This study describes the illness experience of dementia from the patient’s perspective. Five people with Alzheimer’s disease and their spouses were interviewed and observed during home visits. Thematic analysis revealed two themes: being unsure and trying to be normal. Being unsure describes people’s fluctuating experience of symptoms that leaves them feeling unsure of themselves in a world tha...

BW of replacement heifers is rarely measured on commercial farms, making it difficult to evaluate the success of management practices related to calf growth. Our aims were to describe variability among commercial farms in Holstein heifer BW, determine how BW differences varied with management and propose a method of estimating calf growth based upon single measurement. Heart girth circumference...

We study the top quark decay to b quark and W boson in the NonCommutative Standard Model (NCSM). The lowest contribution to the decay comes from the terms quadratic in the matrix describing the noncommutative (NC) effects while the linear term is seen to identically vanish because of symmetry. The NC effects are found to be significant only for low values of the NC characteristic scale. PACS:11...

Chapter 2 Comparison of potential risk factors for medication errors with and without patient harm 27 Chapter 3 Prescription errors in older individuals with an intellectual disability: prevalence and risk factors in the Healthy Ageing and Intellectual Disability Study 47 Chapter 4 Predicting adverse drug events using the number of biochemical tests as an electronic trigger 61 part ii Clinical ...

ion of conceptual entities (i.e. codes into categories, and categories into concepts) entails the inheritance of relationships between codes (those identified from the empirical data) by more abstract conceptual entities, i.e. categories abstracted from codes inherit relationships identified between the codes. This way, relationships between categories derive from relationships between the code...

BW 12C, a substituted benzaldehyde, stabilises haemoglobin in the oxy-conformation and has attracted interest as an anti-sickling agent. The drug causes a left shift in the oxygen saturation curve and may induce tumour anoxia and enhance the effect of cytotoxic drugs. During clinical trials in patients with cancer abnormal bands on haemoglobin electrophoretic strips were observed. This made cor...