OBJECTIVE The use of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) in oncology settings has become increasingly popular, and research in the field has rapidly expanded. The objective was by means of a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the current evidence for the effect of MBT on symptoms of anxiety and depression in adult cancer patients and survivors. METHOD Electronic databases were search...

In recent years, Serratia marcescens has become established in certain localities as an agent of hospital infection and cross-infection (Clayton & von Graevenitz, 1966; Wilfert, Barrett & Kass, 1968; Davis, Foltz & Blakemore, 1970; Wilkowske, Washington, Martin & Ritts, 1970). In general, strains of S. marcescens isolated from infective lesions differ from those from other sources in being non-...

OBJECTIVE Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) has yielded promising results as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, to date, no quantitative review of its clinical utility has been published. METHOD We searched for randomized and sham-controlled trials from 1995 to March 2013 using MEDLINE, Embase,...

We focus on two approaches to formal concept analysis (FCA) of data with fuzzy attributes recently proposed in the literature, namely, on the approach via hedges and the approach via thresholds. Both of the approaches present parameterized ways to FCA of data with fuzzy attributes. Our paper shows basic relationships between the two of the approaches. Furthermore, we show that the approaches ca...

We examined the effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on symptom severity of depression, complicated grief, posttraumatic stress, and working memory in elderly bereaved people with long-term bereavement-related distress. A non-randomized, controlled pilot design was used in a sample of elderly bereaved people (mean age=77 years) with long-term bereavement-related distress. Resul...

In this paper we build upon previous works of Hájek and Vychodil on the axiomatization of truthstressing and depressing hedges as expansions of BL logic by new unary connectives. They show that their logics are chain-complete, but standard completeness is only proved for the expansions over Gödel logic. We propose weaker axiomatizations that have as main advantages the preservation of standard ...

Slowly but surely, intuitionistic fuzzy sets are giving away their secrets. By tracing them back to the underlying algebraic structure that they are defined on (a complete lattice), they can be embedded in the well– known class of L–fuzzy sets, whose formal treatment allows the definition and study of order–theoretic concepts such as triangular norms and conorms, negators and implicators, as we...