Social workers, like other health care providers, may lack the necessary skills for effective pain and symptom management and to competently address the complex yet critical bio-psychosocial-spiritual needs facing seriously ill patients and their families. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a national educational program designed to promote excellence in pain manageme...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease transmission by Triatoma dimidiata persists in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America under undefined ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) conditions. METHODOLOGY Eco-bio-social risk factors associated with persistent domiciliary infestation were identified by a cross-sectional survey and qualitative participatory methods. Quantitative and qualitati...

In this paper, we present a bio-inspired job scheduling mechanism that enables the adaptation of largescale, naturally parallel and compute-intensive Monte Carlo tasks to clustered computational farms. Examples of such farms include large-scale computational grids, with heterogeneous and dynamic performance. The kernel of this scheduling mechanism is a swarm intelligent algorithm, which is insp...

attitudes to humankind will have different effects on health service delivery. health might used to be intended to provide physical health in the past; today, however, many researchers and clinicians consider the concept health to be beyond physical health. in support of this claim, it is enough to indicate that the bio-psycho-social model has for years been held by scientific communities to be...

Clustered sensor networks have shown to increase system throughput, decrease system delay and save energy. In this paper, we propose a bioinspired clustering protocol inheriting the social behavior of Rhesus Macaque monkeys, targeting prolonged network lifetime. The behavioral features are added to the basic LEACH, thereby reducing the energy overhead involved in the set-up phase. The simulatio...

background & aim: cassia angustifolia vahl is a valuable medicinal plant that it is important for constipation treatment. according to the importance of organic agriculture in increasing the yield of medicinal plants, the effect of bio-fertilizer on quantities yields of cassia angustifolia vahl or senna in karaj region (iran) was examined. experimental: this research was carried out in rand...

The immortal HeLa cells case is an intriguing example of bio-objectification processes with great scientific, social, and symbolic impacts. These cells generate questions about representation, significance, and value of the exceptional, variety, individuality, and property. Of frightening (a lethal cancer) and emarginated (a black, poor woman) origins, with their ability to "contaminate" cultur...

In the popular media and scientific literature, the idea of medical utopia seems to have been revived. Medical science and technology are expected to provide solutions for all kinds of daily problems in human existence. The utopian context and optimistic atmosphere are influencing deeply the bio-ethical debate concerning bio-molecular technologies. They a priori direct this debate towards indiv...