objectives to examine the military service predictors resulting in worsening drug abuse status. patients and methods a cross-sectional study with 3140 young soldiers was conducted in summer and autumn of 2010 and; the participants completed three questionnaires, namely the texas christian university drug screen (tcuds) ii, the addiction severity index and a questionnaire designed by the researc...

in developing countries, it is common to site (or locate) industries without environmental impact assessment. in this study the impacts of two food processing industries on land use and land capability, noise and vibration, environmentally sensitive areas and visual quality as environmental elements were investigated. the research method adopted was the investigative survey research approach (i...

With the detection of the complex and changeable environment, wireless multimedia sensor network is therefore arise, as a new information processing and access to technology, wireless multimedia sensor networks compared to traditional sensor network its more attention with video, images, and other large amount of information and high density of data collection and processing, also therefore in ...

We assessed the prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) in a large cohort of military children. We compared BMI data from electronic medical records of military children aged 2 to 18 years with BMI data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). The 23,778 military children studied were significantly less likely than the NHANES children to be overweight (27.1% vs 31.8%...

The future satellite positioning/navigation systems (i.e. GPS and Galileo) will provide civil signals on multiple frequencies, similar to those currently available for military purposes only. This paper presents a direct RF sampling front end design well suited for multiple frequency satellite navigation receiver design. No frequency downconversion is necessary; rather the particular frequency ...