BACKGROUND A low health-related quality of life (HQL) is associated with the evolution of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and mortality in patients in end-stage of the disease. Therefore research on psychological determinants of HQL is emerging. We investigate whether acceptance of the disease contributes to a better physical and mental health-related quality of life (PHQL and MHQL). We also exami...

, Abstract We study an eMcient iterative algorithm fbr computing the stationary distributions ih MX/G/IZN queues with arbitrary state-dependent arrivals, that is, ., MX(k)/C/1/N queues. MX(k)/G/1/N queues include the well studied specidl cases, such as PBAS (partially batch acceptance strategy) At(,X/G/1/N queues and tt WBAS (whole batch acceptance strategy) MX/C/1/N queues. We only require the...

BACKGROUND The effective implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) depends critically on the extent to which the strategies that are deployed for implementing the guidelines promote provider acceptance of CPGs. Such implementation strategies can be classified into two types based on whether they primarily target providers (e.g., academic detailing, grand rounds presentations) or the...

Over the years, many variants, extensions and adaptations of local search techniques have appeared in the literature. Some of them have become extremely famous, such as Simulated Annealing. Other ones have almost been forgotten, for example, “Record-toRecord Travelling” (Dueck 1993) or the “Old Bachelor Acceptance Algorithm” (Hu et al. 1995). In this abstract, we are proposing another new local...

This study examined the psychological and behavioral correlates of three major coping strategies used by medically ill patients in dealing with their illness; namely, confrontation, avoidance, and acceptance-resignation. The subjects consisted of 223 male medical patients with a variety of life-threatening and chronic illnesses. Coping responses were measured by the Medical Coping Modes Questio...

In this paper, a dynamic humanoid with a stair case model is designed to achieve a dynamically stable stair climbing gait pattern, and sequences of stair climbing locomotion analysis (weight acceptance, pull up, forward continuance, foot clearance and foot placement) are presented. A suitable trajectory control strategy is developed for the lower limb’s joints (hips, knees, ankles) during stair...

Abstract Background Negative affect reliably predicts paranoid thoughts. Previous studies point to the importance of emotion regulation for thoughts but have not yet focused on effects acute increases and variability in strategy use. Methods We conducted an experience-sampling study one week a subclinical sample. Acute intensity use from measurement until next, between-strategy (i.e., standard ...

Cognitive reappraisal has been shown to be an effective strategy to regulate depressed mood in healthy and remitted depressed individuals. However, individuals currently suffering from a clinical depression often experience difficulties in utilizing this strategy. Therefore, the goal of this study was to examine whether the efficacy of explicit cognitive reappraisal in major depressive disorder...

from applied linguistic point of view, the fundamental question facing the language teachers, methodologists and course designers is which procedure is more effective in fl/sl: learning to use or using to learn? definitely, in order to be a competent language user, knowledge of language system is necessary, but it is not sufficient to be a successful language user. that is why there was a gradu...

BACKGROUND In a demand oriented health care system based on managed competition, health insurers have incentives to become prudent buyers of care on behalf of their enrolees. They are allowed to selectively contract care providers. This is supposed to stimulate competition between care providers and both increase the quality of care and contain costs in the health care system. However, health i...