This is the first of a series of publications to inform drug service planning and provision by presenting results from the Department of Health’s Black and minority ethnic drug misuse needs assessment project that was conducted throughout England in three phases during 2000-2001, 2004-2005, and 2006. This project employed the Centre for Ethnicity and Health’s Community Engagement Model to train...

Lately, I’ve been watching television, and one of the people I see on it a lot is Tina Turner. Now Tina may seem to be an odd person to introduce into a central bank conference, but her songs have titles that fit pretty well with some of the issues raised by this Conference. First up, there is the line that she belts out on television in support of the local football code, while standing on wha...

BACKGROUND Arthroscopic rotator cuff repair is one of the most commonly performed procedures in the orthopaedic specialty. The goal of this study was to evaluate the effect(s) of surgical experience on efficiency and patient outcomes after double-row rotator cuff repair. METHODS A retrospective review of 69 consecutive patients with large rotator cuff tears who underwent double-row arthroscop...

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OBJECTIVE To assess whether the clinical experience of undergraduate medical students relates to their performance in final examinations and whether learning styles relate either to final examination performance or to the extent of clinical experience. DESIGN Prospective, longitudinal study of two cohorts of medical students assessed by questionnaire at time of application to medical school a...

We describe the introduction of Lotus SametimeTM, an instant messaging (IM) product, in an organization. This brief report analyzes the development of several aspects of user experience over a 24-month period: (1) savings in the use of other communication channels, (2) growth in messaging behaviors, (3) change in messaging partners, and (4) beliefs about the value of the product. Although IM is...

The present paper highlights how Michael Chabon’s novel Final Solution focuses on the Holocaust Experience in twenty-first century American Literature. is known as Shoah was genocide of European Jews during World War II between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany. Its collaborators systematically murdered six million across German occupied Europe around two-thirds Europe's Jewish population. segregatio...