AbstractBackground In a period of hopelessness motivated by restrictive Victorian society that confined women to the domestic realm, Florence Nightingale wrote cathartic Cassandra (1852) in an attempt transform her despair into rebellion. Aims To discuss Nightingale's approach women's role Cassandra. Methods Historical Research was used analyse ...

AbstractObjective To use the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to assess mothers' behavioral intentions provide toddlers with a healthy diet and see if addition parental role construction (PRC) variable strengthened TPB. Design An online survey using data gathered from preliminary research previously validated survey. Participants The final sample consisted 14...

Objective To study reproductive outcomes, and pregnancy delivery complications after conservative or operative treatment of rectovaginal endometriosis during long-term follow-up. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting University hospital. Patient(s) Women with referred to hospital due any indication from 2004 2013 (N = 543) who were treated initially eith...

Context: National guidelines recommend that patients with chronic non-cancer pain prescribed long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) undergo periodic urine drug testing (UDT), yet little evidence supports the utility of this approach. Given wide variation in test utilization and interpretation, it is important to understand factors associated UDT. Objective: To identify patient prescr...

The role of endogenous histamine and H1, H2 and H3 central receptors on food intake in broiler chickenswas investigated. For this purpose, a probe was used to manipulate the concentration of endogenoushistamine by intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of thioperamide, an H3 receptor antagonist, and R-α-methylhistamine, an H3 receptor agonist and subsequently the effects of brain histaminergic...

Abstract Summary Untargeted metabolomics data analysis is highly labor intensive and can be severely frustrated by both experimental noise redundant features. Homologous polymer series are a particular case of features that either represent large numbers features, or alternatively interest with peak redundancy. Here we present homologueDiscoverer, an R package which all...

Research Objectives To investigate the association between veteran socio-demographics and clinical factors with likelihood of having a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), TBI survival Veterans Health Administration (VHA) costs. Design A retrospective study veterans diagnosed age-matched cohort without were followed 2000-2015. Setting using VHA Medical Centers Community Base...

Objective To provide evidence-based recommendations to practicing physicians and others regarding the efficacy of oocyte cryopreservation (OC) for donor in vitro fertilization planned OC. Methods The American Society Reproductive Medicine conducted a literature search, which included systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, prospective retrospective com...

AbstractBackground Bariatric surgery has been found to be effective in the treatment of severe obesity. Studies have shown that majority eligible patients do not undergo surgery. Objectives It is important identify variables may impact patient decision making and potentially lead disproportionate underutilization bariatric Setting The study was conducted at o...

Background Analysis of injury and illness prevalence in elite sport provides the basis for development prevention programmes. Objectives To analyse frequency characteristics injuries illnesses occurring during 13th Federation Internationale de Natation (FINA) World Championships 2009. Design Prospective recording newly incurred illnesses. Methods The FINA hos...