Problem, research strategy, and findings Here we illuminate the often overlooked, yet pernicious impacts of corruption in planning. We used a sequential mixed-methods approach, inclusive survey 82 planning practitioners Ghana semistructured interviews with 17 these respondents, to investigate planners’ experiences corruption. found that incentives for corrupt behaviors, structured by particular...

HIV-positive women are entitled to sexual and reproductive health rights, including access to contraceptives of their choice. One such option is sterilisation. Given its permanency, a woman’s decision to sterilise should be voluntary and fully informed. However, there have been multiple reports that HIV-positive women are being sterilised without their informed consent, and sometimes without th...

The various palliative treatments formerly employed in cases of inoperable carcinoma of the cervix have proved so unsatisfactory that any improvement should be hailed with joy by the profession. Reports of the success of radium treatment, therefore, deserve attention and investigation, since these reports have appeared in the last few years with such frequency that the method may now be conside...

Peer-to-peer storage architecture aims to aggregating the storage of individual computers (peers) to form a universal shared storage space, in which all peers undertake identical roles. The fully distributed nature of such architecture makes it possible to support features such as scalability at a global scale, self-configuration and dynamic adaptation, permanency, fault tolerance, and anonymit...

One hundred nine trigger fingers in 102 patients were reviewed with respect to management plan and response to treatment. Thirty-four digits eventually underwent surgical release of the A1 pulley, while the other 75 digits were treated with local steroid injection only. All patients were evaluated with respect to clinical resolution of symptoms, dollar cost of treatment, and general satisfactio...

Avulsion is defined as the complete displacement of the tooth out of its socket with disruption of the fibers of periodontal ligament, remaining some of them adhered to the cementum and the rest to the alveolar bone. This condition is more frequent in young permanent teeth, because the root development is still incomplete. Splints are used to immobilize traumatized teeth that suffered damage in...

It is therefore wholly to its credit tha t Bell's book is so largely abstract . In this way he has secured the utmost generality and hence insured permanency to his work. There is also the following important immediate gain. After constructing abstract theories for various classes of problems, he was in a position to decide if those theories are distinct or are (abstractly) identical. In the la...