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Efficacy Of Conjoint Behavioral Consultation In Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Services., Susan M. Sheridan, Emily D. Warnes, C. Ellis, C. Schnoes, J. Burt, B. L. Clarke

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools: Presentations

• Purpose: To evaluate the effects of the CBC model in addressing presenting concerns for children across home, school, and health care systems. • What are the general effects of CBC in addressing identified concerns in a medically-referred sample? • How do parents and teachers perceive CBC in terms of its perceived effectiveness and acceptability? • How satisfied are parents and teachers with CBC consultants and services when provided across homeschool- medical settings?

Times Of Change - Can Turkey Make The Necessary Changes In Its Human Rights Policies To Be Admitted To The European Union, Vince Burskey

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Ultrastructure Of The Olfactory System In Two Species Of Short-Tailed Shrews, Blarina Brevicauda And Blarina Carolinensis, Lisa Johnson Byrum

Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences

Several studies of the fine structure of the olfactory system of rodents have been conducted, but very little research has been done on members of the Insectivora. The olfactory systems of the northern short-tailed shrew, Blarina brevicauda, and the southern short-tailed shrew, Blarina carolinensis, were examined by light and electron microscopy. These shrews were live trapped in the vicinity of Norfolk, Virginia throughout all months of the year. Olfactory tissues were processed following standard transmission and scanning electron microscopy protocols. The olfactory system structures investigated included the olfactory epitheliumlmucosa (OEM), main olfactory bulb (MOB), accessory olfactory bulb (AOB), …

The Effects Of Firearm Use On Police Officers, Quinn M. Beers

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

The use of firearms by police officers is a subject that has not received much attention in past research. It is a rare occurrence for police officers to have fire their weapon in the line duty, which has also made this area of law enforcement difficult to study. In addition, little data is kept on the extent of firearm use by police officers. Several theories have been proposed to explain firearm use by police officers as well as how officers decide to use their weapon or not.

Ninety-two police officers from the city of Newport News, Virginia completed a survey …

Laboratory Diagnosis Of Hepatitis C Virus Infection. A Change To Common Practice, Ali H. Hajeer, Ziad A. Memish, Bandar A. Al-Knawy

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Putative Virulence Markers (Caga And Vaca ) Of Helicobacter Pylori In Peptic Ulcer Disease, Barik A. Salih

Saudi Medical Journal

Helicobacter pylori is genetically diverse and certain strains are more virulent and cause more severe diseases than others and such diversity is reflected on the clinical outcome. The cytotoxin-associated gene (cagA) and vacuolating cytotoxin (vacA) gene are 2 putative markers that were associated with peptic ulcer disease. The basis for the epidemiological association between the cagA and vacA genes is not known. In this review, the molecular characteristics of these markers, and its role in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease and gastric cancer are discussed.

Factors Associated With Iron Depletion And Iron Deficiency Anemia Among Arabic Preschool Children Of The United Arab Emirates, Campbell J. Miller, Earl V. Dunn, Sameeh F. Abdouni, Huda M. Shaheen, Mohammed S. Ullah

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was: 1. To estimate the prevalence of iron depletion and iron deficiency anemia in preschool Arabic children of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and 2. To determine the risk factors associated with these conditions in this population of children. METHODS: From April through to October 2000 a questionnaire and capillary blood survey was carried out in one primary health care (PHC) centre of Al Ain, UAE. Children whose capillary hemoglobin (Hb) or mean cell volume (MCV) results fell below predetermined cutoffs were offered venous blood workup. An additional sample of children with capillary blood …

Hematological Findings In Male X-Ray Technicians, Sultan A. Meo

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: In view of the known health hazards of x-ray radiation, this study focuses on the basic hematological parameters: red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs) and platelets count in x-ray technicians. The aim was to identify the affect of x-ray radiation on blood cell counts in x-ray technicians. METHODS: The present study was conducted in the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the year 2002. In this study, a group of 40 apparently healthy male x-ray technicians with age ranging from 25-50-years were recruited. They were matched with another …

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, Clinical Presentation And Outcome, Zakeya A. Bukhary, Abdulrahman A. Alrajhi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To identify patterns, features, and outcome of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a tertiary care setting. METHODS: A retrospective case-series was carried out of all cases diagnosed and treated as extrapulmonary tuberculosis during 1991 through to 2000 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH and RC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Demographic, clinical, laboratory, and outcome data were abstracted from medical records. RESULTS: Over a 10-year period, 394 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis were diagnosed and treated at KFSH and RC. Isolated extrapulmonary tuberculosis was identified in 339 (86%) patients, 55 cases (14%) had both pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Mean …

Awareness And Frequency Of Potential Side Effects On Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Among The Jordanian Patient Population, Abla M. Albsoul-Younes, Sawsan K. Jabateh, Summer M. Abdel-Hafiz, Saafan A. Al-Safi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate patient awareness of the proper use and frequency of side effects in nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) users in Jordan. METHODS: This study was a prospective 8 question interview of subjects purchasing medications, during randomized 4 hour/day pharmacy visits over a one month study period (March 2002). Two hundred and twelve patients were included in this study. Two community pharmacies located in Irbid were chosen. The other 2 were Albashir Hospital Pharmacy and Prince Basma Hospital pharmacy. RESULTS: Overall NSAIDs use during last year was 69%: Diclofenac was the most used NSAID. The majority of patients (58%) reported …

