Abstract Having access and skills to use social technology, i.e. internet use, media applications, are considered as being vital online connection. Whilst evidence exists around facilitators barriers general technology is limited with regards the motivators, tangible offline benefits older users experience technology. Therefore, this study used a qualitative, exploratory method understand adult...

BACKGROUND Despite international concern about unregulated predictive genetic testing, there are surprisingly few data on both the determinants of community interest in such testing and its psychosocial impact. METHOD A large population-based public survey with community-dwelling adults (n=1046) ascertained through random digit dialling. Attitudes were assessed by structured interviews. RES...

Urban green spaces provide a context where constant association with these spaces can result in reducing the incidence or diminishing the effect of many diseases. Different studies assessed the relationship between using urban green spaces and health benefits considering influential quantitative aspects. This research tries to look differently at this issue by connecting the urban green spaces ...

Three engraved limestone plaquettes from the recently excavated Epipaleolithic open-air site Ein Qashish South in the Jezreel Valley, Israel comprise unique evidence for symbolic behavior of Late Pleistocene foragers in the Levant. The engravings, uncovered in Kebaran and Geometric Kebaran deposits (ca. 23ka and ca. 16.5ka BP), include the image of a bird-the first figurative representation kno...

This article reveals the benefits of having public sector participation in your exercises. It also outlines simple tips to having successful business continuity exercises for your organisation.

Abstract Introduction Sleep-related problems and pain affect millions of U.S. adults. Sleep-focused interventions improve both sleep pain-related outcomes. However, can be a barrier to insomnia care due perceptions that treatment may not as effective in the presence ongoing pain. This study evaluated whether severity interference daily life moderate effects behavioral treatments for on outcomes...

Although fertility rates are falling in many countries, Europe is the continent with the lowest. As men and women choose to have fewer children, total fertility rates in Europe have fallen below replacement levels: for a total fertility rate of 1.5, the rate is around 1.7 children per woman for the cohorts born in 1965. This is due to individual decisions arising from the instability of modern ...