are more liable to respiratory disease than those of the slum area. Which, as Euclid would say, is absurd! The report will be valuable for those who propose to undertake a similar enquiry, as it demonstrates the difficulties and the fallacies of work of this kind. We should say that the main fallacy depends on the fact that people who live in slum areas appear to like living in them and attempt...

Intrauterine contraceptive devices and the progestin implant are the most effective long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods available for preventing unintended pregnancy. LARC devices are safe, non-user-dependent methods that have the highest rates of continuation and satisfaction of all reversible contraceptives. Use of these contraceptives remains low in the United States due to s...

Patients with life-threatening conditions sometimes appear to make risky treatment decisions as their condition declines, contradicting the risk-averse behavior predicted by expected utility theory. Prospect theory accommodates such decisions by describing how individuals evaluate outcomes relative to a reference point and how they exhibit risk-seeking behavior over losses relative to that poin...

Contrary to the most widespread conception that considers self-help/mutual aid as a component of the 'third sector', an approach is proposed which assumes, on the basis of the specific nature of the social bond and of the social action that characterizes it, it can be more properly considered as part of the 'new civil society' as it has been configured during the time in Western societies. This...

Ill babies are more likely to be transfused than any other patients The special care baby unit presents unique problems for the physician caring for ill, newborn infants. These infants, both mature and preterm, are more likely to be transfused with blood products than any other group of patients. The indications for tranfusion and the techniques used by the blood bank to provide for these needs...

Hearsay-Ill provides a framework for constructing knowledge-based expert systems. While HearsayIll makes no commitment to any particular application domain, it does supply a variety of generally applicable facilities. These include representation primitives and an interpreter for large-grained, flexibly schedulable production rules called knowledge sources. A detailed overview of the motivation...

Sixty male criminals selected randomly from the Central Prison of Madras and twenty mentally ill criminals from the Institute of Mental Health, Madras, were administered E.P.Q. and compared with sixty normals. The results show that criminals scored significantly nigh on extroversion, psychoticism and neuroticism. The mentally ill criminals scored significantly on psychoticism compared to normal...

background: transport of the critically ill patient is potentially risky and the transport team should be careful in making decision and be prepared to deal with them in any condition. our physicians are not qualified in safe transport. we want to evaluate the effect of small group teaching method for promotion of physicians' skills in transport of critically ill patients. methods: in an interv...