BACKGROUND The commencement of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) in 2005 represents a quantum leap in the management of heroin dependence in Malaysia. OBJECTIVE To examine the 2-year outcomes of this modality in the treatment of heroin dependence with respect to the quality of life (QOL), heroin abstinence, and rate of employment among heroin dependants attending the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hos...

Compass is the maintenance quality assurance program developed and implemented statewide by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) since 2002. This program provides a comprehensive overview of highway operations conditions based on analysis of data from field reviews, condition surveys, and expenditures. Compass reports are tools to visualize and communicate trends and conditions, ...

Program affordability needs to be built-in at the initial concept formulation stage. For NASA’s space exploration vision this is critical for long range sustainability of human presence in space. What is often overlooked in the initial concept formulation of a large scale system endeavor such as NASA’s Constellation program is the hidden cost of maintaining requisite operational safety margins ...

Desire2Move (D2M) was an 8-week team based program designed to encourage physical activity among university employees. The purpose of this study was to conduct a RE-AIM evaluation of the program. Eligible participants were university employees and tracked daily physical activity minutes using a mobile app or a pedometer and total team minutes were calculated. Ten weeks after D2M, an online surv...

The reliability of a transmission and distribution system can be significantly improved by employing a predictive maintenance program. For such a program to succeed, the condition of the total system must first be established. This has been accomplished by applying a totally passive diagnostic technique that analyzes radio frequency (RF) pulses emitted by a cable system while it is energized in...

A software program is described which will enable laboratory managers to calculate, for their laboratory over a 12 month period, the cost of each test or investigation and of components of that cost. These comprise the costs of direct labour, consumables, equipment maintenance and depreciation; allocated costs of intermediate operations--for example, specimen procurement, reception, and data pr...

Program slicing is one of the techniques of program analysis that allows an analyst to automatically extract portions of programs relevant to the program being analyzed. It is an alternative approach to develop reusable components from existing software. It is a very important part of software development and maintenance. It is used in a number of applications such as program analysis, program ...