Introduction. Community orientation is a concept that nowadays seems necessary for medicine related services. Although our country has some degree of progress in this policy but we are still far from ideal condition. There are some problems affecting our improvement in this policy such as lack of budget and deficiency of proper health care centers for COME. So, the investigator has...

Facing an increasing violence level and higher firepower in the hands of criminal organizations (especially those related to drug trafficking), the Military Police of Pernambuco has created, in 1989, the "1a Companhia Independente de Operações Especiais" (1st Independent Company of Special Operations), as a tactical last resort of the Police to be used on special, complex situations. The CIOE p...

The study of individual difference variables in the realm of written feedback is one of the significant lines of research which has been reinvigorated in the last few years. These variables are believed to affect both students’ engagement with feedback and their writing improvement. The present correlational study investi- gated the relationship betw...

Background:   Facing an unfamiliar environment is always one of the biggest concerns for medical students who are going to have clinical educations in medical fields. Recently early clinical exposure (ECE) for medical students has been proposed as an effective factor in reducing stress and motivating toward the rest of their education as a clinical student. This study aimed at evaluation of E...

Official guidelines for the practice of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recommend routine seizure modification to minimize musculoskeletal complications; nevertheless, unmodified ECT continues to be administered in India. We therefore assessed musculoskeletal morbidity with unmodified ECT with particular reference to the development of vertebral fractures and backache X-rays of the thoracolumba...

Although small populations are at high risk of extinction, there are regular reports in the scientific literature of purported small, isolated, persistent populations. One source of evidence of the viability of small populations comes from the alleged successful introduction of species to areas outside their original range from introductions of few individuals. We reviewed the examples from int...

This paper introduces XZ-shape histogram in recognizing human performing activities of daily living (ADLs) which focuses on human-object interaction activities based on Kinect-like depth image. The evaluation framework was formulated in order to compare XZ-descriptor with previous shape histogram as well as X-shape histogram and Z-shape histogram. Each descriptor was segmented into several case...

This paper studies the relationship between mothers’ employment and children’s schooling in India. Using the second National Family Health Survey, the results of a multilevel probit model show that the correlation between mothers’ employment and their children’s schooling is negative. Women in poorer households are more likely to work but, given the negative correlation, their additional income...