BACKGROUND People with Parkinson's (PwP) experience frequent and recurrent falls. As these falls may have devastating consequences, there is an urgent need to identify cost-effective interventions with the potential to reduce falls in PwP. The purpose of this economic evaluation is to compare the costs and cost-effectiveness of a targeted exercise programme versus usual care for PwP who were at...

BACKGROUND Public-private partnerships (PPP) could be effective in scaling up services. We estimated cost and cost-effectiveness of different PPP arrangements in the provision of tuberculosis (TB) treatment, and the financing required for the different models from the perspective of the provincial TB programme, provider, and the patient. METHODS Two different models of TB provider partnership...

PHONOLOGICAL MEAN LENGTH OF UTTERANCE AS AN INDICATOR OF TYPICAL AND IMPAIRED PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN ACQUIRING FINNISH Katri Saaristo-Helin University of Helsinki, FIN The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of the Phonological Mean Length of Utterance (pMLU) method to the data of children acquiring Finnish, for both typically developing children and children with a...

A 50-year-old man, who is an active smoker without a previous medical history, was admitted for recent dyspnea (New York Heart Association functional class III) and an episode of exertional syncope. His familial history included the sudden death of his mother at the age of 50. His blood pressure was 123/90 mm Hg; heart rate, 80 beats/min; peripheral oxygen saturation, 95%; and clinical examinat...

Abstract Heavy metals (HMs) are highly toxic water pollutants abundant in industrial wastewater. Herein, a bis[3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]amine (BTMSPA) cross-linked multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) nanomaterial (CQACNT) was synthesized by silanization of MWCNT-OH followed grafting positively charged quaternary ammonium groups (glycidyl trimethyl chloride (GTMAC)) an epoxide ring-opening reac...

Fractures are the dominant conditions for rainfall infiltration into slopes, which can aggravate instability of landslides. However, few studies have been conducted to analyze in detail and deformation characteristics creeping landslides with fractures. In view this, this study investigated a landslide Fu’ao Village, Wencheng County, Zhejiang Province China determine how fractures affect during...

Abstract People with pedophilia (PWP) are highly stigmatized. Public opinion is strongly pre-consolidated – it often assumed that every PWP commits child sex offenses. This presumption not only affects negatively. Research suggests this stigmatization may cohere actually committing Various recent studies have investigated different kinds of anti-stigma interventions and their effectiveness. Dir...