1 12 | introduction and outline introduction Working with people who experience severe psychological trauma leaves the therapist sometimes shocked about their horrifying, almost unbelievable histories and about the scars this may have caused, and at the same time intrigued by the way people were able to survive. In my daily practice, listening to details of a history of child abuse from a patie...

The natural question to ask is: Why does this odd behavior occur in the kidney stone treatment example? When comparing the treatments with the aggregated data, an assumption is implicitly being made that the decision for which treatment to use does not depend upon the size of the kidney stones. It turns out that this implicit assumption is incorrect, because open surgery was more often used for...

Organizers Ann English, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, H3G 1M8, Canada; Phone: 514-848-3338; Fax: 514-848-2868; Email: [email protected] Ichiro Okura, Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; Phone: 045-924-5752; Fax: 045-924-5778 Shigenobu Yano, Department of Chemistry, Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan;...

803 I. 803 II. 804 III. 804 IV. 805 V. 805 VI. 806 References 807 SUMMARY: Rather than direct plant-plant interactions, research on the community-scale influence of mistletoes reveals hitherto unappreciated roles of animals in mediating facilitation. Lacking roots and reliant upon animal vectors, mistletoes represent model systems with which to understand mechanisms underlying interaction netwo...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether participation in home-delivered meal programs similar to the Older Americans Act home-delivered meals program influence weight status among older adults with hypertension and/or hyperlipidemia. OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of a home-delivered Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) meal intervention on body mass index (BMI), energy consumed, and p...

The use of portable metabolic carts to assess energy expenditure (EE) by measuring oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) has recently been applied to patients undergoing weaning from mechanical ventilation. The VO2 and EE can be used to estimate changes in the work of breathing (WOB) associated with different weaning strategies. The purpose of this study was to use VO2 a...

Antepartum anxiety and/or depression is a major public health problem globally. The aim of this study was to estimate the frequency of antepartum anxiety and/or depression among pregnant women. This was a cross-sectional study conducted in a tertiary care hospital among pregnant women. A total of 165 pregnant women were interviewed by a clinical psychologist using HADS for assessing anxiety and...

Astier and Tressl have recently proven that a pp formula fails on a finite subspace of a space of orderings if and only if a certain family of formulae is verified (V. Astier, M. Tressl, Axiomatization of localglobal principles for pp formulas in spaces of orderings, Arch. Math. Logic 44, No. 1 (2005), 77-95). The proof given in their paper is nonconstructive and uses rather advanced techniques...