BACKGROUND Women have historically been under-represented in HIV research, partly due to ineffective recruitment strategies. OBJECTIVE To improve the existing understanding of recruitment for HIV-positive women based on a province-wide cross-sectional study. METHODS A survey was emailed to all site coordinators who recruited participants in a study involving 490 HIV-positive women living in...

Governor of Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Napolitano Superintendent of Public Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Horne Student Regent (voting), appointed to June 2004 ....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of mechanical patient lifts in reducing musculoskeletal symptoms, injuries, lost workday injuries, and workers' compensation costs in workers at a community hospital. DESIGN Pre-post intervention study. SETTING Three nursing units of a small community hospital. Patients or SUBJECTS Nursing personnel. INTERVENTIONS Mechanical patient lifts were mad...

Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002 We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to ex...

Purpose of the study: The purpose research was to explore association teachers’ particular and university factors enhance production.
 Methodology: design correlational. It descriptive survey research. Teaching personnel universities participated in this Teachers were selected from departments by stratified technique. self-developed questionnaire related variables used for data collection....

Nearly 30% of the approximately 700,000 military personnel who served in Operation Desert Storm (1990-1991) have developed Gulf War Illness, a condition that presents with symptoms such as cognitive impairment, autonomic dysfunction, debilitating fatigue and chronic widespread pain that implicate the central nervous system. A hallmark complaint of subjects with Gulf War Illness is post-exertion...

In order to research how to availably reduce the active power loss value in power grid system when the power system is operating, it offers a quantitative research in theory through conceiving the unbalanced losses of power grid system under the overloading bus as the investigative object, and establishing an active power loss mathematical model. It carries out online real-time optimal flow cal...