Nicotine Content In Tobacco Used In Hubble-Bubble Smoking, Kamal A. Hadidi, Faisal I. Mohammed

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the nicotine content of commonly used tobacco in hubble-bubble (HB) and compare it with that found in cigarettes. METHODS: Analysis of nicotine content of 13 commercial brands of HB tobacco was carried out using gas chromatography over an 8 month period; November 2002 through to June 2003 at the Toxicology Laboratory, University of Jordan. RESULTS: A wide variation in nicotine content in all brands was noticed with an average of 8.32 mg/g tobacco, range (1.8-41.3 mg/g). The average nicotine content in each HB head (20 gm) of unflavored tobacco was (713mg/head) and flavored tobacco has (67mg/head). One …

The Prevalence Of Hypertension And Its Associated Risk Factors In A Newly Developed Country, Abdulbari Bener, Jasim Al-Suwaidi, Khalifa Al-Jaber, Saleh Al-Marri, Mohammed H. Dagash, Isam-Eldin A. Elbagi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors and its association with the sociodemographic, behavioral, and lifestyle characteristics of the adult qatari population. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study, which was carried out in primary health care clinics (PHCs). The survey was conducted from January through to July 2003 among qatari nationals 25-65-years of age. Of the 1500 patients who were approached to participate in study, 1208 (80.5%) gave their consent. Face-to-face interviews were based on a questionnaire that included variables on age, sex, socioeconomic status (SES), parity, …

Immunological Changes In Acute Myocardial Infarction, Randa S. Al-Ahmad, Azmi M. Mahafzah, Eyas N. Al-Mousa

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to investigate troponin and lymphocyte subset changes in acute myocardial infarctions (AMI) and to correlate these changes with disease variables. METHODS: Forty-five patients with AMI admitted to the Coronary Care Unit, Jordan University Hospital and Queen Alia Heart Institute at King Hussein Medical Center, Amman, Jordan during the period November 1999 through to April 2000 were included in the study. Forty-five patients with non cardiac conditions were selected as a control group. Tests performed include; determination of the percentages of B-lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes and T-lymphocyte subsets by flow cytometry, measurements of serum cardiac troponin I (cTnI) …

Disseminated Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Rafid A. Najim

Saudi Medical Journal

Disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis DCL is a condition rarely seen in the Middle East. We report a case of disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis in a 60-years-old lady. The patient first presented 1996 with an initial lesion, which started on the butterfly area of the face and spread, probably due to immunosuppression, to involve the whole face. The lesions consisted of nodules, which did not ulcerate. The histology showed abundance of macrophages filled with amastigotes L-D bodies. The patient was started on oral zinc sulphate 10 mg/kg in 3 divided doses daily. The condition showed gradual improvement. Repeated biopsies showed upgrading of the …

Adequacy Of Completion Of Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Request Forms In A Jordanian Hospital, Nasser M. Kaplan

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Infosemm: Infosys It Security Maturity Model: A Report, Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, N. Dayasindhu, Raghavan Subramanian

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Businesses are faced with a continuing battle related to cyber security related issues ranging from cyber attacks all the way to cyber (information) war. These issues affect result in information, system, reputation, and revenue related risks. These risks arise because of vulnerabilities introduced in three major parts of the enterprise – infrastructure, intelligence and practices. This report provides a rating system for representing the security health of enterprises.

Review Of Goldberger's War: The Life And Work Of A Public Health Crusader By Alan M. Kraut; Hill & Wang, 2003, Sue Ann Gardner

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The story of the scourge of pellagra, a fatal niacin deficiency characterized by a severe skin rash, diarrhea, and dementia, has faded into obscurity in this country. With a mortality rate of upwards of 30 percent, it plagued the southern United States as late as the 1940s, claiming the lives of hundreds or thousands of impoverished Southerners every year. Joseph Goldberger's family, Hungarian Jews, emigrated to New York City in 1883 when he was nine years old. He became a scientist working in the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. An occasional victim of the pathogens he studied, Goldberger …

Effect Of Ventilation Rate On Instilled Surfactant Distribution In The Pulmonary Airways Of Rats, Joseph C. Anderson, Robert C. Molthen, Christopher A. Dawson, Steven Thomas Haworth, Joseph L. Bull, Matthew R. Glucksburg, James B. Grotberg

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Liquid can be instilled into the pulmonary airways during medical procedures such as surfactant replacement therapy, partial liquid ventilation, and pulmonary drug delivery. For all cases, understanding the dynamics of liquid distribution in the lung will increase the efficacy of treatment. A recently developed imaging technique for the study of real-time liquid transport dynamics in the pulmonary airways was used to investigate the effect of respiratory rate on the distribution of an instilled liquid, surfactant, in a rat lung. Twelve excised rat lungs were suspended vertically, and a single bolus (0.05 ml) of exogenous surfactant (Survanta, Ross Laboratories, Columbus, OH) …

