This pilot study examined whether giving stress reduction (SR) instructions to pregnant women would be effective in regulating stress, mood, and cortisol levels during pregnancy. Forty-one predominantly low-income Latina women, receiving prenatal services at a public county hospital, completed measures of stress and mood (depressive symptoms, positive and negative affect) and provided morning a...

BACKGROUND The new round of Healthcare Reform in China has implemented over 3 years since 2009, and promoted greatly the development of public county hospitals. The purpose of this study is to evaluate county hospitals efficiency before and after the healthcare reform, and further assess the reform effectiveness through the comparative analysis of the efficiency. METHODS Data envelopment anal...

Integrating GIS with Transportation Asset Management for More Efficient Management Track: Transportation Author(s): Vernon Miller, Richard Montague Vernon Miller of the Sacramento County Department of Transportation with Rick Montague of Hansen Information Technologies will present this discussion. Miller will describe how tightly integrating the County’s transportation GIS data with asset mana...

No legislation considered by Parliament since the passing of the Education Act, 1902, when the functions of School Boards were transferred to County and County Borough Councils, has created more widespread interest than t e oca Government Bill, 1928. In fact, for a generation there has been no Measure belore Parliament which has raised so many fundamental issues in the system and procedure of l...

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan 700, R.O.C. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University Kaohsiung County, Taiwan 840, R.O.C. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 811, R.O.C. E-...

J. Econ. Entomol. 84(2). 638-643 (1991) ABSTRACT Alate aphids (Homoptera: Aphididae) were collected at weekly intervals in 1988 in six California sugarbeet fields-three on each side of a boundary line which separates overwintered spring harvest beet fields in Solano County from fall harvested fields in Yolo County. Alate aphids landing on a yellow board during a 45-min morning collection period...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is endemic among the human population of Xiji County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China, where the prevalence is estimated to be between 2.2% and 3.6%. Government-run sheep abattoirs in Xiji County have closed in recent years and, as a consequence, slaughter is carried out mostly at rural market places. The market place in Xinglong Township, Xiji County, is home to...