ing was present. The last menstrual period had started 14 days previously. There was no history of nocturia, dysuria, frequency or backache. Irregular acquired dysmenorrhcea had been noted in the past. A similar attack had occurred two months previously on a train trip from Calcutta and lasted a few days. The patient had shortly afterwards a routine annual physical examination by another physic...

PURPOSE Musculoskeletal conditions can impair people's ability to undertake physical activity as they age. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate perceived barriers and facilitators to undertaking physical activity reported by patients accessing ambulatory hospital clinics for musculoskeletal disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS A questionnaire with open-ended items was administe...

A large-scale survey of the physical condition of books and the nature of the collections in the Yale University Library system that evaluated more than 36,500 volumes was carried out. Results have been tabulated, compared by computer, and analyzed to provide statistical information on the fifteen distinct collections surveyed in thirty-six separate strata. Environmental conditions were also mo...

The Japan Nurses' Health Study (JNHS) is a prospective occupational cohort study investigating the effects of lifestyle and healthcare practices on women's health. It was initiated in 2001, with a six-year entry period and a proposed ten-year follow-up. Participants comprise female registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, public health nurses, and midwives, aged 25 yr or over at the baseli...

The ‘‘perfect’’ surgical scenario: You feel good, rested, and confident in the procedure you are about to perform. The patient is in good physical condition, is easy to communicate with, and seems to have a good understanding of what is required postoperatively. After the surgical procedure, you feel like everything worked out perfectly and you are confident that the patient will experience a g...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of stage-matched repeated individual behavioral counseling as an intervention for the cessation of smoking. METHODS We conducted a multisite randomized controlled trial that enrolled smokers unselected for their readiness to quit. There were 979 smokers with hypertension or hypercholesterolemia recruited from 72 study sites and r...

BACKGROUND Young adolescents' and their parents' experiences with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and its treatment were explored to investigate beliefs and attitudes regarding use of stimulant medication, and their influence on treatment decisions. METHODS Using in-depth qualitative interviews, 12 adolescents with ADHD aged 12 - 15 years, and their parents described their exp...

Software Distributed Shared Memory (S-DSM) can be used to build cost-effective high-performance computing platforms out of clusters of individual computers. In this project we propose to extend this to study the use of many small, inexpensive processor nodes in a hierarchical fashion for new applications. The primary research issues here are the design of software DSM for embedded processing no...

Tlie vast amount of money invested in school properties and annual budgets, cannot be well expended unless the children are in a proper physical condition to receive instruction. Unless children receive and absorb the instruction presented they cannot; be properly educated. Unless children are properly educated they do not become useful citizens; instead they, are apt to develop idle and crimin...

In February 1912, the Surgeon General of the United States Army prepared a special preliminary physical examination for candidates who were to receive instruction in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. This examination and those devised over the next four years were too demanding and few candidates could pass. In response to the need to revise medical standards for aviators, Colonel Theod...