OBJECTIVES When one member of a couple has a chronic illness, communication about the illness is important for both patient and partner well-being. This study aimed to develop and test a brief self-report measure of illness-related couple communication. DESIGN A combination of correlations and multiple regression were used to assess the internal consistency and validity of the Couples' Illnes...

Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium parvum are parasitic protozoans and infections are common in domestic ruminants. Infections can lead to moderate to severe diarrhea with occasion mortalities. Clinical disease with Cryptosporidium parvum occurs in calves between 1 and 3 weeks of age lasting 1-2 weeks in duration. Giardiasis is observed in calves older than 3 weeks of age and is chronic. Th...

Four commercial sticky fluorescent yellow rectangle traps differing in shades of yellow, fluorescence, and other features were compared for capturing apple maggot fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh). Traps were the Alpha Scents Yellow Card (Alpha Scents), Pherocon® AM (Pherocon), Multigard® AM (Multigard), and the StikyTM Strips Insect Trap (Olson, small and large sizes), all baited with the same...

Abstract Two of the main contenders in debate about personal persistence over time are neo-Lockean psychological continuity view and animalism as defended by Olson Snowdon. Both wrong. The position I shall argue for, which call, following Olson, hybrid view, takes (non-branching) a sufficient but, pace neo-Lockeans, not necessary condition for persistence. It sides with animalist allowing that ...

INTRODUCTION Researches show that chronic illnesses may affect marital adjustment and sexual function. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to recognize marital satisfaction, sexual dysfunction and demographic factors among Chemically Injured Veterans (CIV). MATERIALS AND METHODS In this descriptive research, we selected and studied 185 cases of CIVs referred to Tehran's hospitals. Dat...

There is controversy between Putnam and Olson concerning the role of group. Putnam argued that small group makes a contribution to economic growth whereas Olson asserted that small group hampers the economic growth through rent-seeking behavior. Since the end of the 1990s in Japan, there has been a remarkable rise in the rate of enactment of public information-disclosure ordinances by local gov...

In this paper, the size dependent behavior of the gold micro-switches has been studied. This behavior becomes noticeable for a structure when the characteristic size such as thickness or diameter is close to its internal length-scale parameter. The size dependent effect is insignificant for the high ratio of the characteristic size to the length-scale parameter, which is the case of the silicon...