This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty-six manuscripts were analyzed regarding the parameters investigated, the number of participants included, the study designs used, the assessment instruments, and the results. A broad range of factors were con...

Pancharatnam’s [1] notion of ‘in-phase’ is the underlying principle of the quantal geometric phase [2, 3]. It is based on the physical condition of maximal interference: the vector representatives |A〉 and |B〉 of two nonorthogonal quantal states A and B are in-phase if they produce a maximum in intensity when added. This amounts to the condition 〈B|A〉 > 0, and any deviation from it defines the P...

The duty to provide for the medical inspection ofchildren immediately before or at the time ofor as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in...

CHAINS OF REUSABLE ARTICLES by Ruth Carrasco-Gallego Submitted to the Departament of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Statistics in partial ful…llment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) at the ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID September 2010 c Escuela Técnica Superior de I...

Purpose This study was conducted to evaluate whether a community pharmacist's assistance during the treatment of a patient with a chronic illness would help to discover and improve issues regarding the treatment. Method We employed a prospective intervention study with a control group. The patients ranging in age from 60 to 74, were using one of the six selected community pharmacies in the To...

The opinion of mind-body interaction has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, as exemplified by accumulating evidence indicating that physical health (body) is associated with emotion and emotion regulation (mind). Yet, the neural basis linking emotion regulation with physical health remains largely uninvestigated. Here we used magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural bas...

The presence of common physical comorbidities, their demographic and clinical correlates and impact on functioning was assessed in 100 patients with schizophrenia. The patients had a mean age of 35.12±10.7 yr with mean duration of illness of 8.3±0.58 years. Seventy per cent were detected to have a comorbid physical condition. Common conditions included hypertension (21%), diabetes mellitus (15%...

BACKGROUND The field of risk assessment has focused on protecting the health of individual people or populations of wildlife from single risks, mostly from chemical exposure. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently began to address multiple risks to communities in the "Framework for Cumulative Risk Assessment" [EPA/630/P02/001F. Washington DC:Risk Assessment Forum, U.S. Environmental ...

The job demands-control model is one of the most recognized models in occupational stress research. It has, however, provided contradictory results, and the active learning hypothesis derived from this model has been under-researched in comparison with research on the stress hypothesis. The main aim of this study is to test the Job Demands Resources Model in the prediction of individual innovat...

This article examines the ethical basis for government involvement in health care. It first provides the case for individual autonomy, focusing on the justifications--particularly ethical ones--for allowing individuals to make their own choices in health care, and to control more of their own resources in doing so. Next, it provides the opposite case--for abridging individual autonomy, and in p...