BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Among substances that have a significant effect on sleep are stimulants, including amphetamines. As there are few studies assessing sleep quality in methamphetamine withdrawal this study aims to evaluate changes in sleep quality of methamphetamine dependent patients during early remission period by controlling depression and anxiety as confounding variables. METHODS T...

OBJECTIVE Studies have shown signs of brain damage caused by different mechanisms in cocaine users. The serum neuron specific enolase and S100B protein are considered specific biochemical markers of neuronal and glial cell injury. This study aimed at comparing blood levels of S100B and NSE in chronic cocaine users and in volunteers who did not use cocaine or other illicit drugs. METHOD Twenty...

The pro-Th2 cytokine IL-33 is now emerging as an important Th1 cytokine-IFN-γ inducer in murine CD4(+) T cells that is essential for protective cell-mediated immunity against viral infection in mice. However, whether IL-33 can promote human Th1 cell differentiation and how IL-33 polarizes Th1 cells is less understood. We assessed the ability of IL-33 to induce Th1 cell differentiation and IFN-γ...

Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sex. In 1978, Congress amended Title V112 with the express purpose of reversing an earlier Supreme Court decision 3 , General Electric Co. v. Gilbert, 4 in which the Court held that exclusion of pregnancy coverage from a disability-benefits plan did not constitute sex-based discrimination under Tit...

We describe a recently developed corpus annotation scheme for evaluating parsers that avoids shortcomings of current methods. The scheme encodes grammatical relations between heads and dependents, and has been used to mark up a new publicdomain corpus of naturally occurring English text. We show how the corpus can be used to evaluate the accuracy of a robust parser, and relate the corpus to ext...

We present some novel machine learning techniques for the identification of subcategorization information for verbs in Czech. We compare three different statistical techniques applied to this problem. We show how the learning algorithm can be used to discover previously unknown subcategorization frames from the Czech Prague Dependency Treebank. The algorithm can then be used to label dependents...

A house-to-house survey was carried out in early 1983 among military dependents at an army residential complex in Kuching, Sarawak All houses including flats within the complex were numbered consecutively from one onwards With the use of a table of random numbers 200 residentiai units were seiected and the houses were visited by two nurses. In the houses where pre-school children were residing,...

More than $5.6 billion was paid under employee-benefit plans during 1957 to workers covered by theplans and to their dependents. Because many of the plans supplement government measures for economic security, their operations are of special interest to students of social security and are reported each year in the Bulletin. The following article, in addition to bringing together information on d...

Crack cocaine addiction is a public health problem in Brazil. It is an endemic disease that affects rural and urban areas. The Ministry of Health has launched emergency programs for the treatment of dependents and to combat drug trafficking. Recognition of dermatological signs of this disease is important because through them the diagnosis can be suspected and early treatment of patients with c...