As a way of combating drug abuse in the military and in the workplace, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) promulgated guidelines for the testing of urine specimens for a number of drug classes, including opiates, specifically morphine and codeine. In the 1980s, an immunoassay screening cutoff of 300 ng/mL was established by both DOD and HHS. HHS also permitted ...

Abstract We performed a study to test the performances of Hybrid Heuristic Search (HHS) algorithm (Nagashima et al. 2014) using earthquake recordings at 23 instrumented sites in Switzerland. The HHS is based on diffuse field theory and estimates P- S-wave velocity profiles by inverting horizontal-to vertical spectral ratio (H/V) curves recordings. In this we inverted H/V computed arrivals local...

To generate a high-spatial-resolution hyperspectral (HHS) image from multispectral (HMS) image, both spatial information and spectral should be considered simultaneously if we want to build more accurate mapping HMS HHS. this end, jointed super-resolution method is proposed in letter using an end-to-end learning strategy for each subspace with the cluster-based multibranch backpropagation neura...

The cardiovascular effects of alcohol are well known. However, most research has focused on the beneficial effects (the "French paradox") of moderate consumption or the harmful consequences, such as dilated cardiomyopathy, associated with heavy consumption over an extended period. An association between the ingestion of acute alcohol and onset of cardiac arrhythmias was first reported in the ea...

Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome (WHS) is a rare genetic disease caused by deletion in the short arm of chromosome 4. It is characterized by typical fascial features and a varying degree of intellectual disabilities and multiple systemic involvement. Epidemiological studies confirmed the association of acute pancreatitis with the development of diabetes. However, this association has not been reported ...

BACKGROUND Twitter has emerged as a critical source of free and openly available information during emergency response operations, providing an unmatched level of on-the-ground situational awareness in real-time. Responders and survivors turn to Twitter to share information and resources within communities, conduct rumor control, and provide a "boots on the ground" understanding of the disaster...

BACKGROUND Randomized trials that sometimes serve as the basis for device approval are small, short term, and generalizable to an increasingly smaller percentage of patients. Some of the most common and challenging devices are those used in hip replacement. Artificial hips are implanted in thousands to alleviate pain caused by noninflammatory joint disease and to restore patient mobility. Durin...

PURPOSE Total hip replacement (THR) is one of the most successful and cost-effective surgical procedures and remains the treatment of choice for long-term pain relief and restoration of function for patients with diseased or damaged hips. Acetabular fractures managed either conservatively or operatively by fixation tend to present later with secondary joint changes that require THR. In this stu...

Recent actions by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) involving human embryonic stem cell research have rekindled debate over the difficult ethical and social issues surrounding embryo and fetal tissue research. Embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to develop into virtually any cell in the body, may have the potential to treat me...