Background Human speech is the wonderful gift given to human being by God for communicating their ideas, needs and feelings. But an inability to speak, no matter temporary can be catastrophic for the patients in tertiary care. Some patients in tertiary care units may be communication compromised due to various reasons. A quasi experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of vi...

A service registry is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) component that keeps a ‘catalogue’ of available services. It stores service specifications so that these specifications can be found by potential users. Discussions on the design of service registries currently focus on technical issues, while service registries should take into consideration information needs of business domain users....

PURPOSE This study explored the relationship between children's basic psychological needs satisfaction at recess, level of recess physical activity motivation (RPAM), and recess physical activity (RPA). METHOD Fifth-grade children (N = 203; 50.2% boys; 71.7% healthy-weight) completed measures of age, gender, basic psychological need satisfaction, and level of self-determined motivation for RP...

BACKGROUND Since the family is a social system, the impairment in each of its component members may disrupt the entire family system. One of the stress sources for families is accidents leading to hospitalization particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU). In many cases, the families' needs in patient care are not met that cause dissatisfaction. Since the nurses spend a lot of time with pati...

Many older Latinos use spirituality to navigate the challenges associated with hospitalization. Although spiritual assessments are typically recommended in such settings, little, if any, research has sought to identify the factors that predict satisfaction with addressing clients’ spiritual needs. Using a national sample of recently hospitalized older Latinos (N = 227), this secondary analysis ...

selecting sites for various uses is one of the final stages in land use planning. given the fact that the ‎favorable establishment of uses, which is influenced by a variety of factors, is the main reason that ‎helps lower the costs, the site selection of land uses in rural development plans should be able to ‎maintain its favorable position over time with the minimum changes so as to ensu...