Reducing Retardation

Impact of specific medical interventions on reducing the prevalence of mental retardation.

OBJECTIVE To explore the impact of medical interventions on reducing the prevalence of mental retardation (MR) in the United States over the last 50 years. DESIGN We reviewed the medical literature and other data from 1950 to 2000 to construct estimates of the general and condition-specific prevalence of MR in the United States over time. We further explored the existing literature to documen...

Effect of reducing groundwater on the retardation of redox-sensitive radionuclides

Laboratory batch sorption experiments were used to investigate variations in the retardation behavior of redox-sensitive radionuclides. Water-rock compositions were designed to simulate subsurface conditions at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), where a suite of radionuclides were deposited as a result of underground nuclear testing. Experimental redox conditions were controlled by varying the oxygen ...

Mental Retardation

This small book is the first of a series of occasional papers which are to be published under the auspices of the Institute for Research into Mental Retardation, and its author is the chairman of the Institute's Research Committee. In the preface, it is said to be aimed at an intelligent lay audience and it is suggested that 'it will be read with interest and profit by workers in the field of m...

Mental Retardation

title. A book on molecular pharmacology should be concerned primarily with drug-receptor interactions in terms of small molecule-biopolymer interactions. Yet, this text discusses neither protein structure nor nucleic acid structure and minimizes discussions of drug induced conformational changes. In other words, this volume is a good textbook of nonmolecular pharmacology. In the introduction th...

Mental Retardation