introduction:  one of the most frequent issues nurses encounter with after or during cancer-related surgeries is pain. for postoperative pain relief, different nonpharmacologic interventions, such as nurse–patient communication, mental support, preoperative education, and consultation can be used. doing such interventions may decrease postoperative pain. however, the research results regarding ...

abstract background: effective patient–professional communication can be of crucial importance to long-term psycho-social outcomes in patients with cancer. a cross sectional study was conducted to examine cancer patients' satisfaction with regard to various aspects of communication and information given by nurses. methods: a proportional stratified sampling method was done and data collected vi...

OBJECTIVE The current study examined the attributes of the reciprocated friends (RF) of a group of clinically referred obese children and the impact of these friendships on emotional well-being. METHODS Classroom visits for 87 obese youth [body mass index (BMI) >95th percentile; 8- to 16-years old) were completed to obtain peer reports of social functioning, including reciprocated friendships...

The importance of cancer biomarkers is now increasingly recognized and acted on by regulatory organizations, healthcare providers (from reimbursement through to practicing clinicians), cancer organizations, research institutes, and charities. For example, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) states in the opening of its mission statement, “The purpose and scope of the AJCC is to create...

Program sensitivity measures how robust a program’s outputs are to changes in its input. This is a useful measure in fields like differential privacy and cyber-physical systems, in order to guarantee that small input changes have a limited effect on the program behavior. A natural way to formalize program sensitivity is in terms of metrics on the input and output spaces, requiring that an r-sen...

Semantics of programming languages and interactive environments for the development of proofs and programs are two important aspects of Gilles Kahn’s scientific contributions. In his paper “The semantics of a simple language for parallel programming” [11], he proposed an interpretation of (deterministic) parallel programs (now called Kahn networks) as stream transformers based on the theory of ...