báo cáo khoa học: " Accelerating harm reduction interventions to confront the HIV epidemic in the Western Pacific and Asia: the role of WHO (WPRO)" pot

... age of 18 years and shift to injecting very fast. Heroin is the main drug of injection; however, an increasing number of people use ATS as their main drug of choice. Rates of shar-ing of injection ... per-taining to health, and in preventing the transmission of HIV through injecting drug use (since there is no UNODCoffice in the Philippines). In conjunction with other UNagencies, WHO supports ... unexplored in terms of the healthconsequences of the misuse of illegal drugs.At present, the main objectives of the WPRO HIV/ AIDS and STI Unit in the field of harm reduction are to harmo-nize...

báo cáo khoa học: " Tobacco harm reduction: an alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers" potx

... for tobacco harm reduction, the substitution of safersources of nicotine, including tobacco products, by thosesmokers who are unable or unwilling to achieve nicotine and tobacco abstinence. In ... hemisphere, and the use of tobacco in smokeless forms (placed in the mouth or inhaled as a powder through the nose) predates the arrival and exploration of the West by Europeans.According to the historian ... Developments in tobacco cultivation, curing and manufacturing, alongwith the invention of the safety match, resulted in the increased popularity of cigarettes. In addition, at the Harm Reduction...

báo cáo khoa học: " Virtual harm reduction efforts for Internet gambling: effects of deposit limits on actual Internet sports gambling behavior" doc

... distributions for thesemeasures.We calculated the percentage of losses by subtracting the total amount of winnings from the total amount of wagers and dividing the difference by the total amount of wagers.This ... totalnumber of bets made by the total number of active bettingdays, and the average size of bets in Euro by dividing the total money wagered by the total number of bets. Thesetwo gambling behavior ... days as the percent of days within the interval from the first to the lastbetting day that included a bet. We obtained the averagenumber of bets per active betting day by dividing the totalnumber...

báo cáo khoa học: " Does harm reduction programming make a difference in the lives of highly marginalized, at-risk drug users?" pot

... their well-being. The services offered in the program include the following:• Intensive street outreach to locate, engage, and retainIDUs and their significant others who are HIV infected and/ or ... stronglyrelated to their progress in the outcomes of housing and income than to other program outcomes. Makingprogress in these two outcomes, more than the others,generally requires either abstinence ... time. In order to understand and explain these results, it is impor-tant to understand the harm reduction approach, and spe-cifically the way the program is structured, the way clientsare integrated...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning Noun Phrase Anaphoricity to Improve Coreference Resolution: Issues in Representation and Optimization" ppt

... for each of the remaining NPs.Applying the classiﬁer. To determine the anaphoricity of an NP in a test document, aninstance is created for it as during training and pre-sented to the anaphoricity ... MaxEnt. In comparison to the baseline, we see large gains in precision at the expense of recall. Moreover,CBLO does not seem to be very effective in improv-ing the baseline, in part due to the ... weexamine which anaphoricity features are important in order to gain linguistic insights into the problem.Speciﬁcally, we measure the informativeness of a feature by computing its information gain...

Báo cáo khoa học: " Salvage radiotherapy for biochemical relapse after complete PSA response following radical prostatectomy: outcome and prognostic factors for patients who have never received hormonal therapy" pdf

... physical exams and following the Pros-tate Specific Antigen (PSA) kinetics. Of the patients who fail to achieve biochemical control, the principle of select-ing the best salvage therapy is based ... included the surgi-cal prostate bed and seminal vesicles bed with margins and the PVT2 included only the surgical prostate bed withmargin. This technique was used according to the attend-ing ... genitourinary and gas-trointestinal side effects. All acute and late complicationswere scored according to the Radiation Therapy OncologyGroup (RTOG) scale.ResultsMedian interval from RP to...

báo cáo khoa học: " SolRgene: an online database to explore disease resistance genes in tuber-bearing Solanum species" potx

... (CPC), The Groß Lüsewitz Potato Collection (GLKS), The potato Collection of the Vavilov I nstitute (VIR), The Potato Collection of the International Potat o Center(CIP), and The US Potato Genebank (NRS). ... developments The number of identified R genes to P. infestans and various other potato pathogens is increasing. In the nearfuture, R genes and R gene allele-mining sequences willcontinue to be added ... SolRgene will also be linked to variousdatabases including the full potato genome sequence in which our laboratory plays a leading role [25,27,42]. In addition, since the DNA sequence homology...

báo cáo khoa học:" Upper-body morbidity following breast cancer treatment is common, may persist longer-term and adversely influences quality of life" potx

... palm of handpositioned medially. The testing arm was then movedupward in the sagittal plane (in the flexion direction), asfar as possible, with the palm of the hand always facingmediallyandelbowjointextendedat180degrees .The test ... (clinically and perceived) compared to the non-dominant side. It isalso pertinent to highlight that these characteristicstogether explain less than one-third of the variance fordeclines in ... declines in perceived function during this period. The relationshipbetween UBF declines and treatment on the dominantside may reflect, at least in part, regression to the mean,since the domina...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Optimal rank reduction for Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems with Fan-Out Two" pot

... with fan-out two. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th An-nual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th InternationalJoint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, pages 985–993, ... our procedure to the obtainedsub-bundles. Recursion stops when we reach bun-dles containing only one edge (which correspond to the nonterminals in the right-hand side of the input production). ... resulting in optimal rank reduction. All the internal nodes in the decomposition representfresh nonterminals that will be created during the factorization process. The construction of the decomposition...

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