Pediatric brain tumor (BT) survivors are at risk for psychosocial late effects across many domains of functioning, including neurocognitive and social. The literature on the social competence of pediatric BT survivors is still developing and future research is needed that integrates developmental and cognitive neuroscience research methodologies to identify predictors of survivor social adjustm...

Reverse mortgages are becoming remarkably popular in the last few years in Australia, and although they have been around a lot longer in the United States, they are receiving renewed interest among the elderly. Increase in life expectancies and decrease in the real income at retirement due to inflation continue to worry the those who are retired or close to retirement. Today, financial products...

The term “cancer survivor” has been used to identify different populations affected by cancer [1, 2]. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) suggests “an individual is considered a cancer survivor from the time of diagnosis, through the balance of his or her life [3].” This definition, which has been adopted by the National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Survivorship, covers f...

Nurses must take the lead in planning care for survivors. 3.5HOURS " The Long Soak " by Dr. Anne Maxwell of South Africa, won best oil by a health care provider in the 2006 Lilly Oncology on Canvas: Expressions of a Cancer Journey art competition. For more information about the contest, see " On the Cover, " page 39.

BACKGROUND In Sierra Leone, over 4000 individuals survived Ebola since the outbreak began in 2014. Because Ebola survivorship was largely unprecedented prior to this outbreak, little is known about survivor experiences during and post illness. METHODS To assess survivors' experiences and attitudes related to Ebola, 28 in-depth interviews and short quantitative surveys with survivors from all ...

New methods for maximum-likelihood sequence estimation based on the Viterbi algorithm (VA) are presented. In the proposed scheme, the channel estimator and the Viterbi processor operate concurrently. At any given time-step, the sequence provided to the channel estimator comes from the survivor with the best metric value. These already known modifications of the traditional decision-directed VA ...

The thermal inactivation characteristics of Bacillus subtilis A spores suspended in skim milk with the use of large-scale ultrahigh temperature (UHT) processing equipment were investigated in terms of survival as measured with two plating media. Data on survival immediately after UHT treatments were recorded in temperature-survivor curves, time-survivor curves, and decimal reduction time (DRT) ...

Aim: To evaluate the relevance of endothelial-derived apoptotic microparticles (EMPs) with inflammatory cytokine outcomes in patients with ischaemic chronic heart failure (CHF). Methods: A total of 154 patients with moderate-to-severe CHF were enrolled in the study. Flow cytometry analysis was used for quantifying the number of EMPs. All-cause mortality, CHF-related death, and CHD-readmission r...