BACKGROUND Solid organ transplantation is the treatment of choice for those with organ failure, but suitable organs are a limited community resource. Little is known about community preferences for the allocation of those organs. We aimed to determine community preferences for organ allocation and reasons for their choices. METHODS Participants were recruited from the community in four states...

OBJECTIVE Acute and chronic psychological distress have been associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) but little is known about the determinants of distress as a coronary risk factor. Broad and stable personality traits may have much explanatory power; this article selectively focuses on negative affectivity (NA; tendency to experience negative emotions) and social inhibition (SI; tendency ...

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) has proven to be one of the most challenging of all pediatric cancers. Owing to a historical reticence to obtain tumor tissue for study, and based on an erroneous assumption that the biology of DIPG would mirror that of supratentorial high-grade astrocytomas, innumerable studies have been undertaken-all of which have had a negligible impact on the natural...

Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament characterized by social reticence and withdrawal from unfamiliar or novel contexts and conveys risk for social anxiety disorder. Developmental outcomes associated with this temperament can be influenced by children's caregiving context. The convergence of a child's temperamental disposition and rearing environment is ultimately expressed at both the b...

BACKGROUND There has been growing emphasis on preconception care as a strategy to improve maternal and child health since the 1980s. Increasingly, development of genetic tests will require primary care providers to make decisions about preconception genetic screening. Limited research has been conducted on how primary care providers interpret patients' characteristics and use constructs, such a...

The main goal of this survey is to explore lifelong learning in the third age island community Syros hope that findings will provide data may be useful creating educational programme structures. Lifelong taking place with a group senior citizens at KAPI Municipality Syros-Ermoupoli explored, along potential implementing comprehensive active programmes specific age. topics examined include idios...

This article takes up the case of Joseph Maclise (1815–1891), a talented and truculent surgeon, anatomist, medical illustrator mid-nineteenth-century Britain. left behind corpus brilliant, idiosyncratic anatomical images, opinionated commentaries, but almost no evidence his social interactions or affective relations. Homoerotic desire was heavily policed in Maclise’s time. Given conditions unde...

Purpose This study aims to determine the contribution of financial skills entrepreneurial intentions among women involved in university education. Design/methodology/approach Clustering and logistic regression analyses were used infer determinants motivators intention a sample students at Spanish online university. Findings Financial numerical could play significant role boosting culture, overc...

The use of English for communicative purposes among Sri Lankan state university students has been a topic concern many decades as they are typically noted being either reticent or ambivalent in using the target language (TL) oral communication irrespective their proficiency TL fact that enrolled Medium Degree Programmes (EMDPs). This paper therefore offers sociological response to issue through...

COVID-19 has placed additional challenges on mental health services. Video consultations (VCs) have provided a short-term solution to lockdown restrictions but could also increase long-term capacity meet the anticipated rising demand. A total of 7752 VCs were conducted over six weeks. Thematic analysis 474 online survey responses identified twenty patient attributes that influenced staffs’ deci...