Review of psychological interventions in patients with cancer.

Objective: Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world and also causes morbidity and deterioration in the mental health of patients and their caregivers. The most commonly reported psychological symptoms include anxiety, depression, and the fear of recurrence. The purpose of this narrative review is to elaborate and discuss the effectiveness of the different interventions employed and their utilities in clinical practice.

Quantum semantics of text perception.

The paper presents quantum model of subjective text perception based on binary cognitive distinctions corresponding to words of natural language. The result of perception is quantum cognitive state represented by vector in the qubit Hilbert space. Complex-valued structure of the quantum state space extends the standard vector-based approach to semantics, allowing to account for subjective dimension of human perception in which the result is constrained, but not fully predetermined by input information.

[Disturbed absorptive function of small intestines in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

The study included 93 patients (mean age 56.8+/-7.2) with COPD; 22 presented with grade 1 COPD, 36 and 35 with grade II and 111 COPD respectively.

[Trophologic insufficiency and absorptive function of small intestine in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease].

The study included 93 patients with grade 1-3 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the stable clinical phase. Absorptive function of the small intestine was evaluated by biochemical methods and with the use of radionuclides; plasma tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) levels were measured by an enzyme immune-assay. Trophologic status in 44% of the patients with COPD was unaltered whereas 14% had an excessive body weight.

[Activity of systemic inflammatory reaction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in regard to small intestinal absorption function].

Aim: To study the effect of systemic inflammatory reaction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in association with absorption of the small intestine.

Material And Methods: Small intestinal absorption was studied in 93 COPD patients (22, 36 and 35 patients at stage I, II and III, respectively) in a clinically stable stage of the disease and in 35 healthy controls. The absorption was investigated biochemically and with application of radionuclide methods, blood concentration of TNF alpha was measured with enzyme immunoassay.