background: fatigue is one of the important factors in nursing performance because it affects the quality of care provided to the patients. in this regard, some complementary interventions such as benson relaxation techniques may relieve fatigue. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of benson relaxation on fatigue of nurses working in intensive care units. methods: this is an experimental st...

conclusions the benson relaxation could reduce pain intensity in women after cesarean section. results the mean of pain score before intervention at cg was 4.43 cm. it was decreased to 4.40 cm (1 min), 4.27 cm (12 h), 4.10 cm (24 h), 4.00 cm (36 h), 3.93 cm (48 h), 3.83 cm (60 h), 3.67 cm (72 h) and 3.51 cm (84 h). meanwhile, the ig was 4.97 cm. it was decreased to 4.90 cm (1 min), 4.23 cm (12 ...

background and purpose: anxiety is a common problem associated with invasive medical procedures, especially in patients undergoing coronary angiography. as an intensifier at cardiovascular reactions, anxiety poses significant risk to the health of patients undergoing angiography. researchers believe that use of benson’s relaxation technique could reduce anxiety in different patients. this study...

objective behavioral interventions such as relaxation training and biofeedback are some of the most effective interventions for management of migraine headaches. in this study we evaluated the utility of biofeedback-assisted progressive muscle relaxation training (prt) in the treatment of migraine. materials and methods in this prospective study, twenty patients (12-18 years old) with a confirm...

abstract background: fatigue is the most common and highly disabling symptom of multiple sclerosis (ms) that has negative effects on employment, the process of socialization, compliance with the disease, and other factors effective on activities of daily living. the usage of complementary and alternative medicine methods in ms patients is higher than in the general population. however, there is...

In the intact heart, there are simultaneous changes in stress and length throughout the cardiac cycle. In a recently developed digital control system for experiments on isolated papillary muscles from rabbit right ventricle, we included a controlled auxotonic twitch. This twitch allowed proportional changes in stress and length, as if the muscle was acting against an ideal spring. The auxotonic...

By means of computer simulations, we investigate the relaxation of the Rouse modes in a simple bead-spring model for non-entangled polymer blends. Two different models are used for the fast component, namely fully flexible and semiflexible chains. The latter, which incorporate intramolecular barriers with bending and torsion terms, are semiflexible in the sense that static intrachain correlatio...

An experimental speech recognition system was developed for German using an already existing technology reported elsewhere (1). The system recognizes complete sentences when the words are spoken with a small pause in between. The user has to train the system in advance by uttering 110 short sentences. The size of the system's vocabulary is presently limited to about 1300 words, with a coverage ...

THE1974 ARTICLE BY Line and Sandison entitled “ ‘Obsolescence’ and Changes in the Use of Literature with Time” was highly critical of many assumptions about obsolescence and of the methodology and conclusions of much research on the topic. It placed emphasis on the distinction between synchronous and diachronous studies and on the need to correct for the size of the literature cited or used. Si...

Current systems use caching to provide high performance and possibly support disconnected operation. However, current solutions are type specific. With the advent of modular distributed operating systems and mobile machines there is a need to provide generic support for implementing cacheable/disconnectable services. We present an architecture that can be used to implement cacheable/disconnecta...