introduction: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. the concomitant occurrence of copd and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (osahs) is named overlap syndrome. this study aimed to evaluate the severity of osahs in overlap syndrome patients.materials & methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with forced...

BACKGROUND Dog-owners tend to be more physically active than non-owners; however, dogs have also been shown to inhibit physical activity for non-owners, under some circumstances. METHODS We conducted a scoping review to identify studies pertaining to the influence of dogs on physical activity for both dog-owners and non-owners, and adopted a critical realist orientation to draw inferences abo...

We have previously shown that dog-owner interaction results in increasing oxytocin levels in owners and dogs, decreasing cortisol levels in owners but increasing cortisol levels in dogs. The present study aimed to further investigate whether oxytocin and cortisol levels in the previously tested owners and dogs were associated with their behaviors during the interaction experiment. Ten female vo...

Launched in August 2020, the Book Owners Online was built as a collaborative project between Bibliographical Society and University College London, designed to be scalable flexible with aspiration expand both chronologically geographically. Initially containing data for around 1400 English seventeenth-century book owners, number of entries has grown more than 1800, covering Scottish well moving...

The principal objective in this paper is to examine in some depth the relationships between ownership structure, business growth and financial performance amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with different degrees of overlap between management and ownership. The research employs panel data for 1,872 SMEs legally organised as proprietary companies, taken from the Australian federal...

A pilot survey using a structured questionnaire was conducted in Tororo and Busia districts of Uganda on the knowledge and attitudes of cattle owners regarding tsetse fly and trypanosomosis control, in order to understand factors that hindered their full participation. A total of 81 cattle owners was randomly selected and interviewed, of which 92.5% were aware of tsetse flies and trypanosomosis...