BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine changes in stroke survivor and caregiver quality of life (QOL) and to determine whether changes in survivor physical functioning and caregiver burden (ie, the impact of the physical, psychological, and social demands of caregiving) influence changes in QOL. METHODS Longitudinal design with 226 stroke survivor-caregiver dyads enro...

This paper discusses the possible uses of survivor swaps as instruments for managing, hedging and trading mortality-dependent risks. Survivor swaps are attractive instruments for insurance companies that need to manage their mortality risks, but also offer banks, securities firms, hedge funds and other interested parties an easy avenue into the acquisition of mortality risk exposure. The paper ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To understand the content and temporal structure of survivor-provider communication during breast cancer survivor follow-up visits. DESIGN Descriptive correlational. SETTING Private outpatient oncology practice. SAMPLE 55 breast cancer survivors; 6 oncology providers. METHODS A secondary analysis of audio recordings of survivor follow-up visits. MAIN RESEARCH VARIAB...

ghassankanfani, writer, critic freedom fighter and palestinian martyr, has written many novels regarding the realities of society (disasters caused by the palestinian adversity in 1948). ghassan presents precise and realistic descriptions of human being and existence in these novels. the novel “the survivor” is a representation of the events of palestine which could only be understood through i...

Survivors of adult cancer face lifetime health risks that are dependent on their cancer, cancer treatment exposures, comorbid health conditions, genetic predispositions, and lifestyle behaviors. Content, intensity, and frequency of health care that addresses these risks vary from survivor to survivor. The aims of this article are to provide a rationale for survivor health care and to articulate...

Three experiments (total N = 464) were conducted in parallel with English- and German-speaking participants to examine the perceived meanings and effects of the labels "victim" versus "survivor" (and their German equivalents) when applied to a woman who was raped. In Study 1 (N = 179), participants read a rape vignette and then rated the meaning of the label it contained (either "victim" or "su...

The reliability of composite system (series, parallel) is improved by (i) reduction method, and by (ii) hot duplication, considering the systems survivor function. Related survivor equivalence functions and pointwise survivor equivalence factors are derived in all cases when the components lifetime distribution follow the gamma–Weibull distribution introduced recently by Leipnik and Pearce.