A young nurse, undertaking a working holiday in Australia, sees a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl while doing a locum in a remote coastal community of the Northern Territory. The young girl has been brought in by her grandmother because she has discharge coming from her eyes. From the notes, the nurse sees that the child has had multiple presentations for ear and skin infections but is otherwise wel...

Few recent stories about teen pregnancy have been so compelling as the item that surfaced in June 2008 in Time magazine, and was then zoomed around the world’s media post haste. The location is Gloucester, Massachusetts – America’s oldest seaport. The venue is Gloucester High School. The protagonists are a 17-strong group of girls, aged 14–16 years, who over the past calendar year have become p...

'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night' Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars. As with most other media, the game industry tends to follow and expand on established lucrative formats to secure an established market share. Given the capacity of videoga...

A solution to the problem of eliminating the use of toxic reagents in the laboratories of the South African sugar industry has been sought for some time. This paper contains the results of an investigation to replace basic lead acetate as a clarification agent in the determination of pol by substituting it with a mixture of aluminium chloride and calcium hydroxide. This mixture achieves good cl...

High luminosity B-factories are &enerally high current ( I 3 A) e+estorage ring accelerators that operate at a center-of-mass energy equal to the mass of the Upsilon (4S) resonance ( 10.58 GeV). The high beam currents are achieved by storing a large number of bunches (several hundred to several thousand) into each beam. Two designs, the ones located at SLAC and KEK, also have asymmetric beam en...

The Relationship of Occupational Stress, Psychological Strain, Satisfaction with Job. Commitment to the Profession, Age, and Resilience to the.administered questionnaire was used to collect data on psychological strain. Psychological strain factory workers social relationship job satisfaction work.To determine the prevalence of acute strain and of repeated episodes of strain over 6and 12-month....

It is difficult for most of us to imagine making sense of the social world without automatically thinking about the beliefs, emotions, desires, and intentions of other people. Picture yourself in a preschool classroom. You see a boy and a girl rushing to the painting easels in the art area. The girl quickly dons a painting apron. The boy is turning his head back and forth with a frown on his fa...

Background: Puberty and its consequence changes are one of the most important events of each person's life. Knowledge and practice about puberty health lead to successful passage of this period. This study was aimed to determine factors predicting the knowledge and practice of girl students about puberty health in Tabriz high schools. Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional stud...