PURPOSE Patients with cancer experience considerable symptom burden, psychological morbidity, and unmet psychosocial needs. Research suggests that feedback of patient-reported outcomes to clinicians or caseworkers, alongside management strategies, may result in improved patient functioning. Two intervention models were developed to test this effect in a randomized, controlled trial against usua...

Ba5CaTi2?xZnxNb8O30 ceramics (x = 0, 0.04, and 0.08) were synthesized by a conventional solid-state reaction method at 1300 °C for 6 hours.

The purpose of the research is to study efficacy new multicomponent drugs for dogs and cats against arachnoentomosis helminthosis. Materials methods . four-component Insacar Total C Plus Drops Dogs K Cats was studied on target animal species. experiment included 90 82 including 38 37 with monoinfection by ticks ( Sarcoptes canis , Demodex Notoedres cati Otodectes cynotis family Ixodidae), 39 31...

Alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) are an important element of sustainable development and electromobility. Even though the analysis consumers’ preferences towards AFV has already been done in various countries, point view consumers from country representing Central Eastern Europe was missing. Within our complex, two stages survey (CATI CAWI) we used conjoint method to compare balance factors res...

Feuer and Kessler (1989) generalized the McNemar test (1947) to a two sample situation where the hypothesis of interest is that the marginal changes in each of two independent sample's tables are equal. We show two refinements of this test for complex survey data, which require different estimates of variance. In particular, we present these tests along with applications from the Current Popula...

The aim of this study was to describe parasites of three lynx living in an enclosure of Western Pomeranian Nature Society in Jablonowo. During analysis of 3 gram faecal samples eggs of Toxascaris leonina, Toxocara cati, Ancylostoma sp. and oocysts of Cystoisospora felis were found. To our knowledge this is the first report of C. felis infection in lynx from Poland. Presented research show that ...

To determine the prevalence of helminth eggs in public places and children's playgrounds, 112 soil samples were collected in 26 sites in Shiraz, southern Islamic Republic of Iran, during September 2002-September 2003. Toxocara cati ova were found in 7 (6.3%) samples, 2 had Ascaris lumbricoides ova, 3 had larvae morphologically similar to Strongyloides stercoralis. Coccidia oocysts were also obs...

In 2003, the NSW Department of Health, in conjunction with the 17 area health services, completed the second year of the NSW Continuous Health Survey, an ongoing survey of the health of people in NSW using computerassisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The main aims of the NSW Continuous Health Survey are to provide detailed information on the health of the people of NSW, and to support the pl...