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To generate a descriptive theory framework regarding the experiences of sleep disturbances among perimenopausal women in Taiwan. |
BACKGROUND |
Although studies show that some perimenopausal women are troubled by sleep problems, little information was found about the subjective experiences of sleep disturbances among these women. Research is required to explore women's feelings or perceptions in dealing with their sleep problems. These understandings will be i... |
DESIGN |
A grounded theory research design was applied. |
METHOD |
Twenty-one Taiwanese sleep disturbed women, aged 46-57 years, participated in in-depth interviews. |
RESULTS |
'Getting back a good night's sleep' was the core theme for describing and guiding the process of the women's sleep disturbance experiences. During the process, 'disturbed sleep' was identified as the antecedent condition that included subcategories: easy awakening, difficulty falling asleep, inner worries, physical dis... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Women expected to relieve their sleep disturbance by finding comprehensive counselling or by their body constitution responding to treatment. Healthcare providers need to value women's individual concerns and subjective voices. Providers must seek out sleep counselling instead of simply prescribing drugs for their slee... |
RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE |
It is crucial to integrate perimenopausal sleep care by implementing a multidimensional approach such as sleep assessment laboratories, sleep counselling, complementary alternative medicine, sleep strategies and support groups.The Sandyford Initiative: creating added value to health and health care. |
The Sandyford Initiative in Glasgow brings together Family Planning, Genitourinary Medicine and the Centre for Women's Health in a new partnership which aims to provide integrated health and social care in a manner which reflects a social model of health. The Steve Retson Project for Gay Men's Sexual Health is also sit... |
Education schemes for technologists of radiology and nuclear medicine (NM) (radiographers) considerably differ in particular countries, even in the European Union. Increasingly more often university-based technologist training is undertaken, but there is no international harmonisation of curricula and the international... |
Abstract Background: Environmental pollution can be one of the main risk factors for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Aim: To study the relationship between air pollution, outdoor temperature and exacerbations of COPD. Materials and methods: COPD patients (n=1432) were followed up fo... |
The development of novel nanomaterials with unique physico-chemical properties is increasing at a rapid rate, with potential applications across a broad range of manufacturing industries and consumer products. Nanomaterial safety is therefore becoming an increasingly contentious issue that has intensified over the past... |
Does religion lead to greater destructiveness from suicide terrorism? And if so, how does it influence this form of political violence? Recent analyses of terrorism point to the significance of religion, but are divided as to whether religion itself matters, or certain types of religious terrorist groups are actually d... |
Privacy is defined as “freedom from unauthorized intrusion”. While privacy has been a sensitive issue before the advent of computers, the concern has been further exacerbated by the fact that the Web makes it easy for data to be automatically collected and added to databases and analyzed by sophisticated data mining to... |
HfO2 based ferroelectrics are lead-free, simple binary oxides with nonperovskite structure and low permittivity. They just recently started attracting attention of theoretical groups in the fields of ferroelectric memories and electrostatic supercapacitors. A modified approach of harmonic analysis is introduced for tem... |
In an idealized framework, we assess reconstructions of the climate state of the southern hemisphere during the past 150 years using the climate model of intermediate complexity LOVECLIM and three data-assimilation methods: a nudging, a particle filter with sequential importance resampling, and an extremely efficient p... |
We have determined the variations in the emission measure of the solar corona using EUV Imaging Telescope/Solar and Heliospheric Observatory observations of iron lines in a quiet region of the Sun. The emission measure is found to vary significantly in at least 85% of all the pixels within 42 minutes. The variations ar... |
During the design and realization processes of an indoor work environment there is the need to guarantee to the future occupants adequate health and wellbeing conditions. Both conditions are strictly related to the human perception of the environment, and depends on four basic factors: thermal environment, lighting, ac... |
A method has been developed for the determination of the anthelmintics fenbendazole and oxfendazole in liver and muscle samples using liquid chromatography-thermospray mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The samples were homogenized with water, sonicated with methanol and centrifuged. The supernatants were washed with light pet... |
Dielectric constant and loss are measured at 4.0 GHz for dilut solutions of two substituted ethanes (viz. 1.1-Dichloro-1-Nitroethane and 1,1,2,2-Tetrabromoethane) over a wide range of viscosity using benzene+nujol as a solvent and at the temperatures of 35, 45, 55 and 65°C. The viscoelastic relaxation time is determine... |
A stratified random sample of articles about the debate from 29 January 2003, to 18 February 2003, leading up to the US–Iraq conflict was selected from six news agencies – AP, Agence France Presse, Reuters, Xinhua, ITAR-TASS and Inter Press Service. US official sources were cited most frequently by all agencies except ... |
The objective of this study was the validation of a developed spectrophotometric method in order to determine loratadine, a miscellaneous and "nonsedating" antihistamine agent. Loratadine and potassium tetraiodomercuriate form a macromolecule which can be detected by molecular absorption spectrometry in well- determine... |
