On December 4, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded age indication for the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) Boostrix (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Rixensart, Belgium). Boostrix is now licensed for use in persons aged 10-64 years as a single-dose booster immunization; the vaccine initially was licensed for persons aged ...

Nowadays, the necessity of safeguarded environments is stronger than ever. The defence of public areas against terroristic threats requires intelligent security assistance systems that comprise state-of-the-art surveillance technology to localize persons with hazardous materials. The recent progress in the detection of hazardous materials by a new generation of chemical sensors leads to an incr...

Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices in combination with Environmental Control Systems (ECS) offer remarkable benefits for severely and multiple impaired persons. The authors have developed such a combined ECS and AAC system called AUTONOMY. This system was set up at two validation sites based on EIB Twisted Pair and EIB Power Line installations. An intensive evaluation took...

The Memory Magic concept (copyrighted, patent pending) is an innovative, engaging group activity for up to 20 persons with cognitive disabilities in both institutional and home care settings. A single activity staffer can run the activity leaving other staff to complete other tasks. The game may also be used for those with dementia, head trauma or intellectual disabilities at home. One hundred ...

Persons with disabilities have severe problems participating in the job market and their unemployment rate is usually much higher than the average of the population. This motivates the research of new modes of production which allow the inclusion of these persons at a low overhead. In this paper we study the inclusion of persons with disabilities into flow shops with the objective of minimizing...

Ocular toxocariasis in humans is typically a unilateral disease caused by second-stage larvae of the Toxocara species. Serological evidence of widespread infection in humans provides little information on clinical disease. There is only a single previous estimate of the prevalence of ocular toxocariasis (from Alabama). The present survey examined the extent of consultant-diagnosed toxocaral eye...

Recently, the importance of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) has been stressed. The discovery of the disease-related gene can disclose disease susceptible or resistant persons, such as noted in persons resistant to AIDSvirus infection. Genetic polymorphism is also important in drug-responsiveness, and also in the occurrence of severe side effects in each patient. Azathioprine is one of the ...

In early 2012, three clusters of human Salmonella infections were identified through PulseNet, a national network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by CDC that subtypes disease-causing organisms. Initial investigations indicated many of the ill persons in these three clusters had contact with live poultry (e.g., chicks and ducklings) from a single mail-order h...

This study is a test of the so-called subversion hypothesis, which posits that mentally disordered persons who commit minor offenses are prosecuted primarily for the purpose of imposing mental health treatment on them through evaluation and treatment for incompetency to stand trial. These persons, according to the subversion hypothesis, find themselves in the criminal process because they do no...

a continually absent person is “a person which is almost a long time laps from his absence and there is not any news behalf him” (article 1011 of civil code). the rules and effects of absence of continually absent person which chapter fifth of civil code specified to it, are mostly derived from jurisprudence, and in fact the base of civil code in this part is emamie jurisprudence. absence of ab...