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Background:Admission of a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the recovery process may be stressful for family members.Objectives:This study aimed to explore the families’ psychological symptoms and their evolution over the 1st week of patients’ ICU stay. Additional objectives were the estimation of the families’ need for support and the estimation of satisfaction regarding the information provided by ICU physicians.Methods:A total of 108 individuals were participated in the study. Participants were interviewed with the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale and filled the Beck Depression Scale II on days 1 and 7 of patients’ ICU admission. They also filled a self-reported questionnaire which was created by the investigators, involving decision-making procedures; the satisfaction of the families of the patients’ care; and the support of the families by medical and nursing staff.Results:Anxiety levels were not significantly different among 2-time points, whereas rates of depressive symptoms raised significantly from 38% (day 1) to 58.3% (day 7). In cases of anxiety changes, age, education, closeness of relationship, and APACHE II score were the factors been associated. Changes in depressive symptoms were not associated with any of those factors. Over a week, there were significant differences in relatives’ views on participating in the decision-making procedure, and on expressing their opinion and concerns regarding the treatment process. Their attitudes about receiving support by the ICU personnel and even by mental health specialists, such as psychologists also changed.Conclusions:Over the 1st week of ICU admission, depressive symptoms in patients’ relatives were gradually evolving, while anxiety symptoms fluctuated and they were affected by the severity of the patients’ condition. Attitudes toward treatment procedures and the perceived need for support also changed. These findings should be taken into account by the ICU personnel.

The "model independent" part of the order a radiative correction due to virtual photon exchanges and inner bremsstrahlung is studied for semileptonic decays of hyperons. Numerical results of high accuracy are given for the rela tive correction to the branching ratio, the electron energy spectrum and the (Ee ,Ef) Dalitz distribution in case of four different decays: I" •> n e v , l~-* ■ Aev,-* • Aev and Л-* • pev. АННОТАЦИЯ Изучена "независимая от модели" часть радиационных поправок в порядке а, которая соответствует обмену виртуальных фотонов и тормозного излучения. Для распадов Е-*nev, £-* ■ Aev, = Aev и Л-* • pev получены точные численные резуль таты для поправок к "branching ratio", спектру энергии электронов и диаграмме Далица (Е£ , E f). KIVONAT A virtuális foton csere és fékezési sugárzás következtében fellépő a ren di! sugárzási korrekciók "modell független" részét tanulmányozzuk hyperonok szemileptonos bomlásaiban. Nagy pontosságú numerikus eredményeket adunk a l~-* ■ nev, l~ ■ * Aev, =" ■ + r^eV és A ■ + pev bomlások esetén az elágazási arány, az elektron energia spektrum és az (Ee ,Ef) Dalitz eloszlás relativ korrekci óira .

PMQRs compromised the bactericidal activity of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin when expressed in Enterobactercloacae, S. maltophilia or Klebsiellapneumoniae and when more than one co-existed. PMQR determinants represent an unrecognized threat, capable to compromise the in vitro activity of quinolones if expressed in a favourable genetic environment and to favour selection of resistant mutants by widening the mutant selection window of these agents.

Improved MCRG methods are used to determine the ~ function of the two-dimensional 0(3) standard action o modeL We argue that the previously observed anomalous behavior of the mass gap can be understood as a general scaling behavior according to the full # function.

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