Stent Design Properties And Deployment Ratio Influence Indexes Of Wall Shear Stress: A Three-Dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation Within A Normal Artery, John F. Ladisa, Lars E. Olson, Ismail Guler, Douglas Anthony Hettrick, Said H. Audi, Judy R. Kersten, David C. Warltier, Paul S. Pagel

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Restenosis limits the effectiveness of stents, but the mechanisms responsible for this phenomenon remain incompletely described. Stent geometry and expansion during deployment produce alterations in vascular anatomy that may adversely affect wall shear stress (WSS) and correlate with neointimal hyperplasia. These considerations have been neglected in previous computational fluid dynamics models of stent hemodynamics. Thus we tested the hypothesis that deployment diameter and stent strut properties (e.g., number, width, and thickness) influence indexes of WSS predicted with three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics. Simulations were based on canine coronary artery diameter measurements. Stent-to-artery ratios of 1.1 or 1.2:1 were modeled, and computational …

The South African Constitutional Court's Construction Of Socio-Economic Rights: A Response To Critics, Mark S. Kende

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The new South African Constitution has received praise and international attention.' It provides numerous socio-economic rights which have been held to be judicially enforceable by the South African Constitutional Court, such as the right to housing2 and the right to health care.' The Constitutional Court, therefore, has done exactly what the U.S. Supreme Court has said courts cannot and should not do - enforce socio-economic rights.

American scholars typically criticize judicially enforceable socio-economic rights as infringing on separation of powers and taxing judicial competency.- I have argued elsewhere that this criticism is incorrect,6 as have other scholars, perhaps most notably …

Catalog 2004-2005, Saint Mary's College Of California

Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Getting Your Money's Worth: What Early Childhood Directors Should Know About Working With Mental Health Professionals, Beth L. Green, Maria C. Everhart, Lynwood Gordon

School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

The increasing numbers of young children with challenging behaviors and emotional problems have led many child care providers and early childhood education programs to employ or contract with mental health professionals (Lavigne et al., 1996). Head Start Programs, for example, are required by federal performance standards to utilize services of mental health professionals that are "sufficient" to meet the needs of children and families. However, there has been little research to help program managers make informed choices about who might provide the best services, what services are most important to support staff and families, and how to make the best …

Learning Nursing Research Through Faculty-Mentored Projects, Patricia K. Ravert, Ben Boyer, Kirsten Harmon, Holly Scoffield

Faculty Publications

Baccalaureate nursing educators have incorporated nursing research content into the curriculum for many years. Our university also proposes that students have a faculty-mentored learning experience at least once during their undergraduate education. Student research, guided by a faculty mentor, provides an excellent opportunity for students to learn about and participate in nursing research. The authors describe a unique experience of nursing students working as research assistants in a faculty research project using a human patient simulator.

A Fickle Thermometer Of Womens Health: Carioca Medical Professionals And Gynecology, 1836-1842', Suzanne M. Schadl

Latin American Collections Publications

In English: This essay examines how medical professionals in Rio de Janeiro during the late 1830s relied on language and historical representation to further inscribe gendered, racial, and class distinctions that enabled a select group of men to make women and their personal hygiene objects of study. Medical writers combined experimental studies of race, class, and ethnicity with historical discussions of gender to form and present rhetorical differences in scientific terms. Though many of these professionals themselves as objective, they used linguistic tools to investigate and to prove or disprove their hypotheses, always drawing also from cultural myths, in this …

Adobe Medicus 2004 4 July-August, Health Sciences Library And Informatics Center

adobe medicus

No abstract provided.

A Cross-National Analysis Of The Impact Of Conscription On Crime Rates, Nicolette G. Rose

Sociology & Criminal Justice Theses & Dissertations

Research has repeatedly shown that males in the age range of 16 to 24 years account for a disproportionately large volume of crime (Sampson and Laub 1993 ). The armed forces are major employers of young males in this crime-prone age range and could thus play an important role in crime prevention. The military provides many varied opportunities including a highly structured and regimented institution in which rigid behavioral norms and close monitoring are imposed. Some other incentives that service provides include educational opportunities through the" Advanced Individual Training", the GI Bill, in-service tuition assistance, and world-wide travel. All these …

Justification For Class Iii Permit Modification July 2004 Dss Site 1111 Operable Unit 1295 Building 6720 Drywell, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Justification for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 1111. Contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of the site.

Justification For Class Iii Permit Modification July 2004 Dss Site 1089 Operable Unit 1295 Building 6734 Seepage Pit, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Justification for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 1089. Contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of the site.

Justification For Class Iii Permit Modification July 2004 Dss Site 1091 Operable Unit 1295 Building 6720 Septic System, Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Justification for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 1091. Contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of the site.

Justification For Class Iii Permit Modification July 2004 Dss Site 1027 Operable Unit 1295 Building 6530 Septic System (Ta-Iii), Sandia National Laboratories/Nm

Regulatorily Completed

This technical document contains the Justification for the Class III Permit Modification request for Site 1027. Contained within this document is the history of the site, descriptions of any investigations and/or remediation completed at the site, the regulatory background, and the rationale for the proposed future land-use of the site.