Balancing act: psychiatrist preference versus patient choice

The Narcotic Drugs Act and the Psychiatrist

The legislation to make stringent provision for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, has been enforced since September 1985. Since mental health professionals have to deal with the prescription 0 f psychotropic medications and also deal with the rising number of cases of drug dependence and abuse, it is important for all psychiatrists ...

Treatment related mortality versus quality of life--a balancing act.

The Balancing Act : Combining

Computational approaches to language processing arose during a time of bitter debate in the linguistics community that pitted the generative theory of grammar Cho57] versus more quantitative and empirically motivated approaches (e.g., Sha48]). An unfortunate side eeect of this feud was a schism between statistical and symbolic approaches to natural language processing that resulted in limited i...

A PKGarious Balancing Act

The pathologically hypertrophied and failing heart is a battlefield in a war that would make even George Lucas proud. On the one side, you have hemodynamic, neurohormonal, morphological, and cellular/molecular dark forces urging the ventricle toward decompensation and ultimate demise. On the other, Jedi signaling cascades try valiantly to stave off the impending disaster. Alas, unlike the movie...

NBA (Network Balancing Act)

We present the NBA framework, which extends the architecture of the Click modular router to exploit modern hardware, adapts to different hardware configurations, and reaches close to their maximum performance without manual optimization. NBA takes advantages of existing performance-excavating solutions such as batch processing, NUMA-aware memory management, and receiveside scaling with multi-qu...