Homicides followed by suicides are rare yet devastating events. This study, for the first time, details the problem in Kentucky by linking coroner, medical examiner, vital statistics and administrative judicial data. In the three-year period 1998-2000, there were 492 firearm homicides in Kentucky, of which 32 (6.5%) were followed by a firearm suicide. All perpetrators who followed their homicid...

Lessons learned from the modern monsoon applied to interpretation of paleoclimate 1 records 2 3 Katherine E. Dayem, David S. Battisti, Gerard H. Roe, Peter Molnar 4 5 a. Department of Geological Sciences and Cooperative Institute for Research in 6 Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Campus Box 399, Boulder, 7 Colorado 80309, USA. [email protected], phone: +1 (303) 492-7296,...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity produces beneficial effects on health, but the exercise prescription needed to improve cardiovascular disease risk factors in free-living sedentary individuals remains unclear. METHODS Sedentary adults (N = 492, 64.0% women) were randomized to 1 of 4 exercise-counseling conditions or to a physician advice comparison group. The duration (30 minutes) and typ...

Granés, Carlos. 2012. El puño invisible. Arte, revolución y un siglo de cambios culturales. Bogotá, Colombia. Editorial Taurus. 492 p. ISBN: 978-958-758-394-6

The objective of this experiment was to determine the effect of a 5-day progesterone priming prior to a GnRH-PGF2alpha treatment on reproductive performance of anestrous goats. Thirty-six Mountain Black goats were randomly assigned in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement and were administered intravaginally on day -12, either with 300 mg progesterone inserts (CGPE and CGP) or with 0 mg progesterone (G...

BACKGROUND Although complex scores were recommended for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), acceptance in clinical practice is limited. In our Emergency Department a symptom-based algorithm for patients with suspected PE including computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and D-dimer testing was implemented. PATIENTS AND METHODS The cases of 492 patients presenting with either chest...

limit coverage, and they reap billions in excessive salaries, profits, and bonuses. Look at the facts: United Health earned $2.9 billion last year. WellPoint reported profits of $2.5 billion. For CEO pay, United Health Group’s Stephen Hemsley made $3.2 million. WellPoint’s Angela Braly made $9.8 million. It doesn’t stop there. Former United Health Group’s CEO, Bill McGuire, left his job in 2006...

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This study examined the effects of genetic and some non-genetic factors on total milk yield (TMY), test-day (TDM), pre-weaning (PRMY), post-weaning (POMY) using a 1167 lactation records (Damascus) does over years 1998 to 2001 at Al-Walla Agricultural Research Station, Ministry Agriculture. The General Linear Model (GLM) was employed analyze data. TMY, TDM, PRMY, POMY had respective overall aver...