PURPOSE To study HIV-associated risk behaviours among young offenders. METHODS Juveniles aged 12 to 19 years entering correctional facilities in British Columbia volunteered in an unlinked anonymous study. Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with high-risk sexual behaviours and injection drug use (IDU). RESULTS Despite low HIV prevalence (0.25%), patterns of risk beh...

This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.

The aim of this longitudinal research was to assess and monitor adjustment (operationalised in terms of anxiety) of 60 prisoners as they entered prison and one month later. Results confirmed very high levels of anxiety on admission, which reduced after one month, but still remained significantly higher than adult population norms. Given that Correctional Officers (COs) play an integral role in ...

My attention was first called to this disease in an outbreak of beri-beri at Meiktila Jail in 1808 ; at that time I thought the disease was due to a micrococcus, which I found in between the starch cells in jewary, in the granary of the jail ; I had also found it in pigeon's excreta from the roofs, and thought I had also found it in the blood and in pigeon's blood. But my series of experiments ...

Little is known about the efficiency of health care in correction settings. This article reports an efficiency analysis of health care in state correctional institutions (SCIs) in a single, mid-Atlantic state from 2003 to 2006. A two-stage data envelopment analysis was used to estimate the technical efficiency of prison health care and determine inmate and institutional characteristics that wer...

Over the past two decades Romanian higher education has been the subject of numerous policy reforms aiming to increase the overall quality and performance of higher education institutions (HEIs): two comprehensive laws on education and several second-order legislative acts intended to transform the sphere of higher education into a modern system of teaching and research. Funding was one of the ...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal representation in Canadian correctional institutions has increased rapidly over the past decade. We calculated "years of life lost to incarceration" for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians. METHODS Incarceration data from provincial databases were used conjointly with demographic data to estimate rates of incarceration and years of life lost to provincial incarcerati...

Latency performance is enhanced in Network-on-Chips using a variety of techniques, among which virtual channel approach is one of the most widely used. With virtual channels, high priority packets can pre-empt low priority packets but this can cause starvation of low priority packets which can be un-necessary in many situations. With this paper we present an improvement on the classical virtual...

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