Beyond the recent expansion of extra-articular hip arthroscopy into the peri-trochanteric and subgluteal space, this instructional course lecture introduces three innovative procedures: endoscopy-assisted periacetabular osteotomy, closed derotational proximal femoral osteotomy and endoscopic pubic symphysectomy. Supportive rationale, evolving indications, key surgical techniques and emerging ou...

As the number and complexity of space missions increases, space communications enter a new era, where internetworking gradually replaces or assists traditional telecommunication protocols. The Delay Tolerant Network (DTN) architecture has recently emerged as a communication system for challenged networks, originally designed for the Interplanetary Internet. In the context of our project with ES...

Learning Communities is one approach in individuals to improve their skills and knowledge. Web based learning communities provide additional capabilities such as global distribution of participants and asynchronous participation. The learning process in such communities is flexible and distributed, but still uni-directional: knowledge, advices and support is transferred from professors to stude...

Introduction: About one-third of children are involved in bullying in primary school. Parental mood as a family background plays an important role in bullying. This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the parent training programs of CALM (coaching approach behavior and leading by modeling) and SPACE (supportive parenting for anxious childhood emotions) on the rumination and anxiety of m...

Introduction Over the past 35 or more years, mature and immature allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic cells collected from the PB3 have been used in the supportive care management of patients with therapy or disease-induced intermittent, recurrent, and often prolonged periods of BM suppression. Clinical, laboratory, and technological research has been directed into the cellular contents of t...

Dementia care is quite rightly the focus of much attention. Guidance on the treatment and care of people with dementia has recently been jointly agreed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, 2006). This recommends as a key priority for implementation that ‘Carers of people with d...

The Supportive Care Framework for Cancer Care was originally formulated in 1994 (Fitch, 1994). The framework was designed as a tool for cancer care professionals and program managers to conceptualize what type of help cancer patients might require and how planning for service delivery might be approached. The framework has been presented in various arenas and the number of requests has been gro...