This paper explores the use of social awareness support as a potential solution to alleviate informal care al, and emotional load habitually associated with their duties. This is a preliminary contribution of the Vienna University of Technology to TOPIC project that is currently under development. In this paper we report on relevant literature, identify and consider technological and interactio...

The continued spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major threat to global tuberculosis control. Treatment is complex and requires longer use of more-expensive, less effective, and toxic anti-tuberculosis drugs, which results in high morbidity and mortality. The poor treatment outcomes and the slow progress in the development and ev...

venous drip. At the moment of entry into the chest, the patient is in considerable distress as exhibited by intense sweating and hypoxia. However, the anaesthesiologist calms the patient and reminds him of the previous week's traning in breathing controL. There is no untoward mediastinal shift and any alteration in blood pressure and pulse rate is soon corrected. Similarly, on closing the chest...

The interest on Andrea Rossi's Nickel-Hydrogen Cold Fusion technology is accelerating. In the present article I would like to answer a question posed by L. Kowalsky in Vixra: how can 30% of nickel in Rossi’s reactor be transmuted into copper? "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler", says a guy. I apologizes if I am too simplistic here. ________________ * Retired. Earl...

In the present article I would like to answer a question posed by L. Kowalsky in a recent paper: how can 30% of nickel in Rossi’s reactor be transmuted into copper? "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler", says a guy. I apologizes if I am too simplistic here. ________________ * Retired. Earlier: Selenia SpA, Rome and IDS SpA, Pisa. Also Adjunct Professor at the Univer...

We read with interest the article by Adachi et al. ‘Preoperative small pulmonary artery did not affect the midterm results of Fontan operation’ [1]. One of the main messages of the article is that Fontan operation can be successfully performed in patients with a preoperative PA index smaller than 250 mm/m. Further, the authors note that decreased pulmonary artery index postoperatively does not ...

First submission on 30/11/12; last submission on 13/09/13; accepted for publication on 15/09/13; published on 20/12/13 1. MSc in Pathology by Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); adjunct professor at UFF. 2. Doctoral student in Pathology at UFF; adjunct professor at UFF. 3. MSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology by Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; adjunct professor at UFF. 4. PhD in Pathology by UFF; ad...

Brexit has foregrounded radical divergences between the accounts of UK’s constitutional order advanced by UK Government and devolved governments, with distinctions coming into sharp relief in debates over legislation to sustain internal market. This article examines limits roots Government’s insistence that is a unitary state, not union-state, textbook tradition scholarship. Writers from A. V. ...

BACKGROUND Screening with mammography can detect breast cancer early, before clinical symptoms appear. Some cancers, however, are not captured with mammography screening alone. Ultrasound has been suggested as a safe adjunct screening tool that can detect breast cancers missed on mammography. We investigated the benefits, harms, cost-effectiveness, and cost burden of ultrasound as an adjunct to...