Background: Needle stick injuries remain the main cause of Hep B, Hep C and HIV which lead to mortality and morbidity in health care providers especially in nurses all over the world. Although needle stick injuries have been well studied in developed countries, data from developing countries is limited. Aim & Objectives: To estimate the prevalence of needle stick injuries among nurses and its a...

Objective: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices among health care workers on needle stick injuries. Methods: A 15-item questionnaire was administered to seventy health care workers including nurses and paramedical staffs from different departments of Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital to measure knowledge, attitude and practices on needle stick injuries....

It is important to study the species-abundance distribution pattern in a community reveal mechanism of assembly. Six abundance models (log-normal model, Zipf Zipf–Mandelbrot broken stick niche preemption and Volkov model) were used fit six scales (10 m × 10 m, 20 40 ×40 60 80 100 m) fixed, semifixed, mobile sand dunes Gurbantünggüt Desert, respectively. The best-fitting model was determined usi...

We study numerically stick slip motions in a model of blocks and springs being pulled slowly. The sliding friction is assumed to change dynamically with a state variable. The transition from steady sliding to stick-slip is subcritical in a single block and spring system. However, we find that the transition is continuous in a long chain of blocks and springs. The size distribution of stick-slip...

Peter Kilroy King’s College London London, UK Abstract Drawing on the ields of postcolonial studies and media theory, this article analyzes Frances Calvert’s 1990 documentary, Talking Broken, which, inter alia, looks at the role of space, place and media amongst Australia’s “other” Indigenous community, Torres Strait Islanders. he article explores the historical and geographical complexity of t...

This short fictional story aims to highlight the continuing difficulties and frustrations that UK veterans their families face in getting help support they need deserve around mental health substance misuse issues.