... seemed on the point of bursting with an excess of dignity. These were the chief incidents ofthe winter, though there were many others of less consequence that served to keep the boys in a delightful ... flowered-chintz curtains and mountainous eiderdown coverings which swelled up toward the ceiling. In the middle ofthe wall, opposite the windows, a big iron stove, like the one inthe sitting-room ... with their boat-hooks, the one attacking and the other defending himself with great dexterity. They scarcely perceived, in their excitement, that the current was dragging them slowly toward the...
... servants, instead of private institutions, and held out faithfully to the end, cooking the rations away inthe rear, and at the risk oflife carrying them to the line of battle to their "young ... self-denying affection the soldiers inthe field.Not the least among the comforts oflifein winter quarters, was the pleasure of sitting under the ministrations of an amateur barber, and hearing the ... without, in either case, exposing themselves to almost certain death. They are waiting for the line of battle to come totheir relief.At last, before they see, they hear the line advancing through the...
... the São Paulo State Secretary of Healthfor financing the fieldwork; to the Secre-tary of Health Surveillance ofthe Minis-try of Health for financial support in the data analysis through the ... strengthen-ing social relationships and support, aswell as the active participation ofthe el-derly inthe community so as to maintainor improve quality oflife (39). The present findings ... 224 individuals in Singapore, also using the SF-36đ(23). The present study found that the mostprevalent chronic diseases had a signifi-cant influence on the quality oflifeof the elderly individual....
... hisunconcern inthe face of such grave danger.Again he disappeared, and Katherine heard a rain of heavy blows beginning to fall upon the door; then with acracking, splitting noise the panel gave way, the ... against the corner ofthe house, and stuck there, banging, grinding, and jarring with the movements ofthe swirling water, and threatening to beat the house down like a battering ram. At the ... with the current to be a menace to the shipping anchored inthe river below. All day long, heedless ofthe pouring rain, the men had worked atgetting the boats free from their winter coating of...
... itchboard.Arranging the plugs and setting the switches in a certain way causes the machineto act in accordance with the instructions in Table 1. Other ways of setting up the ‘switchboard’ cause the machine ... table—programme—for carrying out the desired task onto the tape of the universal machine. The instructions are placed on the tape inthe form of a standard descrip-tion—i.e. inthe form of a string of letters ... method of record-keeping, whereby the universal machine additionally prints on the tape a second record of the binary digits printed by M. The universal machine does this by printing in frontof...
... fit neither of these ends, butthey may all the same have at least the function of mitigating the sensation of pain. Thereis experimental evidence indicating that, if the stimulation of other ... sensory input overall, behaviour patterns such asrubbing the bodily part injured, flexing the muscles, digging the nails into the palms, andscreaming have the function of reducing the intensity of ... confusion, since the distinction is in this language marked by the use of different verbs, ‘njuta’ inthe case of sensual enjoyment and ‘finna nöje i’ inthe case of taking enjoyment inthe pursuitof...
... counsellors were trained inthe administra-tion ofthe HRQoL instrument. The quality oflife question-naire was administered at each ofthe following scheduledvisits: screening, baseline, week 16, ... HIV-positive individuals beingenrolled onto HAART and increasing survival amongthese patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of HIV-infected individuals ... to the study included possible selection biasand information bias related to the use ofthe MOS-SF36instrument. The loss of up to 50% of patients, who hadincomplete HRQoL data, from the final...
... Given the non-normality ofthe sample, the Mann-Whitney test wasused for checking the difference in quality oflife in different cities, as well as for checking the difference in quality oflife ... role in improving quality of life, regardless ofthe HDI ranking and economic status of the city of residence.Author details1Department of Sports Science, Exercise and Health ofthe Trás-os-Montes ... si,indicators of quality of life, and that physical activity plays animportant role in i mprovi ng quality of life, regardless of the HDI-I economic indicator or HDI national rankingstatus of...
... contributionsINO participated inthe design ofthe study, the statistical analysis and the drafting ofthe manuscript. RR participated inthe statistical analysis and the drafting ofthe manuscript. ... participated inthe design ofthe study and the drafting ofthe manuscript. All authors read and approved the finalmanuscript.Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests.Received: ... has shown the valid ity ofthe basic principle in prescribing: the more appropriatemedication the better quality of life. Since drug quality is related to the patients’ quality of life, there is...
... RHparticipated inthe preparation and conduct ofthe study and the editing of the article. MEL participated inthe conduct ofthe study and the editing of the article. KHL participated inthe preparation ... preparation and conduct ofthe studyand the editing ofthe article. TvL participated inthe preparation andconduct ofthe study, the statistical analyses and the writing ofthe article.All authors ... personal interview (CAPI), a self-administered questionnaire, physical examination bytrained personal (including assessments of body weightand height) and blood sampling. The sampl e ofthe original...
... wrote the manuscript. MK, CB and GDB wereinvolved inthe planning ofthe design, the interpretation of the results and the writing ofthe manuscript. Allauthors read and approved the final manuscript.Acknowledgements The ... Guidelines - Meaning in Suffering Test. Berkeley(CA) , Institute of Logotherapy Press; 1985. 12. Warner SC, Williams JI: The Meaning inLife Scale: Determining the Reliability and Validity of ... borasio@med.uni-muenchen.de* Corresponding author AbstractBackground: The construct "meaning -in -life& quot; (MiL) has recently raised the interest of cliniciansworking in psycho-oncology and end -of -life care and...