The GermanTeam is a joint project of several German universities in the Sony Legged Robot League. This report describes the software developed for the RoboCup 2001 in Seattle. It presents the software architecture of the system as well as the methods that were developed to tackle the problems of motion, image processing, object recognition, self-localization, and robot behavior. The approaches ...

Spinal Cord Injury .........................................1-3 Implementation Of The Year 2000 AgeAdjustment Standard ....................................4-6 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is one of the most debilitating types of trauma. Disability, loss of productivity, extreme use of medical resources, and untold human suffering routinely accompany these injuries. In order to assess the need for s...

and disfiguring forms of trauma, as it affects the skin, the largest andmost visible organ. The National Burn Care Review (British Burn Association, 2001) determined that as many as 500,000 people suffer a burn injury each year in the UK. Most are minor. Around 13,000 people, of which 45% are children, are admitted to hospital; only a small proportion have severe injuries requiring resuscitatio...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the deposition impact of dredged material from Patos lagoon estuary on a benthic macroinvertebrate assemblage structure in an adjacent coastal marine area. Nine sampling stations were chosen at random in the disposal area, and nine others in the same way in an adjacent control area. Samples were collected at a 19 m depth before sediment disposal (11 July 20...

This evaluation determines whether published studies to date meet the key characteristics identified for budget impact analyses (BIA) for medicines, accomplished through a systematic review and assessment against identified key characteristics. Studies from 2001-2015 on 'budget impact analysis' with 'drug' interventions were assessed, selected based on their titles/abstracts and full texts, and...

Despite widespread reports of defensive medicine in surveys of physicians, empirical investigations have produced conflicting evidence. This paper models the interactions in a health insurance market, predicting that rises in medical malpractice pressure have non-monotonic effects on health care spending. Spending rises with malpractice pressure until reaching a threshold, and decreases thereaf...

We present a rare case of long-term alcoholic liver disease that progressed from alcoholic liver fibrosis to alcoholic liver cirrhosis, and following passive abstinence, the patient's condition then improved to alcoholic liver fibrosis. A 70-year-old Japanese man who had consumed large amounts of alcohol since he was 20 years old received a liver biopsy for evaluation of liver dysfunction at th...

We report the outcome of an 11-year programme monitoring sewage water and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases as part of the World Health Organization (WHO) strategy for polio eradication in the Slovak Republic (SR). Polioviruses (PV) and non-polio enteroviruses (NPEV), prior to and after the change in polio vaccination strategy, were detected. Sewage treatment plant samples from 48 localities ...

WPSAR Vol 3, No 1, 2012 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2012.3.1.003 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 1 a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Submitted: 21 January 2012; Published: 27 March 2012 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.year.2012.3.1.003 The role of air travel in rapid translocation of infectious disease is indisputable.1 The global health community has long been concerned about the movement across borders of v...