an aborted female holstein foetus with marked generalized anasarca was referred to the excellence centre for ruminant abortion and neonatal mortality, ferdowsi university of mashhad. on postmortem examination, red-tinged ascites, pale and firm liver with extreme irregularity and numerous round to oval slightly raised foci on the capsular surface were seen. histological examination revealed wide...

this study was done for identification of bacterial agents in calf pneumonia and determination of their antimicrobial susceptibility. bronchoalveolar lavage was done on fourteen pneumonic and seven normal holstein calves between 1-3 month old. in bacteriological examination on the fluid of bronchoalveolar lavage, mycoplasma spp. were isolated from 4 (28.6%) pneumonic calves and 1 (14.3%) health...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To present an expert consensus, standardized, patient-informed sleep diary. METHODS AND RESULTS Sleep diaries from the original expert panel of 25 attendees of the Pittsburgh Assessment Conference(1) were collected and reviewed. A smaller subset of experts formed a committee and reviewed the compiled diaries. Items deemed essential were included in a Core sleep diary, and tho...

Affective events theory (AET) argues that everyday negative events are likely to lower both daily work engagement and momentary positive affect. These problems can then persist on subsequent days. However, AET also argues that individual strategies can diminish the ill effects of negative events. We explicitly focused on good sportsmanship or abstaining from unnecessary complaints and criticism...

Objectives: To compare the effects of living alone versus living in a group setting on the health, nutrition, personal cognition and general living function of a group of elderly Taiwanese. We also hypothesized that older adults living alone would have poorer indices of function and health than would elderly persons living in a group setting. Design and participants: We conducted a cross-sectio...

BACKGROUND To ascertain the potential contributors to nutritional risk manifestation and to disclose the factors exerting a negative impact on hospital length of stay (LOS), by means of poor nutritional status, in a nonselected hospitalized population. MATERIALS AND METHODS NutritionDay project questionnaires were applied to 295 adult patients. Study parameters included anthropometric data, d...

OBJECTIVE To explore the use and interpretation of self reported on/off diary data for assessment of daily motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease. METHODS 26 consecutive non-demented patients with fluctuating Parkinson's disease received standardised training on how to fill out the four category CAPSIT-PD on/off diary, followed by four hours of clinical observation and four weeks of daytim...

Immersion is commonly described by gamers and gamereviewers as an important aspect of a videogame. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the immersive experience of videogames and the addictive nature of games. Building on Charlton’s (2002) study of addiction and engagement in computing, we conducted a questionnaire study of people who play videogames. It seems that videogames ...

This paper explores how we, as individuals, purposefully or serendipitously encounter “new music” (that is, music that we haven’t heard before) and relates these behaviours to music information retrieval activities such as music searching and music discovery via use of recommender systems. 41 participants participated in a three-day diary study, in which they recorded all incidents that brought...

BACKGROUND Diaries are the most commonly used adherence measurement method in home-based rehabilitation trials, yet their completion and validity varies widely between trials. We aimed to: (1) generate theory to explain this variation, (2) create an optimised diary and (3) evaluate the optimised diary's validity. METHODS Stage 1. DEVELOPMENT using a multiple case study approach, we collecte...