BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that neighborhood environments are related to depressive mood in the general population. Older adults may be even more vulnerable to neighborhood factors than other adults. The aim of this paper is to review empirical findings on the relationships between neighborhood characteristics and depressive mood among older adults. METHODS A search of the literatur...

This qualitative study focused on proxemic feelings and feelings of detachment and ambiguity among professors-nurses concerning their experiences. This study aimed to reveal the meanings of sensibility held by being-professor-nurse in teaching and learning to be and do nursing. The theoretical-philosophical support is based on Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenological approach and the hermen...

The study's aim was to investigate a central tenet of biodynamic philosophy as applied to wine tasting, namely that wines taste different in systematic ways on days determined by the lunar cycle. Nineteen New Zealand wine professionals tasted blind 12 Pinot noir wines at times determined within the biodynamic calendar for wine drinkers as being favourable (Fruit day) and unfavourable (Root day)...

This article presents and analyses a single pedagogic case of a small, rural primary state school in Queensland, Australia. The researchers spent one day per week for nineteen weeks serving the role of visiting teachers to the school. The goal of the research was to inquire into the pedagogical sustainability of this rural school and its relationship with community. Data was interpreted through...

The objective of this cross-sectional study was to assess the professional profile of dental-surgeons (DS) who work in the Family Health Strategy (FHS), and on the basis of this reflect upon aspects of the development of dental actions in primary health care in municipalities of a health region of the state of Piauí (Brazil) The study covered the nineteen municipalities of the region. The sampl...

Scholarly interest in Marxist philosophy has fluctuated dramatically in the past fifty years. Before that, there was little scholarly work in Britain on Marxist philosophy or on Marxism more generally. In the nineteen fifties there were important contributions by economic theorists and social historians but academic discussion of Marx's philosophy or even of his political theory was minimal and...

Based upon the expertise performed by ten basketball professional relative importance coefficients with regard to positions in the game were determined for nineteen performance evaluation criteria. High degree of interobservers agreement was obtained concerning all positions (from 0.91 to 0.98). In concordance with the obtained results the particular play positions were explicitly described, as...

Th e population frame for this study included 1,850 Cornell faculty members. In order to have as broad a representation as possible, we did not exclude: instructors and lecturers, faculty on leave, faculty based in graduate colleges, or faculty based outside of Ithaca. Before the initiation of the formal study, fi fty faculty members were randomly selected to take part in a pilot version of the...

elaboration of the significance of special symptoms and their bearing on the ultimate diagnosis of the cases discussed. He attains his object by means of case analysis. In the first volume pain and eleven other common symptoms were discussed in all their bearings and in the volume under consideration nineteen other symptoms have been selected for discussion and illustration by means of analysis...

1 Department of Neurology, Section of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, D-97080 Wuerzburg, Germany 2 Department of Neuroscience, King’s Health Partners Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, 125 Coldharbour Lane, SE5 9NU London, UK 3 Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Stra...