A retrospective study of prostitutes in Singapore showed that they had received less antigonorrhoeal treatment with penicillin derivatives during the three month period before early syphilis was diagnosed than in other three month periods when they had not developed syphilis. This suggests that penicillin derivatives in doses sufficient to treat gonorrhoea will abort coincidental early syphilis.

Because unemployment benefit reforms tend to package together changes to job search requirements, monitoring and assistance, few existing studies have been able to empirically isolate the effects of job search monitoring intensity on the behaviour of unemployment benefit claimants. This paper exploits periods where monitoring has been temporarily withdrawn during a series of Benefit Office refu...

background and objective: the reliability and validity of monitors for self-monitoring of blood glucose are debated. we evaluated the analytical performance of accu-check active (boehringer mannheim, roche) which is one of the most commonly used monitors in iran. material and methods: we compared the monitor readings with the reference values by percentage of values within certain intervals of...

this study investigated the impact of using the technique of self-monitoring on non-academic efl learners’ composition writing. fifty female students studying english at navid english institute in shiraz, iran were chosen based on the results of a proficiency test. they were all 16-20 years old and were intermediate learners of english who were divided into two control and experimental groups a...

BACKGROUND Most patients who experience virologic failure (VF) on second line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low-middle income countries fail due to poor adherence rather than antiretroviral resistance. A simple adherence tool designed to detect VF would conserve resources by rationally limiting need for viral load (VL) testing and, in those countries with access to third line ART, the need fo...

The program-target method of the budget process made it possible to improve mechanism social and economic development, in particular, communities country's society as a whole. This has been used united territorial since 2017. Management account balances is an integral part daily analysis implementation expenditure budgets control over programs. introduction automation allowed for improving bala...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study used ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring to generate BP and heart rate (HR) profiles soon after stroke onset and evaluated the association between determined values and 3-month stroke outcomes. METHODS We analyzed 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring records from 104 patients with acute ischemic stroke. Ambulatory BP monitoring was attached at the second an...

The Lam Phaniang River Basin is one of the areas in Northeast Thailand that experiences persistent drought almost every year. Therefore, this study was focused on assessment severity and vulnerability Basin. evaluation based Drought Hazard Index (DHI), which derived from Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration (SPEI) calculated for 3-month (short-term), 12-month (intermediate-term), 24-mo...

The microbial water quality at two beaches, Hobie Beach and Crandon Beach, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA was measured using multiple microbial indicators for the purpose of evaluating correlations between microbes and for identifying possible sources of contamination. The indicator microbes chosen for this study (enterococci, Escherichia coli, fecal coliform, total coliform and C. perfring...