the perspective of public health

... 35% of convicted offenders were under the influence of alcohol at the time of their offense An additional significant proportion of offenders were using other drugs at the time of their offense ... International Law in the Field of Addiction Addiction: The Perspective of Drug Control International Organizations and the Infrastructure of Drug Control Addiction: The Perspective of Public Health Why ... rejected If the committee decides to report the bill to the entire house, the bill is then debated on the floor of the house Members of the house may argue for or against the bill and may offer amendments...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... injury These findings are in line with the results from other studies of hospital referred head injuries [4,6-8,19] We report that 35.8% of the patients had consumed alcohol at the time of admission ... involved in the study design, gathered data, and drafted the manuscript BH took part in the study design and gathering of data and helped draft the manuscript TI participated in the study design ... value of 0.10‰ and a maximum value of 4.70‰ Of these, 7.9% (21/267) had a BAC in the range 0.10-0.99‰, 30.3% (81/267) had BAC 1.00-1.99‰ and 61.8% (165/267) had BAC ≥ 2.00‰ The mean BAC in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... implemented, the Health Care Services became responsible for the 15 new EMCC One of the first actions of the new organization was to make the same stipulations regarding the competence and education of the ... during the period 2002-2005 were available from the municipality-based databases The rest of the data could not be gathered since it was impossible to retrieve it from the old databases The estimated ... emergency care team The ambulance must arrive at the scene within 30 minutes Priority code D; no suspicion of failure of vital functions The patient can wait, the ambulance must arrive at the scene within...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... renal disease are on the rise [65] As more of our patients develop renal disease, psychiatrists must be aware of the effects of psychotropics on the kidneys, as well the effects of decreased renal ... deleted from the risk:benefit analysis In some cases a medication with greater side effects or medical risk may be the preferred treatment because of the documented efficacy of the agent either in ... mortality [6-9] The authors concluded that the prevalence of obesity in this study of outpatients was related to the use of antipsychotics, but less so lithium or anticonvulsants Of those persons...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... angles of the dural opening The most significant step involves constructing small supporting pillars on the bilateral sides of the vessels as they pass the edge of the dural window (the pillars ... the base backwards along the zygoma but left the fascia base 1-2 cm long for the blood supply Finally, they turned the temporal fascia beneath the temporal muscle and sutured it to the dura They ... because of the limited space.15 The procedure of subtemporal craniectomy, which was introduced by Cushing,11 involves removing the part of the skull beneath the temporal muscle by opening the dura...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... throughout the life of the network Although there are capital expense implications in addressing most of these issues, they must be weighed against the potential operational savings in the future ... feed the closer third of the customers, but the other two-thirds would require conversion to active cabinets This raises several very practical issues for the network planner Two-thirds of the ... some of the ducts branch out into other directions Therefore, it’s not one cable running in one duct to one group of cabinets Rather, it is multiple ducts containing multiple cables that share the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 11:20

