The authors examined the long-term cognitive implications of cancer treatment among breast cancer survivors over 65 years old who received treatment during midlife. Thirty women survivors were matched with 30 noncancer, healthy older adults in terms of age, education, and IQ. The cancer survivors scored significantly lower in the cognitive domains of executive functioning, working memory, and d...

BACKGROUND The importance of long term rehabilitation for people with stroke is increasingly evident, yet it is not known whether such services can be materialised in countries with limited community resources. In this study, we explored the perception of rehabilitation professionals and people with stroke towards long term stroke rehabilitation services and potential approaches to enable provi...

The results of this study show that donor-derived immunity can be detected and persists in long-term survivors with and without chronic graft-v-host disease (GVHD) after human marrow grafting. Seventy-one marrow recipients (60 long-term and 11 short-term survivors) were studied for the presence of specific serum IgG antibodies to tetanus toxoid (TT), and 46 marrow recipients (35 long-term and 1...

Scotland’s new Curriculum for Excellence has re-ignited an old debate about the status of the social subjects in the curriculum (Geography, Modern Studies and History). Put broadly, this concerns the issue of whether these subjects should be taught as discrete entities within the junior secondary curriculum (S1-3) or as part of a more integrated approach. The balance in this debate seems to hav...

OBJECTIVES Inanimate and virtual reality box training help in developing basic laparoscopic skills. The lack of tactile feedback and lack of reality may be a detriment when training with virtual reality trainers. This study examined the hypothesis that there is no difference in laparoscopic skills acquisition when virtual reality trainers are partially substituted for inanimate box trainers. ...

In Aplysia, long-term sensitization (LTS) occurs concurrently with a suppression of feeding. At the cellular level, the suppression of feeding is accompanied by decreased excitability of decision-making neuron B51. We examined the contribution of voltage-gated Na+ and K+ channels to B51 decreased excitability. In a pharmacologically isolated Na+ channels environment, LTS training significantly ...

For the purpose of this document, long-term stewardship (LTS) is the federally implemented institutions, controls, information, and mechanisms necessary to protect the public and environment from legacy waste deemed impractical, unsafe, or too costly to remediate to freerelease standards. According to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) definition, LTS includes land use controls, monitoring, ...

In this study, we examine marine low cloud cover variability in the Southeast Pacific and its association with lower-tropospheric stability (LTS) across a spectrum of timescales. On both daily and interannual timescales, LTS and low cloud amount are very well correlated in austral summer (DJF). Meanwhile in winter (JJA), when ambient LTS increases, the LTS–low cloud relationship substantially w...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) in long-term survivors of high-grade osteosarcoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS The QOL of 33 long-term survivors of osteosarcoma was evaluated using the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire. The patients were divided into a limb-sparing group (14 patients) and an amputation group (19 patients), and the QOL was compared be...

Cure models are a popular topic within statistical literature but are not as widely known in the clinical literature. Many patients with cancer can be long-term survivors of their disease, and cure models can be a useful tool to analyze and describe cancer survival data. The goal of this article is to review what a cure model is, explain when cure models can be used, and use cure models to desc...