The course is suitable for senior nurses, clinical nurse specialists and allied health professionals working directly with adult cancer patients with dependent children (under 18 years) and particularly those interested in enhancing their clinical competence and confidence supporting parents with cancer. The module has been designed to enable students to develop an understanding of systemic fam...

Nam Shub is a tool and software art project for the creation, modification and performance of text oriented electronic art ranging from experimental literature to visual sound poetry performances or interactive art installations. The discussed project is the second version or rather a newly developed and enhanced version of HyperString which was presented at e-poetry 2005. This tool will be mad...

OBJECTIVES Occult (surface antigen-negative/DNA-positive) hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is common in areas of the world where HBV is endemic. The main objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of occult HBV infection in HIV-infected African migrants to the UK and to determine factors associated with occult coinfection. METHODS This anonymized point-prevalence study identif...

abstract niklas luhmann was one of the prominent thinkers in the realm of sociology and the philosophy of social sciences. his approach was a systems approach. he classified the realm of reality and its entities into four groups that consisted of: machines, organisms, psychic systems, social systems. he belonged to the second wave of systemic thought and focused on the complexity and emergence ...

Results Bone specific alk. phosphatase, pyridonoline and desoxipiridinoline crosslinks and were significantly higher in patients with ART compared with patients without ART: 25.17 vs 13.22 pg/L (p < 0.001); 83.64 vs 51.23 nmol/ mmol (p < 0.001) and 16.38 vs 9.68 nmol/mmol (p<0.001)respectively. In contrast, no difference was found in patients with vs. without tenofovir 26.25 vs 20.18 pg/l (p =0...

This paper presents an overview of the image-morphologic primitives used commonly in non-photorealistic rendering (NPR), a subdomain of computer graphics that is inspired by a long tradition of artistic and illustrative depiction. In particular, we survey NPR shading, stroke-based rendering, sparse line drawings, graftals, and area primitives. Such primitives usually cover larger regions on the...

Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most severe manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality of SLE patients. The pathogenesis of LN involves multiple factors, including genetic predisposition, epigenetic regulation and environmental interaction. Over the last decade, omics-based techniques have been extensively utilized for b...

4 Astrophotonics comes of age: an OH-suppressing infrared fibre (Joss Bland-Hawthorn) 6 Southern vistas of the local universe: what's new in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (Heath Jones et al. Fig. 1: The top panel is the wavelength response of a new technology OH-suppressing fibre developed and patented by the AAO and industrial partner Redfern Optical Components (ROC). The middle panel shows how the re...

art is a way to provide distance from the intense affect associated with the disaster, and a way to work around and through the natural defenses that arise when trying to link affect with cognition. the ability to create art about the threatening thoughts and feelings channels the child’s energy into the art, or into a positive task, which then can be explored safely. if these thoughts can be e...