As the nation's first therapeutic community (TC) and work release center for drug involved offenders, CREST combines the basic elements of both modalities into an effective agent for behavioral change. This article explores the ways in which these elements are integrated and applied, and the outcome of such treatment as determined by subsequent substance abuse and criminal activity. Clients ent...

OBJECTIVES There has been little research into risk factors for dementia outside Western settings, in particular the importance of early life nutrition as estimated by adult body size. This study investigated the associations of arm and leg length with cognitive impairment and dementia in a community sample of older Korean people. METHODS 746 community residents aged 65 or over were clinicall...

A bstract We present a novel construction for Higgs-VEV sensitive (HVS) operator, which can be used as trigger operator in cosmic selection models the electroweak hierarchy problem. Our does not contain any degrees of freedom charged under SM gauge symmetries, leading to reduced tuning resulting models. is based on extension two Higgs doublet model (2HDM) with softly broken approximate global D...

This study examines the effectiveness of parapets in preventing overtopping failures small-scale homogeneous reservoir dams under seismic loads. In this study, a parapet covered entire width dam crest and was designed to ensure its weight is transmitted crest. The test included four modes: initial mode, first seepage, seismic, second seepage. results show that without crack length expand signif...

Horizontal directional drilling is usually used in drilling engineering. In a variety of conditions, it is necessary to predict the torque required for performing the drilling operation. Nevertheless, there is presently not a convenient method available to accomplish this task. In order to overcome this difficulty, the current work aims at predicting the required rotational torque (RT) to opera...

This retrospective study investigated the effect of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) mixed with cancellous allograft on fracture healing compared to iliac crest autograft in the treatment of long bone nonunion. Eighty-nine patients with 93 established long bone nonunions treated between January 2002 and June 2004 at a single academic Level I trauma center were evaluated....