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Shopping contributes largely to how people feel part of and enjoy KDTMs (Khu Do Thi Moi - new urban areas) - the carefully planned new sites, well provided with infrastructure, and very attractive of Hanoi in the market economy. Among the three facilities that are rated as most important by KDTM's residents - education, health care, and shopping, the third is considered a pure civil space. This space clearly reflects the changes of politico-economic context and decision-making actors. Participation of the private sector in the newly formed market economy after a long period under State-run subvention and the consumerism entailed various ways to develop neighborhood-level commercial facilities. This paper aims to analyze and discuss on: firstly, the neighborhood-level commercial facilities have 'promptly' updated the changes in Vietnam's political-economic; secondly, the classify of KDTMs has resulted in a corresponding differentiation of commercial facilities according to the will of the project owners and the target consumer-resident; finally, facing the global 'death' of shopping malls, the KDTMs malls are trying to find themselves a new 'vitality': they are being 'publicized' to (re)create the third places in KDTM, that encourage social interaction in the limited spaces - intersperse public and private practices.

Purposes:We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study to evaluate the knowledge and practices of fall prevention among nurses in four departments in 7A Military Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Subjects and methods:Sixty-two nurses in four departments were chosen to fulfill pre-designed questionnaires, and their daily fall preventive practices were observed. Results:There were 40.3% of nurses achieve good knowledge of fall prevention.In practice, 22.5% of nurses had proper compliance, and 77.4% had not. 82.3% of nurses claimed to update fall prevention knowledge often, and 87.1% demanded training for fall prevention. Nurses in the surgical department group had more knowledge of fall prevention than nurses in the internal medicine group of departments (68.7% vs. 10.0%, p<0.05). Female nurses had higher fall risk compliances than males (78.3% vs. 37.5%, P<0.05). Conclusion:Training for nurses in fall preventive knowledge and practices are needed in 7A Military Hospital. Keywords:fall preventive; nurses; questionnaires; risk compliances.

Surveying 60 Vietnamese patients with either current or past post-traumatic stress disorder, this article aims to phenomenologically characterize the syndrome of `hit by the wind' in a multidimensional manner. This includes determining the patient conceptualization of the disorder, profiling `hit by the wind' episodes suffered by patients in the previous month, and presenting case vignettes. Eighteen of the 60 patients (30%) suffered at least one episode of `hit by the wind' in the last month; all 18 patients had at least one episode of `hit by the wind' in the last month that met panic attack criteria. For the 18 patients, 33 episodes of `hit by the wind' that met panic attack criteria were experienced in the previous month. For these 33 episodes, the most frequently reported DSM-IV panic attack symptoms were chills (100%; 33/33) and dizziness (88%; 29/33). Flashbacks played a role in the `hit by the wind' episodes for 5 of the 18 patients (28%). In the discussion, a model of how the syndrome of `hit by the wind' generates panic is adduced; also, possible Chinese origins of the disorder are discussed.

This article presents a design and commissioning of a multiphase flow loop, which was developed for scrutinizing the partial phase separation characteristics of pipe Tees. Its length is 9m and its primary diameter is 0.078m (3 inches). For the ease of modification, its design was kept modular, so that it could be used for testing various other pipe profiles. To validate this flow loop, the separation of a stratified-wavy flow was tested in a regular diameter ratio pipe Tee, and the gathered results were compared with previously published data. A good agreement was observed between the two data sources, which suggests that this flow loop is suitable for a further experimentation.

Viewed historically and cross-culturally, orthostatic-induced dizziness, i.e., dizziness caused by standing up from a sitting or a lying position, forms a key aspect of many syndromes: irritable heart (American Civil War), effort syndrome (World War I and World War II), chronic fatigue syndrome (contemporary USA), Gulf War syndrome (contemporary USA), and orthostatic dysregulation (contemporary Japan). Among Vietnamese refugees attending a psychiatric clinic, this study documents a high rate of orthostatic panic (OP), as well as certain processes seemingly generating these panic attacks, viz., flashbacks and culturally specific catastrophic cognitions. Case examples are used to demonstrate OP's phenomenology and relevance to clinical care. To illustrate the mechanisms producing OP, we adduce the multiplex model of panic generation. Culturally appropriate care of Vietnamese refugees should include assessment and treatment of OP.

Gesundheitsbelastungen infolge von Bewegungsmangel stehen im Zusammenhang mit der Stadtentwicklung der letzten Jahrzehnte und gehen einher mit inaktiven Lebensweisen. Gehen ist die umweltfreundlichste Fortbewegungsart, es ist sozialverträglich, d.h. unabhängig von sozialer Stellung, Alter oder finanziellen Möglichkeiten für fast alle Menschen machbar - und zugleich gesund. Das Konzept der Walkability zielt aus Planungssicht daher auf eine bewegungsanimierende gebaute Umwelt. Zunehmend wird erkannt, dass Walkability in den letzten Jahren ein wichtiges Thema im Bereich Planung, Städtebau und Gesundheit geworden ist, da die gebaute Umwelt bestimmte Verhaltensweisen beeinflusst. Aus der Praxis werden konkretere Anleitungen gefordert, welche städtebaulichen Merkmale zu erfassen oder anzuwenden sind, um die Walkability zu bewerten oder bewegungsfreundliche Städte zu schaffen. Die Messung von Merkmalen der gebauten Umwelt nimmt in diesem Zusammenhang eine besondere Rolle ein, aber auch die Frage, wie die Forschungsergebnisse Politik und Planungs- und Baupraxis erreichen.