BACKGROUND Wellness retreats use many complementary and alternative therapies within a holistic residential setting, yet few studies have evaluated the effect of retreat experiences on multiple dimensions of health and well-being, and no published studies have reported health outcomes in wellness tourists. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of a week-long wellness-retreat experience in wellness ...

Using a one-dimensional numerical model of ice-stream flow with robust grounding-line dynamics, we explore controls on paleo-ice-stream retreat in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, during the last deglaciation. Landforms on the continental shelf constrain the numerical model and suggest that retreat was rapid but punctuated by a series of slowdowns. We investigate the sensitivity of ice-stream retrea...

Background Because of their arduous schedules, residents are susceptible to burnout, fatigue, and depression. In 2015, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) launched a campaign to foster physician wellness, in response to the suicides of three residents during the previous year. The campaign calls for strategies to developing resiliency, identify problems, and promote...

BACKGROUND Internal medicine residents are largely unprepared to carry out end-of-life (EOL) conversations. There is evidence that these skills can be taught, but data from randomized controlled trials are lacking. PURPOSE We studied whether a day-long communication skills training retreat would lead to enhanced performance of and confidence with specific EOL conversations. We also studied th...

s and proceedings from the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons Winter Retreat that was held on February 6–7, 2016, in Chicago, Ill. Presented at the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons Winter Retreat, February 6 and 7, 2016, Chicago, Ill. 2016 ACAPS Winter Retreat Meeting AbstrActs

In the previous publication «Geography in Switzerland» in Geographica Helvetica 1980, Vol. 35, No 5, we summarised the results of research on the paleogeographical reconstruction of late glacial stages in the Valais Alps (Winistörfer 1980). This field of research was the main thrust of physical geography at the University of Lausanne at the end of the 1970s and supported by «Les amis du quatern...

The objective of this study was to assess the performance form-based and process-based models, local-scale reach-scale used examine bank retreat sediment transport in stream restoration. evaluated models were Bank Erosion Hazard Index (BEHI), Assessment for Nonpoint Source Consequences Sediment (BANCS), Stability Toe Model (BSTEM), HEC River Analysis System (HEC-RAS 1D). Model-to-model assessme...

BACKGROUND The current study evaluated the support and education families with a child who has Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) received during a weekend family retreat. METHODS Thirty-one parents completed surveys at the end of the retreat session. Survey questions examined parent's perceptions of the family retreat experience including what they learned and how beneficial it was to their...