BACKGROUND Associations between shift work (SW) schedules, mental distress and job satisfaction have never been completely described. AIMS To examine gender-specific associations of SW with mental distress and job satisfaction in nurses in Hebron District, Palestine, in 2012. METHODS Detailed information on work schedules (day versus shift), socio-demographic status, mental distress (Genera...

AIM The aim of this cross-sectional study was to identify self-care behaviours and their relationships with treatment satisfaction and quality of life in people attending a structured educational programme for patients on intensive insulin therapy. METHODS A sample of 104 people with diabetes (62 with type-1; 42 with type 2) was recruited from the National Institute of Endocrinology and Diabe...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of small-scale living facilities in dementia care on residents, family caregivers, and staff. DESIGN This was a quasi-experimental study including 2 types of institutional nursing care: small-scale living facilities (experimental group), and regular psychogeriatric nursing home wards (control group). Three measures were conducted...

OBJECTIVE This paper aimed to analyze self-evaluations in terms of quality of life (QoL), physical health (PH) and mental health (MH) of ex-medical students from a Brazilian public university, correlating these outcomes with demographic data and several professional aspects. METHODS a cross-sectional study with a target population of all students graduated from the Botucatu School of Medicine...

There is little knowledge about occupants’ satisfaction when diverse end users coexist in the same building. This paper presents results of a survey administered to 1013 occupants 43 academic buildings Spain, with aim reveal perception indoor environmental quality and workplace ergonomics both lecturers students. The revealed that light adequacy, cleanliness acoustics classrooms are perceived d...

Background: No study has experimentally manipulated sedentary behavior and evaluated its effect on life satisfaction. Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a free-living, sedentary behavior-inducing randomized controlled intervention on life satisfaction. Methods: Active, young adults between the ages of 18-35 were recruited and randomly assigned into a sedentary behavi...

r is called commuting regular ring (resp. semigroup) if for each x,y $in$ r thereexists a $in$ r such that xy = yxayx. in this paper, we introduce the concept of commuting$pi$-regular rings (resp. semigroups) and study various properties of them.

We characterize obstruction sets in caterpillar dualities in terms of regular languages, and give a construction of the dual of a regular family of caterpillars. In particular, we prove that every monadic linear Datalog program with at most one EDB per rule defines the complement of a contraint satisfaction problem.