We present clean evidence of a direct social context effect on behavior in a laboratory experiment: the gender composition of the room significantly alters the risk decisions of subjects even when the actions or presence of others are neither payoff nor information relevant. Our design is such that subjects do not know the decisions of others, nor can they be inferred. We find that women become...

background: cries of the newborn could be due to pain, thirst, hungry and fear from new environment. in our study we evaluated the effect of the sucrose drops on pacifying the children prior to a painful intervention or procedure with regards to the fasting condition of the children. methods: this triple blind clinical trial was conducted on 60 otherwise healthy children aged less than 1 year w...

Children with developmental disabilities may fail to constructive engage with the surrounding world, due to their pathologies and clinical conditions. In fact, they are frequently reported as quite passive, isolated, presenting medical complications, dystonic movements, stereotypic behaviours, seizures, breath difficulties. Accordingly, they dispose of a very poor and limited behavioural repert...

OBJECTIVE The current review aims to evaluate the sensory stimulation interventions in terms of reducing sleeping disturbances in patients with dementia. The nonpharmacological interventions seem to be an efficient, inexpensive, and easy tool for family caregivers. Moreover, sleeping disorders increase caregivers' distress and may lead to hospitalization. METHODS A systematic literature searc...

there is possibility of microbial contamination of any single-dose vials (sdvs), multiple-dose vials (mdvs) and admixtures (adxs) during the preparation and injection to the patients that could be resulted in bloodstream infection. the goal of this study was to investigate the microbial contamination of mdvs and sdvs after multiple use and adxs prepared by nursing staff in the treatment room ve...