in order to evaluate the economic performance of rehabilitation centers for addicted persons, the welfare organization asked all its centers to send the expense table of esfand 79-80 and fill out the information wanted there. the economic analysis is based upon this information. also, each center is provided with a questionnaire to estimate monthly expenses. according to the preventive scale of...

11 to report this threat to Ms Tarasoff directly. However, the psychologist did tell his supervising psychiatrist, who reported the matter to the campus police, who interviewed Mr Poddar, but let him go. After the murder, the girl’s parents sued the psychologist (or, rather, his employer) for “failure to warn”, in that no warning was conveyed to their daughter. The trial Court held that no such...

Author affiliations: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Helena, Montana, USA (R.J. Nett, J.R. Merriman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.J. Nett, B.J. Park); St. Peter’s Medical Group, Helena (D. Skillman); Lewis and Clark City-County Health Department, Helena (L. Riek); Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana (B. Davis); Sawtooth Infectious ...

In this study, a comprehensive set of transit, intermodal and multimodal assignment models (FAST-TrIPs) is developed for transportation planning and operations purposes. The core part of the models is a schedule-based transit assignment with capacity constraint and boarding priority. The problem is defined to model the system performance dynamically by taking into account the scheduled transit ...

Low-floor buses represent a significant improvement in accessible public transit for passengers with limited mobility. However, there is still a need for research on the inclusive design of transit buses to identify specific low-floor bus design conditions that are either particularly accommodating or challenging for passengers with functional and mobility impairments. These include doorway loc...

In high frequency bus service lines, buses often come irregularly at the stops, often in bunches, due to the uncertainty of the passenger demand and behaviors, and the unexpected conditions on the roads. Vehicle holding is a commonly used strategy among a variety of control strategies in transit operation in order to reduce bus bunching and regulate bus headways. This paper investigates a contr...

Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) is the major biologically active form of thiamine (vitamin B1). This cross-sectional study assessed whole-blood thiamine pyrophosphate concentration (WBTPPC) in boarding school students in the Southern Region of Papua New Guinea. Sample size for each of the five boarding schools was calculated using the 'proportionate to population size' cluster sampling technique. ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the perceptions of emergency physicians (EPs) and hospitalists regarding interservice handoff communication as patients are transferred from the emergency department to the inpatient setting. METHODS Investigators conducted individual interviews with 12 physicians (six EPs and six hospitalists). Data evaluation consisted of using the steps of constant comparative, thema...

Understanding the nature of rail transit dwell time has potential benefits for both the users and the operators. Crowded passenger trains cause longer dwell times and may prevent some passengers from boarding the first available train that arrives. Actual dwell time and the process of passenger alighting and boarding are interdependent through the sequence of train stops and propagated delays. ...