Abstract Background Presenteeism among nurses is the common behaviour of being physically present at work when one should not be due to personal health and well-being, a stressful environment, lack work–life balance, or sense professional identity obligation. Aims To explore nurses’ decision-making process related presenteeism in large Hong Kong public hospital. Methods As part larger study on ...

Aetiology confronts two distinct issues: the determinants of individual cases, and the determinants of incidence rate. If exposure to a necessary agent is homogeneous within a population, then case/control and cohort methods will fail to detect it: they will only identify markers of susceptibility. The corresponding strategies in control are the 'high-risk' approach, which seeks to protect susc...

Vitamins Vitamins A, D and E are important for finish ing lambs and usually need to be supplemented in finishing ra tions (Table 3). Including these in the ration is fairly easy; however, some studies indi cate that injecting these into lambs upon receiv ing is more advantageous than day-to-day vitamin supplementation. Water soluble vita mins (B vita mins) usually are not needed unless lambs ar...

. e Marquess of Lothian, Baroness Swanjj?r?ugh, Lord Strabolgi, Lord Wellsestell, and Lord Taylor, who summed the debate. Baroness Elliot referred q? the N.A.M.H., saying that it was "an r?anisation which, I think, has done ?re from day to day, and with ordinary e?Ple, to care for the mentally sick than y other organisation which I know." (toUSE OF COMMONS une 1965 to'8th. Mr. Kenneth Robinson,...

BACKGROUND Norovirus is increasingly being recognized as a leading cause of foodborne disease. Nevertheless, well documented foodborne outbreaks due to norovirus are rarely found in the literature. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study was conducted for identifying the source of a gastroenteritis outbreak. A total of 325 persons were identified as the at risk group. RESULTS The ...

The patient, a boy aged 9, was admitted to the children's ward at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in March, 1956, as a case of suspected acute appendicitis. Three days earlier he had complained of feeling sick and giddy and also had some central abdominal pain. He vomited several times that day and during the next two days and the pain persisted. The day before admission he passed several loose st...

This paper addresses two issues that concern the electricity market participants under European day-ahead (DAM) framework, namely feasibility of attained schedules and non-confiscation cleared volumes. To address first issue, new resource-specific orders, i.e., thermal orders for generating units, demand response load responsive resources, energy limited storage are proposed incorporated in exi...

background: qt dispersion (qtd) especially after ischemic heart disease and myocardial infarction is a prognostic predictor of mortality, in adult medicine.   objective: this study was undertaken to determine the correlation between qt dispersion and neonatal stress. neonates were divided into 3 groups: normal term (30 cases), normal preterm (30 cases) and sick neonates (36 cases), born between...