Outbreaks of psoriasis usually can be linked with traumatic life stress events. Stressful life events in response to psychosocial trigger have been reported to negatively affect the course of psoriasis and are regarded as preventable causes of morbidity. Aims of this study were to determine which coping strategies are mostly used in psoriatic patients and to determine if there is a difference i...

The structural transformations of the larval Xenopus retina at successive stages of development, and concomitant changes in response characteristics of retinal ganglion cells, were studied using histological and electrophysiological techniques. The first sign of visually evoked electrical responses appears at about the time when the ganglion cells spread out into a single layer and shortly afte...

Scene change detection plays an important role in a number of video applications, including video indexing, searching, browsing, semantic features extraction, and, in general, pre-processing and post-processing operations. Several scene change detection methods have been proposed in different coding standards. Most of them use fixed thresholds for the similarity metrics to determine if there wa...

End-of-life care and planning is critically important to the next decades of health care in Canada. In our country, between 2005 and 2036, the number of seniors 65 years and older is projected to increase by up to 25%, and the number of deaths by 65%. The majority of patients are currently admitted to hospital and intensive care units at the end of life; however, up to 70% of elderly patients s...

This study aimed to identify occupational risk factors the professionals of Basic and Advanced Emergency Life Support are exposed. Semi-structured interview was used. The study subjects were 40 workers who are part of two Emergency Healthcare System teams in a city of São Paulo State-Brazil. Most workers identified the following risk factors: physical (high temperature and environmental noise l...

BACKGROUND Maternal overweight and obesity are risk factors for stillbirth and infant mortality. Whether temporal changes in maternal weight affect these risks is not clear. We aimed to assess whether change of BMI between first and second pregnancies affects risks of stillbirth and infant mortality in the second-born offspring. METHODS In a Swedish population-based cohort of women who gave b...