The public and healthcare payers are increasingly looking to specialty designations and certifications to determine the quality of cancer centers. The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification Program is one way for cancer centers to demonstrate commitment to high-quality patient care. Achieving QOPI certification for the author's cancer center was driven by a nurse-led quality...

OBJECTIVES It is especially difficult for hospitality workers to avoid secondhand smoke (SHS), meaning that they are likely particularly vulnerable the effects of SHS. The authors aimed determine degree which smoke-free laws protect from SHS exposure, by examining biochemical markers such exposure. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study exposure in non-smoking employees working s...

BACKGROUND Although tobacco use in the United States has declined over the past 20 years, cigarette use among college students remains high. Additional research is thus needed to determine how university tobacco control policies and preventive education programs affect college students' smoking behaviors. METHODS Approximately 13,000 undergraduate students at 12 universities or colleges in th...

BACKGROUND Nearly all California casinos currently allow smoking, which leads to potentially high patron exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke pollutants. Some argue that smoking restrictions or bans would result in a business drop, assuming > 50% of patrons smoke. Evidence in Nevada and responses from the 2008 California tobacco survey refute this assertion. The present study investigates the p...

“In counties having over 500,000 population, the judges of the circuit court shall, at such times as they shall determine, designate one or more of their number, whose duty it shall be to hear all cases coming under this act. A special court room to be designated as the juvenile court room, shall be provided for the hearing of such cases, and the findings of the court shall be entered in a book...

BACKGROUND The necessity and readiness for smoking cessation intervention in dental clinics was assessed by investigating smoking status and stage of behavior change in patients and the attitudes of dentists toward the effects of smoking on their patients, respectively. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was mailed to 1022 dentists randomly selected from the Japanese Dental Association...

We have analyzed the physical origins of the temperature gradient of the ordinary refractive index (dno=dT) of liquid crystals. To achieve a large dno=dT, high birefringence (Dn) and low clearing temperature play crucial roles. Based on these guidelines, we formulated two exemplary liquid crystal mixtures, designated as UCF-1 and UCF-2. The dno=dT of UCF-1 is 4 higher than that of 5CB at room t...

www.thelancet.com Vol 375 January 9, 2010 107 Smokers watching teams slug it out on the fi eld in pursuit of 2010 FIFA World Cup glory will have to think twice before lighting up. The South African Government has slapped an outright ban on smoking in all the stadiums where games are to be played. South African director of Health Promotion Vimla Moodley says that stadiums will be 100% smoke free...

We conducted 35 experiments for spatial measurement of marijuana aerosols in a current smoker's residential spaces. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations were measured every second at 1, 2, and 3 m horizontal distances from the smoker who performed prescribed 5-min smoking vaping activities. In each experiment, five SidePak monitors PM2.5 different angles facing front smoker, represent...

Designated verifier signatures were introduced in the middle of the 90’s by Jakobsson, Sako and Impagliazzo, and independenty patended by Chaum as private signatures. In this setting, a signature can only be verified by a unique and specific user. At Crypto’03, Desmedt suggested the problem of generalizing the designated verifier signatures. In this case, a signature should be intended to a spe...