BACKGROUND Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) commonly presents after peritoneal dialysis has been stopped, either post-transplantation (PT-EPS) or after switching to hemodialysis (classical EPS, cEPS). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether PT-EPS and cEPS differ in morphology and clinical course. METHODS In this European multicenter study we included fifty-six EPS pat...

The title compounds, (N-methyl-N-phenyl-amino)(N-methyl-N-phenyl-car-bam-oyl)sulfide, C15H16N2OS, (I), and (N-methyl-N-phenyl-amino)-(N-methyl-N-phenyl-carbamo-yl)disulfane, C15H16N2OS2, (II), are stable derivatives of (chloro-carbon-yl)sulfenyl chloride and (chloro-carbon-yl)disulfanyl chloride, respectively. The torsion angle about the S-S bond in (II) is -92.62 (6)°, which is close to the th...

BACKGROUND Both non-governmental organisations and governmental organisations are very involved in the development and implementation of community empowerment programmes (CEPs). Because of various health issues within the community, 10 CEPs were launched in Ladysmith with a focus on addressing the particular needs of HIV-affected and -infected members. Of the 10 programmes, however, only four w...

T. VAN OIJEN*, M. A. VAN LEEUWE, E. GRANUM, F. J. WEISSING, R. G. J. BELLERBY, W. W. C. GIESKES AND H. J. W. DE BAAR 1 DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY, CEES, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, PO BOX 14, 9750 AA HAREN, THE NETHERLANDS, DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL AND PLANT SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD, SHEFFIELD S10 2TN, UK, THEORETICAL BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, PO BOX 14, 9750 AA HAREN, THE NETHERLAN...

This study examines whether health inequalities exist between lone and cohabiting mothers across Europe, and how these may differ by welfare regime. Data from the European Social Survey were used to compare self-rated general health, limiting long-standing illness and depressive feelings by means of a multi-level logistic regression. The 27 countries included in the analyses are classified into...

HIGHLIGHTS Since the geopolitical developments of 1989, former centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe followed distinctively different pathways in national pharmaceutical expenditure evolution as compared to their free market Western European counterparts.Long term spending on pharmaceuticals expressed as percentage of total health expenditure was falling in free market economies as of 1...

The Occlusion Dose Monitor was first made by Allistair Fielder and Merrick Moseley in the early ninetees (Fielder et al., 1995) and miniaturized, following a suggestion by Paul van der Maas, the initiator of the RAMSES birth-cohort study on vision sceening (Groenewoud et al., 2010), by Cees Romijn and other electrotechnicians at the Academical Medical Center in Amsterdam in 1996 and 1997 (Simon...

Changes in the market conditions for fruit and vegetables have induced Dutch co-operative auctions to restructure their sales and marketing activities. Nine auctions merged into VTN and established the marketing organisation The Greenery International BV. VTN/The Greenery have encountered many problems in their first years of operation. Part of these problems can be explained by the lack of org...

Objective: There is an extensive corpus of knowledge about how misinformation may distort autobiographical memories. A diagnostic error can be conceptualised as a form of misinformation. Methods: The authors discuss the case of a 58-year-old woman who was given a misdiagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Results: The patient was deeply convinced that the diagnosis was correct, even when she was conf...

Choice is viewed as a derived, not a primitive, concept. Individual gambles are assigned subjective certainty equivalents (CE1); the choice set X has an associated reference level [RL(X)] based on the CEls of its members; the outcomes of each gamble are recoded as deviations from the RL(X); and new CEes are constructed. The gamble having the largest CE2 is chosen. The CEs are described by the r...