities in Slater’s list of identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type are presented. Furthermore, duality relationships among many of the identities are derived. Some of the these polynomial identities were previously known but many are new. The author has implemented much of the finitization process in a Maple package which is available for free do...

Because of the large size of its cell bodies, the abdominal (visceral) ganglion of the sea hare, Aplysia, has proven a useful preparation for biophysical and pharmacological studies of central neurons (1, 2, 7, 18). However, the systematic study of the organizational properties of this ganglion has been seriously limited by an inability to recognize more than a very few specific cells from one ...

The construction of new rural communities is an important measure to promote the integration of urban and rural areas. The environmental quality of new rural communities represents the residential suitability of the communities. The evaluation of the environmental quality can help promote the healthy development of new rural communities. The present study combines AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Proces...

We observed the gamma-ray pulsar Geminga with the FUV-MAMA and NUV-MAMA detectors of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer to measure the Geminga’s spectrum and pulsations in the ultraviolet. The slope of the far-ultraviolet (FUV) spectrum is close to that of a Rayleigh-Jeans spectrum, suggesting that the FUV radiation is dominated by thermal emission from the neutron star (NS) surface. The ...

During the past two decades, researchers and policy-makers have become interested in priority setting for health research both at the country and international levels, and this has increased its visibility. The 1990 report by the Commission on Health Research for Development1 clearly acted as a catalyst in creating this momentum. It recommended that each country should develop a strong national...

I N bacteriophage T2 the host range ( h ) region controls the specific adsorption properties of the phage particles. The original isolate, T2h+, adsorbs to E. coli strain B, but not to the mutant strain B/2. Spontaneous T2h mutants can be isolated from T2hf which now adsorb to both cell strains. STREISINGER and FRANKLIN, working with T2L, first investigated the genetic properties of this host r...

An extension of the supersymmetric U model for correlated electrons is given and integrability is established by demonstrating that the model can be constructed through the Quantum Inverse Scattering Method using an R-matrix without the difference property. Some general symmetry properties of the model are discussed and from the Bethe ansatz solution an expression for the energies is presented....