ements of comprehensive sex education. And, on that score, they have come in for some criticism: “I understand the importance of meeting schools where they are now,” says Debra Haffner, director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing, and former president and CEO of SIECUS. “Having said that...these standards will not fulfill young people’s needs for information and...

Over the past three decades more than 200 children have died in the U.S. of treatable illnesses as a result of their parents relying on spiritual healing rather than conventional medical treatment. Thirty-nine states have laws that protect parents from criminal prosecution when their children die as a result of not receiving medical care. As physicians and citizens, we must choose between prote...

The Applied Wound Management (AWM) framework utilises three different continuums, each relating to a key wound parameter: 8 Wound Healing Continuum (WHC): is represented by the tissues in the wound and is a colour-based continuum. 8 Wound Infection Continuum (WIC): is subdivided into named stages representing varying host responses to bioburden, each identified by clinical cues. 8 Wound Exudate...

Existing self-healing mechanisms for Web services constantly monitor services and their computational environment, analyze system state, determine failure occurrences, and execute built-in recovery plans (MAPE loop). We propose a more pro-active self healing mechanism that uses a multi-layer perceptron ANN and a health score mechanism to learn about the occurrences of failures or quality of ser...

background wound healing is a complicated and integrated process. researches have indicated the wound healing effects of calcium channel blockers in animal models in recent years. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the wound-healing activity of amlodipine as a calcium channel blocker and combination of amlodipine with phenytoin on excisional cutaneous wound models in rabbit. mater...

Understanding bone remodeling and mechanical property characteristics is important for assessing treatments to accelerate healing or in developing diagnostics to evaluate successful return to function. The murine system whereby mid-diaphaseal tibia fractures are imparted on the subject and fracture healing is assessed at different time points and under different therapeutic conditions is a part...

In this work, we venture out to develop self-optimization features in the Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework (DMARF). Here, we use the Autonomic System Specification Language (ASSL) to specify a self-optimization policy and generate the code for the same. This completes the first iteration of the autonomic specification layer for DMARF and enables re-engineered autonomic DMARF syst...

A New Objective for High Resolution Imaging of Bose-Einstein Condensates In the framework of this thesis a new imaging system for the measurement of the atomic density distribution in Bose-Einstein condensates has been built and characterized. The achieved optical resolution of 1.1 µm according to the Rayleigh criterion makes it now possible to observe structures on the scale of the so-called '...