Overwhelmed by Choices

Overwhelmed by choices.

Overwhelmed Patients

OBJECTIVE Patients with diabetes may experience high burden of treatment (BOT), including treatment-related effects and self-care demands. We examined whether patients with type 2 diabetes and their clinicians discuss BOT, the characteristics of their discussions, and their attempts to address BOT during visits. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Two coders independently reviewed videos of 46 primar...

To Fully Exploit Shrinking Feature Sizes and Avoid Being Overwhelmed by Complexity , Microprocessor Designers Must Keep

Deep-submicron technology allows billions of transistors on a single die, potentially running at gigahertz frequencies. According to Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) projections, the number of transistors per chip and the local clock frequencies for high-performance microprocessors will continue to grow exponentially in the near future, as Figure 1 illustrates. This ensures that future ...

Food choices during Ramadan

Few studies have assessed the dietary Practices of people with diabetes during Ramadan (1). A sub study of Ramadan prospective diabetes study (2) which was conducted at the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and endocrinology, Karachi Pakistan in 2009 analyzed the food choices of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Several irregularities regarding dietary intake and food...

Outsourced and Overwhelmed: Gaining a Grasp on Managing Electronic Resources

Outsourcing the management of electronic journals has significantly reduced the autonomy academic libraries have over their collections’ metadata, as well as the ways in which that data is collected, organized, and made available to the library. However, the ephemerality of this metadata makes quality control burdensome and costly on the corporate end and necessitates ongoing title tracking and...