... the transfer of IPv4 address space The repercussions of other qualification mechanisms, and of the absence of such forms of qualification, are also under investigation Whether the RIRs have the ... allowing other parties to make decisions as to the validity and authenticity of the use of an address The efforts to improve the security of the routing system and offer capabilities to support the ... certification in the context of adoption of secure routing frameworks, expands the role of the RIRs into that of certificate issuers which, in turn, gives them a central role in the operation of the Internet‟s...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... another section of the valley stretching from the town of Grande Isle to the town of Hamlin The two areas were delineated as the research site because they are areas that contain all four of the ... distribution He mapped the surficial geology of the area describing the geologic unit, the materials present, the topography, and the origin of the unit The geologic units identified in the two study ... used as the field-check for evaluating the validity of soils maps to represent the surficial geology of the study areas The localities of 248 point stations out of a total of 301 in the study...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... results, the appropriateness of management’s use of the going concern assumption in the preparation of the financial statements.3 The auditor considers the appropriateness of management’s use of the ... by the auditor, the auditor is required to consider the need to modify the auditor’s report as a result of the limitation on the scope of the auditor’s work, as it may not be possible for the ... regarding the use of the going concern assumption in the preparation of the financial statements.14 Nevertheless, the current economic conditions not change either management’s or the auditor’s...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... protection of hypothermia can be offset by inappropriate rewarming More important than the use of hypothermia is avoidance of hyperthermia (Grigore et al,2009) During the rewarming period the returning ... responses offsetting the effects of vasodilation This mechanism explains the vulnerability of the hypovolemic patients to the effects of barbiturate induction (Stoelting&Hillier,2006) The adverse ... the left ventricle Adequate hydration is often recommended to offset this effect of propofol Unlike the effect of thiopental on blood pressure compansated by the increase in heart rate, propofol...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... complete set of financial statements The more the user broadens the scope of standardization and inclusion of different types of data, the more the end result will be complete and final On the other ... accounting firms, and the XBRL team of the IASB in various initiatives designed to support the Canadian business community in the transition Among these initiatives is the development of the Convergence ... systems within the organization’s infrastructure, then the degree of system impact may be quite large at the sub-ledger level as well as the internal reporting level The extent of changes may...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... Information: Privacy Act of 1974, U.S.C § 552A The E-Government Act of 2002 strengthened privacy protection requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974 Under the terms of these public laws, federal government ... Because the Authorizing Official (AO) is responsible for accepting the risk of operating the system, the AO can advise the development team if the risks associated with eventual operation of the ... answer would then result in the execution of a more detailed evaluation of privacy data and proper security controls in the form of a privacy impact assessment The resulting document of either process...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... be used for the “minus” phrase and not for the “end of the day” phrase In terms of BLEU, both hypotheses are equally poor but 90% of their tokens were not evaluated Table estimates the overall ... disregards the syntactic structure and uses the semantic part of speech of the words (noun, verb, etc.) There are 19 fine-grained parts of speech For each semantic part of speech t, the overlapping ... “sparse data” in the reference Due to the lexical and morphological variance of Czech, only a single word in each hypothesis matches a word in the reference In the case of pctrans, the match is even...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... relatively low compared to ADH1 The expression patterns of the ADH gene family provide further understanding into the roles of these enzymes in retinol turnover observed in the null mutant mice ADH1 ... that it functions as the initiator of the oxidative pathway These findings also have implications for the mechanism of vitamin A toxicity MATERIALS AND METHODS Maintenance of mouse strains Mice ... raw data using the unpaired Student’s t-test (STATISTICA version 5.0) RESULTS Metabolism of acute dose of retinol The main pathway for retinol turnover begins with the oxidation of retinol to...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:48

... caricature of the ow paradigm The represents the mathematical model of the queueing network underlying the people, resources, products and their ow relationships The professionals (especially the academics) ... many of the ideas within the paper, while Section provides the theoretical background of the many concepts in the paper Section describes the implication for the manufacturing and IE profession ... of the associated Markov chain They then present a decomposition-based approximation method for evaluating larger lines They report on the accuracy of their proposed method and they discuss the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:26

... expansions of γδ T-cells are not addressed Aim of the study was the application of mathematical markers to describe the global restriction of the αβ TCR repertoire in the different compartments rather ... in the conduct of the study ET participated in design and conduct of the study UK participated in design and conduct of the study DN conceived of the study, coordinated the study and drafted the ... in fold of standard deviation of the respective family (C) The sum of the modulus' normalized concentrations of all families of the samples (CD) and the number of families elevated more than...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... found that the maximum value of CEA mRNA in patients without malignancy was 8.6, they therefore set the cutoff value as 9.0 [20] Schuster R et al.[21] also used the maximum value of healthy volunteer ... apoptosis and the antitumor immune response of the host These immunized macrophages may sensitize the cytotoxic T lymphocytes of the host, and the sensitized T lymphocytes may attack the residual ... The reporter dye (6-carboxy-fluorescein: FAM) was covalently attached to the 5’ end of the probe, and the quencher dye (6-carboxy-tetramethyl-rhodamine: TAMRA) was attached to the 3’ end of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... to the audio sample analyzed, the audio wave of the first fifteen seconds, and the top two key answers over time, and the distances of these key representations to the CE of the audio sample In the ... major thirds The pitch spiral is shown on Figure 2(a) Central to the spiral array is the idea of the center of effect (CE), the representing of pitch-based objects as the weighted sum of their lower-level ... difference between the first two keys is larger then the threshold d, we report the first key as the answer Otherwise, we compare the average distances of the two keys from the beginning to the current...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20