BACKGROUND Oncology providers frequently underestimate the incidence of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), and patients often are reluctant to report symptoms. Inadequate patient-provider communication is a significant barrier to optimal management of this debilitating toxicity. METHODS The author reviews relevant published data and methods to optimize the clinical care of patie...

Administered commodity price schemes in developing countries have proved ineffective in raising farmers’ incomes and price stabilisation through futures markets is increasingly advocated as the alternative policy objective. A potential difficulty is that farmers tend not to hedge extensively, even in developed countries where access to futures markets is long established. Explanations for this ...

Inadequate information is available on how newborn babies and infants handle drugs, due to a large extent to the many ethical, financial and practical issues which discourage drug trials in neonates. The reluctance of drug companies to license neonatal drugs has been highlighted recently in the media. Such reticence is not surprising as the commonly used drugs in neonates have been around for a...

Collaborative empiricism, one of the main tenets of cognitive behavior therapy, could encounter conceptual and practical problems when applied to culturally sensitive settings. This paper sets out to discuss issues in applying collaborative empiricism to Chinese patients, taking into account a number of cultural determinants such as collectivism, hierarchical perception, passivity, reticence, a...

Hannah Arendt insists that we are morally responsible for our actions, even when we are part of a victimized group. Our reticence to judge those who choose "the lesser evil" under duress, she argues, is rooted in our suspicion that we are not free agents. In this paper I consider Arendt's claims in the context of the ongoing crisis in Israel and Palestine. Given the egregious, intractable natur...

Although research indicates e-commerce offers viable and practical solutions for organizations to meet challenges of a predominantly changing environment, the few available studies related to SMEs in developing countries reveal a delay or failure of SMEs in adopting ICT and e-commerce technologies. The various factors identified as causes for the reticence can be broadly classified as Internal ...

themselves and with industry is worthy of consideration. Compulsion by meticulous enforcement of legislation may lead to reticence on the part of certain managements to provide welfare measures. This may also lead in certain instances to failure to cooperate with official agencies. An important approach is to stimulate the concept of promotion of industrial welfare and health, irrespective of l...

The Australian government has stated its intention to develop a National Men’s Health Policy (NMHP) in 2009. This policy (we are told) will focus on reducing the barriers men experience in accessing health services, tackling widespread reticence among men to seek treatment, improving male-friendly health services, and raising awareness of preventable health problems that affect men.1 The Consul...

This article reviews Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory as one of the current frameworks in the study of learning and teaching processes. Arguing that learners’ interaction is vital for language learning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms and that the teacher’s perceptions and expectations can foster or discourage this interaction, the article shows how the sociocultural model of le...

Love is a universal emotion and phenomenon. Despite its importance, this concept has notbeen the focus of studies in language education, with few exceptions. This reticence anduneasiness researching love academia education considered to be related tomisconceptions about that equate it only intimate relationships family matters(PATIENCE, 2008), as well exclusively romantic (VINCENT, 2010). In pa...