abstract background: chronic renal disease and hemodialysis cause numerous psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual challenges for both patients and their families. overcoming these challenges is possible only through providing holistic support for the patients. today, despite the support provided by family and professional caregivers for the patients, patients still express dissatisfacti...

The trichotomy between regular, semiregular, and strongly irregular boundary points for $p$-harmonic functions is obtained unbounded open sets in complete metric spaces with a doubling measure supporting $p$-Poincar\'e inequality, $1<p<\infty$. We show that these are local properties. also deduce several characterizations of semiregular points. In particular, characterized by means capacity, me...

We present a data structure used to represent planar spatial databases in the topological data model. Conceptually, such databases consist of points, lines between these points, and areas formed by these lines. The data structure has the distinctive feature that it is geared toward supporting queries involving topological properties of the database only: two databases that are topologically equ...

We show that professional soccer players and their coaches exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that players breach the rules of the game, measured by the referee’s assignment of cards, significantly more often if their teams are behind the expected match outcome, measure...

Let S be a nonempty bounded set in R2. Then S is staxshaped if and only if every 3 or fewer boundary points of S are clearly visible via S from a common point of S. The number 3 is best possible.

Let Γ be a topological semigroup acting on a topological space X, and let Γ0 be a subsemigroup of Γ. We give general conditions ensuring that Γ and Γ0 have the same transitive points.

The transfer of council estates into housing association (HA) ownership has transformed the structure of social housing provision across Britain; in half of English local authorities council housing is a thing of the past. From 1997, stock transfer extended beyond rural shire districts, with urban estates accounting for the majority of properties being handed to new social landlords. This study...

We present a data structure used to represent planar spatial databases in the topological data model. Conceptually, such databases consist of points, lines between these points, and areas formed by these lines. The data structure has the distinctive feature that it is geared toward supporting queries involving topological properties of the database only: two databases that are topologically equ...

Speaker transitions in conversation are often brief, with minimal vocal overlap. Signed languages appear to defy this pattern with frequent, long spans of simultaneous signing. But recent evidence suggests that turn boundaries in signed language may only include the content-bearing parts of the turn (from the first stroke to the last), and not all turn-related movement (from first preparation t...