A t last year's Annual Meeting, it was my pleasure to discuss in general terms the tuberculosis control program of the United States Public Health Service. I described the fundamental objectives and major techniques of the Tuberculosis Control Division, organized as an official agency to integrate and guide actirrities in tuberculosis control throughout the country. I spoke of the success of th...

1 From Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY (R.S.A.); Department of Radiology and Imaging, Division of Ultrasound and Body Imaging (R.S.A.), Sports Service at Department of Orthopaedics (S.F., A.P., R.F.W., W.K.), and Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division (S.L.), Hospital for Special Surgery, 535 E 70th St, New York, NY 10021; Washington Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, ...

CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is an error detection method commonly used in data communication systems, computer networks and storage environments. In this method, the transmitter divides the message by an agreed upon polynomial called the generator and concatenates the calculated residue to the message. The properties of the generator determine the range of errors which are detectable in the r...

The US Maternal and Child Health Bureau's Division of Services to Children With Special Health Care Needs has developed a national agenda for the development of systems of care of children with special health care needs. The purpose of this presentation was to discuss family activism in the care of children with special health care needs, and to explore the obstacles and successes encountered b...

1. Amitsur in his paper on Finite Dimensional Central Division Algebras [l] has proved that in a division ring D with center C, (P: C) 5= ra2 < =o if and only if every primitive homomorphic image of a polynomial ring P[x] is a complete matrix ring Ah, h^n, over a division ring A. Equivalently speaking, a division ring is finite dimensional over its center if and only if the polynomial ring over...

The spring 1996 issue of The Future of Children on special education reviewed the legislative and litigation history of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This Revisiting article examines the impact of the two U.S. Supreme Court cases setting forth school districts' responsibility to reimburse parents of students with disabilities for private school tuition under certain ci...

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This paper introduces the Capital Area Treatment Rating (CATR) being developed by the occupational and physical therapists of the Capital Area Intermediate Unit in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This rating assists therapists in identifying children in special education who require occupational or physical therapy treatment. The CATR consists of two measurement categories - functional levels and cli...

This discussion paper is drawn from a qualitative research project comparing the effect of special and ordinary schools on the lives of children, young people and their families. Special schools are recommended by health professionals who seldom know how ineffective these schools are. We question the beneficence and justice of health professionals' advice on education for children with disabili...