The Institute of Medicine expressed a need for improved sweating rate (msw) prediction models that calculate hourly and daily water needs based on metabolic rate, clothing, and environment. More than 25 years ago, the original Shapiro prediction equation (OSE) was formulated as msw (g.m(-2).h(-1))=27.9.Ereq.(Emax)(-0.455), where Ereq is required evaporative heat loss and Emax is maximum evapora...

BACKGROUND With the introduction of human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and vaccination in the UK, health professionals will start to receive questions about the virus from their patients. This study aimed to identify the key questions about HPV that British women will ask when considering having an HPV test or vaccination. METHODS Face-to-face interviews were carried out with 21 women to disc...

This article focuses on what is meant by human resource development and how the world currently treats human resources. It examines the notion of ‘development’ as generated in an economic paradigm and delineates its impact on human beings in different societies. Further, it explores the processes of globalization that are operating at unprecedented levels and how they impact on human resource d...

Research on intrinsic motivation, much of which has progressed within the framework of Deci and Ryan’s (this issue) self-determination theory, has profoundly shifted our view of how people respond to rewards and punishments in terms of interest in and enjoyment of what they do and how they live. A key argument of their work is that controlling external influences, emanating from other people or...

Well, it ’s finally happened. I’ve been attacked in the scientific literature ~Salander, 2006!. Well, just to clarify, it wasn’t a personal attack, but rather an attack of the highest and most noble order: an attack on the scientific rigor of the conceptual underpinnings of my recent work on meaning and spirituality in advanced cancer patients ~e.g., Breitbart, 2002!. To be honest, and a bit le...

Mental health professionals have opportunities to intervene and provide care for trafficked people. Research shows that mental health problems - including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder - are prevalent among trafficked people, and that at least some trafficked people come into contact with secondary mental health services in England.

Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a family of structurally diverse unconjugated glycans that are highly abundant in and unique to human milk. Originally, HMOs were discovered as a prebiotic "bifidus factor" that serves as a metabolic substrate for desired bacteria and shapes an intestinal microbiota composition with health benefits for the breast-fed neonate. Today, HMOs are known to be mo...

The global phenomenon of human trafficking involves wide social and economic implications, and its expansion is strengthened by globalization and the use of new technology. Victims can be anyone. The forms of exploitation differ, ranging from sexual, labor exploitation, criminal involvement, arrangement of marriages, organ donation, to forced military service, all implying violent exploitation ...