Ms. S, age 24, is referred to our team in early December by her primary care physician for “fatigue.” The patient describes going to bed and falling asleep before 9:30 these winter evenings, whereas in summer she went to bed at 11 PM. She craves bread, pasta, and sweets and reports increased appetite in winter compared with summer. Her mood is low, and she misses warm-weather activities of gard...

We measured individual temporalchanges in-y-glutamyltransferase activity in serum afterfourconsecutive ethanolchallengesineach ofeightapparentlyhealthy volunteers. Each challengeconsistedofingesting 0.759 ofethanolperkilogramofbody weight on two evenings, followed by fivedaysofabstention duringwhich the activity was assessed at regular intervals. A nine-day abstention periodprecededthestudy, an...

Our University organizes evening lectures leading to a degree in computer science. Lectures take place two evenings per week and every Saturday morning. The students enrolled in this program are professional, with heavy family and business duties. They can not attend all lectures. Their need for self-paced and just-in-time learning is therefore just huge. To help these students, a project for b...

This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating marginal willingness to pay for different times of the day and days of the week, we find that these vary with the temporal dimensions: mornings and evenings have higher marginal ...

We recently published the results of a randomised controlled trial of a nurse telephone consultation service in primary care out of hours. The new service, operating at evenings and weekends, significantly reduced general practitioners’ workload and was at least as safe as the existing out of hours service. Contacts diminish sharply after about 10 pm, and, anecdotally, a higher proportion of ni...

OBJECTIVE Many colleges are removing trays from their dining facilities in hope of reducing waste. How does not having a tray impact food choice? DESIGN A field study was conducted in a university cafeteria (n 417) on two evenings with identical menus, one with tray service and one without. SETTING A dining hall of a large north-eastern university, USA. SUBJECTS Undergraduate students. ...

INTRODUCTION Indigenous children in remote communities carry a disproportionate amount of the dental disease burden among Australian 4-12 year-olds. However, there have been no reports of dental service use, dental self-care or dietary characteristics among remote-living Indigenous children. This information may provide insight into behaviours linked with the high levels of dental disease obser...

Citronella candles are widely used as insect repellants, especially outdoors in the evening. Because these essential oils are unsaturated, they have a unique potential to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA) via reaction with ozone, which is also commonly elevated on summer evenings when the candles are often in use. We investigated this process, along with primary aerosol emissions, by briefly...

This is an audit of 500 patients treated in a general practice setting. Acupuncture clinics are provided on two evenings each week and are funded by the practice. Short treatment times are favoured but this varies according to condition and response. A wide variety of conditions have been treated the commonest being neck pain, low back pain, shoulder problems, hayfever, knee osteoarthritis, and...

To become a medical home, providing patients with comprehensive, coordinated primary care, practices need to meet multiple requirements. These include some form of round-the-clock access for patients; managing chronic or complex conditions; carrying out timely, clear communication between providers and patients; and engaging in continuous quality improvement. The recently enacted health reform ...