patients and methods using convenience sampling, people with chb attending four public liver clinics and one general practice in three australian jurisdictions between april and september 2013 completed a self-administered questionnaire about their feelings about having hepatitis b. results ninety-three people completed the survey. mean age was 45 years, 57% were men, and 93% were born overseas...

Death and aging anxieties are related to higher psychological distress, but no study has examined whether these relationships are moderated by emotional complexity, an important indicator of adaptive emotional regulation among older adults. Participants (N = 188; mean age = 57; range = 29–100) rated their death and aging anxieties, general psychological distress, and reported their emotions on ...

In this children’s story, Salmon Rushdie aptly portents a world in which narrative is no longer defined by the single, perfectly articulated linear strand but rather by a rich web of interconnected strands of story that float together in a “tapestry of breathtaking complexity.” For the past 25 years, many researchers, artists and designers have worked to realize a dream of creating complex narr...

Anxiety, especially in learning and decision-making, has long been a recognised factor of solitary Information Seeking. Collaborative information seeking, however, reintroduces factors of social anxiety into the search process, which were otherwise left behind in the transition between library (social) and online (individual) services. Library Anxiety Theory, for example, emphasized the social ...

Practices of spatial representation can be revealing indicators of particular brands of nationalized discourse. In this article, the prevalent use of a comparison between eastern Germany and the Italian Mezzogiorno by a specific set of German elites is examined. Anxieties about Germany's place in the European and global economies are accompanied by a spatial vocabulary that uploads these anxiet...

An examination of the nightmares of four adults in analysis who had been sexually abused as children revealed a characteristic distortion of the body representation as it appeared in the manifest content of the dream. The authors believe that childhood sexual trauma has profound and pervasive effects on the development and consolidation of the body image. Experienced as a grave assault on body ...

This article considers the reception and representation of advanced military technology in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. It argues that technologies such as the breech-loading rifle and the machine gun existed in an ambiguous relationship with contemporary ideas about martial masculinities and in many cases served to fuel anxieties about the physical prowess of the Briti...

The United States’ primary transportation energy sources are fossil fuels, namely, gasoline and diesel. These products have high environmental, security, and financial costs. A strong emphasis has been placed on biofuels, especially ethanol and biodiesel, to lessen the United States’ reliance on fossil fuels. Historically, high production costs, lack of infrastructure, return on investment anxi...