561 research outputs found
846440_supp_mat – Supplemental material for Aromatherapy, massage and reflexology: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the perspectives from people with palliative care needs
No full textSupplemental material, 846440_supp_mat for Aromatherapy, massage and reflexology: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the perspectives from people with palliative care needs by Megan Armstrong, Kate Flemming, Nuriye Kupeli, Patrick Stone, Susie Wilkinson and Bridget Candy in Palliative Medicine</p
Supplementary_materials – Supplemental material for The effectiveness of aromatherapy, massage and reflexology in people with palliative care needs: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_materials for The effectiveness of aromatherapy, massage and reflexology in people with palliative care needs: A systematic review by Bridget Candy, Megan Armstrong, Kate Flemming, Nuriye Kupeli, Patrick Stone, Victoria Vickerstaff and Susie Wilkinson in Palliative Medicine</p
EAPC Researcher Awards 2016 – reflections on winning
No full textThis year the European Association for Palliative Care redesigned its Researcher Awards, formerly known as the Early Researcher Awards and now comprising three categories: Early Researcher, Clinical Impact and Post Doc. They were presented in June at the 9th EAPC World Research Congress in Dublin to Martin Loucka, Kirsten Wentlandt and Bridget Candy. Here the winners reflect on their careers so far, and tell us how they feel about receiving this recognition by the international palliative care community
Does current UK research address priorities in palliative and end-of-life care?
No full textThe Palliative and end of life care Priority Setting Partnership uncovered 83 unanswered research questions. Florence Todd Fordham, Bridget Candy, Stevie McMillan and Sabine Best show that, as current UK research starts to address some of these questions, UK open grant data have the potential to encourage collaboratio
sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163221122955 – Supplemental material for How best to capture the impact of complementary therapies in palliative care: A systematic review to identify and assess the appropriateness and validity of multi-domain tools
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-pmj-10.1177_02692163221122955 for How best to capture the impact of complementary therapies in palliative care: A systematic review to identify and assess the appropriateness and validity of multi-domain tools by Lucy Mitchinson, Christina Chu, Andrea Bruun, Ali-Rose Sisk, Megan Armstrong, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Nuriye Kupeli, Bridget Candy and Patrick Stone in Palliative Medicine</p
Candy packaging design visual stylistics transformation
No full textDiplomdarba tēma ir ‘’Saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformācija’’. Diplomdarba mērķis ir balstoties uz teorētiskajā daļā iegūtajām zināšanām un pētnieciskajā daļā iegūtajiem rezultātiem, veikt saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformāciju uzņēmumam ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’. Lai veiksmīgi realizētu darba autora izvirzīto mērķi, tika veikta saldumu iepakojumu dizainu analīze, intervijas un aptauja.
Pētījuma rezultātā tika secināts, ka kvalitatīvas saldumu iepakojuma dizaina izmaiņas pozitīvi ietekmē uzņēmuma kopējo tēlu un produkta konkurētspēju.
Radošajā darbā tikai veikta uzņēmuma ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’ saldumu iepakojuma dizaina vizuālās stilistikas transformācija. Kolekcija sastāv no piecām konfekšu kastēm, viena ievārījuma un vienas sulas.Importance of packaging design has changed a lot i n past hundred years. Packaging has its own life cycle what means that all the time evolution and progress has to happen, so packaging can fulfill functions.
Aim of diploma is to make candy packaging visual stylistics transformation for ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’ based on theoretical knowledg and research results. To reach the goal author did candy packaging design analysis, interviews and survey.
Conclusion of the research is that qualitative candy packaging design transformation positively affect company’s overall image and product competitiveness.
