The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Reference Method 9 (Method 9) is the preferred enforcement approach for verifying facility compliance with federal visible opacity standards. Supporters of Method 9 have cited its flexibility and low cost as important technological and economic advantages of the methodology. The Digital Opacity Compliance System (DOCS), an innovative technology tha...

We investigated the differences between elderly and under-65-year-old patients using the psychiatric emergency system. The following characteristics were more common in elderly patients than in younger patients: organic mental disorder, mood disorder, dementia, disturbed consciousness, no excitation, physical complications, no history of visiting a psychiatrist and no history of hospitalization...

background: providing high-quality care in the intensive care units (icus) is a major goal of every medical system. nurses play a crucial role in achieving this goal. one of the most important responsibilities of nurses is sedation and pain control of patients. the present study tried to assess the effect of nurses’ practice of a sedation protocol on sedation and consciousness levels and the do...

3. European Medicines Agency (EMEA)-Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 2009. Concept paper on the need for revision of note for guidance on clinical investigation of medicinal products in the treatment of depression with regard to treatment resistant depression. Available at: http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Scientific_ guideline/2009/10/WC500004861.pdf. A...

This study investigated whether personality plays a role in a condition called dental anxiety. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between dental anxiety (the negative response to the stress elicited from a dental interaction) and self-consciousness (the tendency to evaluate aspects of oneself that are subject to private and public display). The purpose of this study was to identi...

BACKGROUND A "4-D model" was recently described as a theoretical framework for categorizing trauma-related symptoms into four phenomenological dimensions (the experience of time, thought, body, and emotion) that can present either in the form of normal waking consciousness (NWC) or as dissociative experiences, that is, trauma-related altered states of consciousness (TRASC). METHODS The presen...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of ventriculoperitoneal shunting during clinical rehabilitation of chronic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients with disorders of consciousness following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty-five patients with disorders of consciousness following aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage who had underg...

The paper analyses the scientific research production of more than a thousand faculty members of Louis Pasteur University, large and well ranked in Europe. We take account of individual and collective determinants to explain individual productivity in terms of intensity and quality. We find that individual variables related to the position occupied are significant. The size of the lab plays neg...