Imagine your life as a huge flat canvas. Colorless, empty. Dull as ditchwater. Then start playing with it. Put in some undulations, mountains – hard to cross, but with great views from the top. Put in some rivers and seas – dangerous but nourishing and full of adventure. Put in some light and shade, that give shape to the day. Put in some dampness and dry areas, that give seasonal texture. Add ...

Long-term mechanical circulatory support is a life-saving technology while briding to heart transplantation. It increases the quality of life and preserves end-organ function for patients with advanced heart failure. The number of patients with advanced heart failure scheduled for heart transplantation before comorbidities escalate is on the rise. However, the device function is complicated by ...

Investigating the reasons that people give for unhealthy snacking behavior is important for developing effective health interventions. Little research, however, has identified reasons that apply to a large audience and most studies do not integrate multiple factors, precluding any conclusions regarding their relative importance. The present study explored reasons for unhealthy snacking among a ...

This report describes a 91-year-old patient with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) complicated by combined valvular disease (CVD) (aortic and mitral stenosis, and aortic, mitral, pulmonic and tricuspid regurgitation). This patient seems to be the oldest living female with PDA and CVD hitherto reported in the medical literature. The patient developed several bouts of congestive heart failure which ...

In everyday life, people get lost even when they have the map: they simply may not know where they are in the map. However, when moving forward they may have new observations which can help to locate themselves by reasoning. In this paper, we propose and develop a semantic-driven dynamic epistemic framework to handle epistemic reasoning in such navigation scenarios. Our framework can be viewed ...

Sexual dysfunction can be defined as the inability to partake in or enjoy a sexual relationship with oneÕs partner as a result of underlying physical and/or psychological factors. Although there is an alteration in sexual response with aging, age is not a deterrent to enjoying and maintaining a normal, healthy sex life. The elderly are often subject to health problems, and their sexual activity...