In 1935, a terrible disease was spreading wantonly in some rural areas of Heilongjiang province in northeastern China. Women of childbearing age and children were its primary victims. Particularly cruel, the disease frequently occurred without warning and led to the death of a large number of people. At the time, nobod... |
BACKGROUND |
Dairy product intake may be inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes, but the evidence is inconclusive for total dairy products and sparse for types of dairy products. |
OBJECTIVE |
The objective was to investigate the prospective association of total dairy products and different dairy subtypes with incidence of diabetes in populations with marked variation of intake of these food groups. |
DESIGN |
A nested case-cohort within 8 European countries of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study (n = 340,234; 3.99 million person-years of follow-up) included a random subcohort (n = 16,835) and incident diabetes cases (n = 12,403). Baseline dairy product intake was assessed by using dietary ... |
RESULTS |
Intake of total dairy products was not associated with diabetes (HR for the comparison of the highest with the lowest quintile of total dairy products: 1.01; 95% CI: 0.83, 1.34; P-trend = 0.92) in an analysis adjusted for age, sex, BMI, diabetes risk factors, education, and dietary factors. Of the dairy subtypes, chees... |
CONCLUSIONS |
This large prospective study found no association between total dairy product intake and diabetes risk. An inverse association of cheese intake and combined fermented dairy product intake with diabetes is suggested, which merits further study.Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Non-Equidistant Discretization Time G... |
This study deals with an automated crane control with load sway suppression, which is highly required due to the shortage of skilled operators and the improvement of the workspace safety. Most approaches in literature rely on a separate design of a trajectory generation and an underlying tracking controller. In this pa... |
Corner detection and feature extraction are essential aspects of computer vision problems such as object recognition and tracking. Feature detectors such as Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) yields high quality features but computationally intensive for use in real-time applications. The Features from Accelerate... |
Abstract. We demonstrate that high-resolution 557.7-nm all-sky images are useful tools for investigating the spatial and temporal evolution of merging on the dayside magnetopause. Analysis of ground and satellite measurements leads us to conclude that high-latitude merging events can occur at multiple sites simultaneou... |
In this paper we study the regional pattern of municipal business property tax rates in the province of British Columbia. Reduced-form tax-setting equations produce some evidence that municipal governments respond to tax changes in neighbouring jurisdictions. A joint investigation of the determinants of tax base and mu... |
Building a successful mobile money system requires a complex ecosystem of players handling a large volume of transactions. This paper identifies four principal paths to building mobile money ecosystems; makes the case that countries should adopt regulatory frameworks that allow for any or all of these models to emerge;... |
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) stimulates bone resorption as well as bone formation in vivo and in organ culture. The catabolic actions of PTH have been recognized in patients with hyperparathyroidism, or with acute infusion of the N-terminal 1-34 fragment of human PTH (hPTH1-34). Whereas the anabolic actions of daily injec... |
In reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), maintenance policies are made not only through analyzing failure mode but also considering the relationship of performance, economic and maintenance policy. RCM is becoming a preferred popular maintenance analysis method for complex system. Traditional RCM lacks of quantificat... |
The Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA's) controversial new regulations for physical and chemical restraints and seclusion went into effect Aug. 2. Many EDs already are out of compliance with the new regulations. Behavioral health standards now will apply in some cases instead of medical/surgical standards. A... |
Objective Asian‐Indian women are a growing population in the United States, but little data exist about their risk of cesarean delivery (CD). We characterize the odds of CD among Asian‐Indian women and determine whether neonatal birth weight modifies this relationship. Study Design This is a retrospective cohort study ... |
Despite the increase in scholarship on social entrepreneurship over the years, there is a lack of large-scale empirical research from which generalizations about social entrepreneurs can be made. As such, our understanding of these individuals is limited. In particular, we know little about the drivers motivating socia... |
The recent years in the PV industry have been marked with a severe imbalance of manufacturing capacities and demand, which led to abrupt market shocks and end-product price volatility. Moreover, the Chinese fast-follower producers managed to grasp the significant competitive advantages, both, in terms of scale and tech... |
The use of flying platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly known as drones, is rapidly growing. UAVs can greatly support data collecting and processing for Internet of Things devices (IoTDs) in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems due to their advantages of high environmental flexibility. This paper ... |
A liquid chromatographic tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) assay was developed and validated to determine valproic acid in human plasma. The method involved a solid-phase extraction of valproic acid and betamethasone valerate, an internal standard, from plasma and detection using an LC-MS/MS system with electrospray... |
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