university theses and dissertations are among those credible sources of information which, with regard to their given status of value, and the use of update resources using the international regulations and standards, can be perfect sources for optimal recovery of information and can increase the scientific credibility. this study reviews the accordance of the pharmaceutical theses of shahid be...

OBJECTIVE To describe interruptions (door openings and telephone calls) to breastfeeding dyads on postpartum day 1. DESIGN A descriptive design of continuous observations of persons entering the mother's room plus record of phone calls from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on postpartum day 1. SETTING Single bedded postpartum rooms in a tertiary level university hospital in northern Midwest United States. ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the long-term health-related quality of life (HRQOL) reported by young traffic injury victims and to assess the child-parent agreement on the child's HRQOL. DESIGN Cohort study with a mean follow-up of 2.4 years. SETTING Traumatology department in a university hospital in The Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS All traffic injury victims treated at the traumatology department...

Kristien Selis1, Hilde Vanacker2, Veerle Hermans3, Godewina Mylle4, Herman Devriese5 and Kris Kerckhofs6 1Ergonomics Department, IDEWE, Heverlee, Belgium 2/4 Medical Department, IDEWE, Heverlee, Belgium, 3Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Work Psychology, Brussels, Belgium 5Prevention Department, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 6Training Department, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Be...

AIMS To describe the course of low back pain (LBP) among nurses across eight years. METHODS A longitudinal study was performed with a follow up at 1 and 8 years among nurses employed by a large university hospital in Switzerland. A modified version of the Nordic Questionnaire was distributed to obtain information about demographic data, occupational activities, and various aspects of LBP. A c...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated factors that are influential on the choice of training hospitals among residency physicians, but the effect of salary was not conclusive. In this study, we aimed to examine whether a higher salary attracted more residents to non-university hospitals participating in the Japanese Residency Matching Programme. METHODS Data on 475 hospitals/programme...

ence not only in observing but in combating and ameliorating the ghastly horrors of our city slums, is unequalled. Miss Addams is an optimist in the sanest sense of the word, and she is a philosopher in the most human sense of that term. Her first chapter is an interesting analysis of the motive powers of the young in their relation to the present complicated industrial and social conditions of...

This study investigates the extent of under-diagnosis of acute confusion/delirium by analyzing the records of a health team and the perception of nurses concerning this phenomenon. This quantitative study was developed in a central university hospital in Portugal and used the documentary and interview techniques. The sample obtained through the application of the NeeCham's scale was composed of...

This socio-economic review provides an overview of the sanitation crisis in slum areas, and re-emphasizes the importance of sanitation. It highlights a lack of recognition of actual drivers for sanitation improvements, and the complexities in the provision of sanitation services in the context of urban slums with a mix of tenants and landlords. It elaborates how the drivers of demand for sanita...

We present the result of a theoretical study of inclusive quasi free electrofission of 238U. The off-shell cross sections for the quasi free reaction stage have been calculated within the Plane Wave Impulse Approximation (PWIA), using a Macroscopic -Microscopic description of the proton and neutron single particle momentum distributions. Electron wave function distortion corrections were includ...