The use of humour in diversional therapy

Humour is a natural phenomenon that every human being possesses. But humour is often not fully utilized and often taken for granted. It is only recently that there has been an upsurge in research in the area of humour that has began to highlight and prove the many benefits that come from its effective utilization. Although humour is a natural phenomenon, there are times in our lives when humour needs to be formally initiated such as in times of illness. Diversional Therapists because of the nature of their work, have ample opportunities to initiate humour. Humour is one of the many tools diversional therapists can use to increase the effectiveness of their activities programmes. This paper examines the definitions of humour and laughter, the beneficial functions of humour, why the use of humour is important in diversional therapy practice and the applications of humour in practice. The paper aims to give diversional therapists background information about humour, highlight the many benefits of humour and give some practical ideas of how humour can be formally incorporated into their diversional therapy programmes. It is envisaged that this paper will increase diversional therapists knowledge of humour, encourage the use of formal humour programmes with clients and encourage diversional therapists to research the various ways of using humour in their practice

Manual blood exchange transfusion does not significantly contribute to parasite clearance in artesunate-treated individuals with imported severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria

Background: Exchange transfusion (ET) has remained a controversial adjunct therapy for the treatment of severe malaria. In order to assess the relative contribution of ET to parasite clearance in severe malaria, all patients receiving ET as an adjunct treatment to parenteral quinine or to artesunate were compared with patients treated with parenteral treatment with quinine or artesunate but who did not receive ET. ET was executed using a standardized manual isovolumetric exchange protocol. Methods. All patients in the Rotterdam Malaria Cohort treated for severe P. falciparum malaria at the Institute for Tropical Diseases of the Harbour Hospital between 1999 and 2011 were included in this retrospective follow-up study. Both a two-stage approach and a log-linear mixed model approach were used to estimate parasite clearance times

Workshop: Praktijklessen uit de Krimpenerwaard Triade : adviezen voor de verdere ontwikkeling en toepassing van de Triade als methode voor locatiespecifieke ecologische risicobeoordeling van bodemverontreiniging

De Triade geldt als een geaccepteerd instrument om de effecten van bodemverontreiniging op het bodemecosysteem te meten. In dit rapport zijn adviezen verwoord voor de verdere ontwikkeling en toepassing van de Triade, als methode om ecologische risico's van bodemverontreiniging te bepalen. Zij zijn gebaseerd op de ervaringen uit het Krimpenerwaard project en de discussies gevoerd in de workshop "Praktijkervaringen met de Krimpenerwaard Triade" op 12 september 200

Determination of flow curves under equibiaxial stress conditions

Three experimental methods have been used to establish flow curves for a low carbon steel under biaxial stress conditions: the hydraulic bulge test, the stack compression test and the biaxial tensile test. The individual tests are discussed and the results for a DC06 IF steel grade compared. Initially the results appear to be different but after compensation for strain rate and temperature the static hardening curves are coinciding

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Workshop: Praktijklessen uit de Krimpenerwaard Triade : adviezen voor de verdere ontwikkeling en toepassing van de Triade als methode voor locatiespecifieke ecologische risicobeoordeling van bodemverontreiniging

De Triade geldt als een geaccepteerd instrument om de effecten van bodemverontreiniging op het bodemecosysteem te meten. In dit rapport zijn adviezen verwoord voor de verdere ontwikkeling en toepassing van de Triade, als methode om ecologische risico's van bodemverontreiniging te bepalen. Zij zijn gebaseerd op de ervaringen uit het Krimpenerwaard project en de discussies gevoerd in de workshop "Praktijkervaringen met de Krimpenerwaard Triade" op 12 september 200

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L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) is a strong predictor for locoregional recurrences in cervical cancer

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