We examined the use of a staff-completed measure, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), to record mental health problems in adolescents in local authority secure accommodation. It proved possible to train staff and implement completion of the HoNOSCA on 64 consecutive admissions. Interrater reliability was high. The HoNOSCA identified high levels of psy...

After major incidents and disasters psychosocial support for the people affected is urgent and sometimes predominant. To plan and train staff for psychosocial intervention European and national guidelines have been developed. The European Policy Paper "Psychosocial support in situations of mass emergencies" offers guidance for policy-makers and health-planners. The quality and time of early psy...

Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

Simple representations of KLR algebras can be used to realize the infinity crystal for the corresponding symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra. It was recently shown that, in finite and affine types, certain sub-categories of “cuspidal” representations realize crystals for sub-Kac-Moody algebras. Here we put that observation on a firmer categorical footing by exhibiting a corresponding functor betwee...

The unexpected and fascinating emergence of hyperbolic Coxeter groups and Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras in the investigation of gravitational theories in the vicinity of a cosmological singularity is briefly reviewed. Some open questions raised by this intriguing result, and some attempts to answer them, are outlined. Dedicated to Claudio Bunster on the occasion of his 60th birthday. To appear ...

0039-6028/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.susc.2009.07.045 * Corresponding author. Address: Reaction Kinetic tute of Nanochemistry and Catalysis, Chemical Resea Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 168, H-6701 Szeged, H fax: +36 62 420 678. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Kiss). The investigation of Rh, Mo and Rh–Mo nanosized clusters formed by physical vapor depositio...

1 Protozoology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 108, C. R. Avenue, Kolkata 700 073, India 2 Department of Microbiology, NRS Medical College, 138 AJC Bose Road, Kolkata 700 014, India 3 Department of Zoology, A. P. C. Roy Govt. College, Himachal Bihar, Matigara, Siliguri734 010, West Bengal, India 4 Director, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 108, C. R....

An ad hoc network can be envisioned as a collection of mobile routers, each equipped with a wireless transceiver, which are free to move about arbitrarily. In ad hoc wireless networks, even if two nodes are outside the wireless transmission range of each other, they may still be able to communicate in multiple hops using other intermediate nodes. However, the dynamics of these networks, as a co...