Background & aim: pregnancy is a normal part of life, however, high-risk pregnancy that need bed rest can be stressful and affect woman and her family. Therefore, understanding the needs of women on bed rest seems to be necessary to enhance the quality of care services. The present study was conducted to investigate the women's needs on bed rest during high-risk pregnancy and postpartum period....

objective: the agricultural sector is one of the most important and the most basic of productive and economic sectors in each country, and support  of this sector is a very important issue in many countries around the world, that one of the principles supporting the agriculture sector is offering to appropriate and inclusive services to agricultural manufacturers and actors. in this regard, the...

Previous research has found cultural differences in the frequency of support seeking. Asians and Asian Americans report seeking support from their close others to deal with their stress less often compared to European Americans. Similarly, other research on professional help seeking has shown that Asians and Asian Americans are less likely than European Americans to seek professional psychologi...

SUMMARY Over the past decades the technological development of vehicles has evolved rapidly and today almost everything in a vehicle is controlled by electronic systems. At present time there are no signs of any weakening regarding this trend. With the maturity of wireless communication technologies it is possible to provide new kind of telematics services. A category of telematics concern vehi...

Histamine intolerance is characterized by a large variety of diffuse symptoms, whichcannot bewell attributed, andwhich cannot be graspedbyclassical clinical diagnostics. The authors present a new, three-phase concept for the diagnosis and therapeutical support of this clinical picture. The steps include a standardized anamnestic questionnaire, clinical and chemical evidence of the diamine oxida...

BACKGROUND After more than a decade of biomarker discovery research using advanced genomic and proteomic technologies, very few biomarkers have been translated into clinical diagnostics for patient care. This has become an urgent issue to be addressed because the continuing funding from both the public and private sources are called into question. METHODS We use as an example, OVA1, the first...

Sepsis represents a unique clinical dilemma with regard to antimicrobial stewardship. The standard approach to suspected sepsis in the emergency department centers on fluid resuscitation and timely broad-spectrum antimicrobials. The lack of gold standard diagnostics and evolving definitions for sepsis introduce a significant degree of diagnostic uncertainty that may raise the potential for inap...

Sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 70% of the 35 million people living with HIV worldwide, obviously carries the heaviest burden of the HIV epidemic. Moreover, the region's poor health system occasioned by limited resources and inadequate skilled clinical personnel usually makes decentralization of HIV care difficult. Therefore, quality diagnostics that are easy to use, inexpensive, and amenabl...