Infections related to modern surgical procedures present a difficult problem for contemporary medicine. Infections acquired during surgery represent a risk factor related to therapeutical interventions. Eradication of microorganisms from hospital operating theatre environment may contribute to reduction of infections as the laminar flow air-conditioning considerably reduces the number of microo...

This paper uses findings from five nationally representative surveys of high school seniors from 1975 through 1979 to examine the correlates of licit and illicit drug use, and to consider whether recent changes in youthful drug use are linked to any changes in the correlates. Males still exceed females in use of alcohol and marijuana, but no longer in cigarette smoking. Black seniors now report...

OBJECTIVE The authors' goal was to determine whether the pattern and severity of depressive symptoms predict response to light treatment for seasonal affective disorder. METHOD Subjects with winter depression (N = 103) were given bright light treatment. Seventy-one were classified as responders, 15 as nonresponders, and 17 as partial responders. Using depression rating scale data and correlat...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to look at accident and emergency (A&E) attendances and admissions after assault in the West Midlands NHS region across a wide range of acute units. METHODS This study used data from two sources, the A&E Minimum Data Set and the Hospital Episode Statistics database. Analyses were based on data from 12 of the 21 acute trusts in the West Midlands NHS regi...

College student alcohol abuse remains a significant public health problem, and there is a need for theory-driven and empirically based models to guide prevention efforts. Behavioral theories of choice assume that the decision to consume alcohol is influenced by the relative value of alcohol versus other available activities. In the present study, a sample of college student drinkers (N=108; 56%...

The authors of this study investigated whether fluid cognitive ability predicts exposure and emotional reactivity to daily stressors. A national sample of adults from the Midlife in the United States study and the National Study of Daily Experiences (N = 1,202) who had a mean age of 57 years (SD = 12; 56% women, 44% men) completed positive and negative mood reports as well as a stressor diary o...

The patient, I. B., a Hindu male, aged 27 years, is by occupation a muleteer in the Falam, Chin Hills. He was quite well up to the 31st January, 1924. On the 1st February, 1924, he felt giddy, had a rigor followed by fever and pains all over the body. He had a mark on tJie third knuckle of his right hand which he stated was caused by a prick from a thorn, whilst collecting grass in the jungle t...

In broadcast spawners, prezygotic reproductive isolation depends on differences in the spatial and temporal patterns of gamete release and gametic incompatibility. Typically, gametic incompatibility is measured in no-choice crosses, but conspecific sperm precedence (CSP) can prevent hybridization in gametes that are compatible in the absence of sperm competition. Broadcast spawning corals in th...

A two-and-a-half-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with an upper respiratory tract infection and increasing breathing difficulties over the past 24 h. His health was normal until two months before presentation. Since then, his parents noticed progressive (although fluctuating) motor weakness, trouble chewing and swallowing as well as episodes of choking on his secretions. His s...

Staying vigorous throughout the day is important for work related behaviour, subjective well being, and for effective functioning in the family domain. This study examined trait vigour (i.e. a person’s general level of vigour), day specific workload (time pressure, work hours), and recovery resulting from unwinding during leisure time as predictors of day specific vigour as experienced at the e...