In creative part author made candy packaging design visual stylistics transformation for ‘’Dabīgs gardums’’. Collection contains of five candy boxes, one jam jar and one juice bottle
Laxatives for the management of constipation in palliative care patients
No full textBackground: constipation is a common problem for palliative care patients which can generate considerable suffering for patients due to both the unpleasant physical symptoms and psychological preoccupations that can arise. There is uncertainty about the 'best' management of constipation in palliative care patients and variation in practice between palliative care settings.Objectives: to determine the effectiveness of laxative administration for the management of constipation in palliative care patients, and the differential efficacy of the laxatives used to manage constipation.Search strategy: we searched The Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (The Cochrane Library Issue four, 2005), MEDLINE (1966 to January 2005), EMBASE (1980 to January 2005), CANCERLIT, PUBMED, Science Citation Index, CINAHL, The Cochrane Library, SIGLE, NTIS, DHSS-DATA, Dissertation Abstracts, Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings and NHS-NRR and reference lists of articles.Selection criteria: randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing laxatives for constipation in palliative care patients.Data collection and analysis: two review authors independently assessed trial quality and extracted patient-reported data measuring changes in stool frequency and ease of passing stools, using objective and validated scales. Tolerance or adverse effects of laxatives used were also sought. The appropriateness of synthesizing data from the controlled trials depended upon the clinical and statistical homogeneity of studies identified. If the controlled trials were homogeneous, a meta-analysis would be attempted.Main results: four trials involving 280 people were included. Between these trials, the laxatives lactulose; senna; danthron combined with poloxamer (Co-danthramer); Misrakasneham; magnesium hydroxide combined with liquid paraffin (Milpar) were evaluated. All four trials included number and frequency of bowel movements and relative ease of defecation as part of the assessment of laxative efficacy. All of the laxatives demonstrated a limited level of efficacy, although a significant number of participants required rescue laxatives in each of the studies. The only significantly different treatments were in the trial where lactulose plus senna were more effective than danthron combined with poloxamer. Patient preference did not favour either treatment option. Other related systematic reviews have similarly identified that there is a lack of evidence to support the use of one laxative, or combination of laxatives, over another.Authirs' conclusions: the treatment of constipation in palliative care is based on inadequate experimental evidence, such that there are insufficient RCT data. Recommendations for laxative use can be related to costs as much as to efficacy. There have been few comparative studies, equally there have been few direct comparisons between different classes of laxative and between different combinations of laxatives. There persists an uncertainty about the 'best' management of constipation in this group of patient
Candy elasticity: Halloween experiments on public political statements
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the DOI in this record.We conducted experiments during trick-or-treating on Halloween in a predominantly liberal neighborhood in the weeks preceding the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. We decorated one side of a house porch with McCain material in 2008 (Romney material in 2012) and the other side with Obama material. Children were asked to choose a side, with half receiving the same candy on either side and half receiving more candy to go to the McCain/Romney side. This yields a “candy elasticity” of children's political support. Results vary by age: children ages nine and older were two to three times more likely to choose the Republican candidate when offered double candy for voting Republican compared to when offered equal candy, whereas children ages eight and under were particularly sticky and did not waver in their choice of candidate despite the offer of double candy
Berriasian oceans self-consistent spatial discretization mesh
No full text<p>Berriasian oceans<br>
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<p>An unstructured mesh spatial discretisation of the global oceans of the Early Cretaceous Berriasian age.</p>
<p>This is stored in an unstructured VTU file defined by the visualisation toolkit VTK [2].</p>
<p>A state PVSM file for Paraview [3] is also provided to reproduce visualisations shown in [1]. Note that Paraview requires absolute pathnames, so it may be necessary to edit file references to the VTU file in this state file.</p>
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<p>BerriasianOceans.vtu<br>
BerriasianOceans.pvsm</p>
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<p>Dr Adam S. Candy <[email protected]>, <[email protected]></p>
<p>Technische Universiteit Delft<br>
Imperial College London</p>
<p>References<br>
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<p>[1] Candy, A.S., 2016. A consistent approach to unstructured mesh generation for geophysical models. In review. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08491.</p>
<p>[2] The Visualization Toolkit (VTK), version 5.10.1. URL: http://www.vtk.org.</p>
<p>[3] Paraview, version 4.3.1. https://www.paraview.org.</p>
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