AIMS To investigate the hypothesis that increasing alcohol consumption is accompanied by increasing use of acute, but decreasing use of preventative, medical services among the general population. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS Health and life-style survey of 41,000 randomly-sampled adults in SE England who self-completed a validated questionnaire covering socio-demographics, alcohol and tobacco usa...

Various forms of nicotine replacement therapy and bupropion have been found to be efficacious and well tolerated for treating patients dependent on tobacco. However, the currently recommended duration of treatment with pharmacotherapy may be insufficient for some smokers to achieve sustained abstinence from tobacco. Extending the use of pharmacotherapy beyond the recommended timeframe may be an...

In this research various objective quality measures are evaluated in order to predict the intelligibility for a wide range of non-linearly processed speech signals and speech degraded by additive noise. The obtained results are compared with the prediction results of a more advanced perceptual-based model proposed by Dau et al. and an objective intelligibility measure, namely the coherence spee...

background: the most important problem in regular transfusion dependent β-thalassemia major is cardiac dysfunction due to iron deposition in it. the aim of this study was to evaluate correlation between serum ferritin levels and cardiac function in β-thalassemia major in mofid hospital. materials and methods: there were 112 β-thalassemia patients with a mean age of 13.55± 6.12 years, of whom 49...

background cannabis is one of the most widely used illicit drugs in india and worldwide. it is considered to have a minimal effect on physical health. objectives the aim of this study was to compare the laboratory profiles of treatment-seeking patients who were cannabis dependent, and drug users who concurrently use other substances, with non-users. materials and methods medical records of pati...

Due to the explosion of smart devices, data traffic over cellular networks has seen an exponential rise in recent years. This increase in mobile data traffic has caused an immediate need for offloading traffic from operators. Device-to-Device(D2D) communication is a promising solution to boost the capacity of cellular networks and alleviate the heavy burden on backhaul links. However, dir...