BACKGROUND Intentional self-poisoning with pesticides is a serious problem in many developing countries. It is a commonly used method among South Asians all over the world. AIMS To describe the circumstances and characteristics of suicides in Nickerie, e, in order to gain insight into why South Asians commonly use self-poisoning. METHODS An exploratory psychological autopsy study was conduc...

BACKGROUND Somatic severity of a self-poisoning episode varies widely between patients. AIMS To determine the correlates (psychiatric profiles, long-term outcome) of mechanical ventilation used as a proxy to define somatic severity during a self-poisoning. METHOD All patients who required mechanical ventilation were pair-matched with ones who did not for age, gender and presence of psychiat...

A new method was developed to detect sarin hydrolysis products from erythrocytes of four victims of sarin (isopropylmethylphosphonofluoridate) poisoning resulting from the terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway. Sarin-bound acetylcholinesterase (AChE) was solubilized from erythrocyte membranes of sarin victims, digested with trypsin, the sarin hydrolysis products bound to AChE were released by al...

In this work, pure and (Fe, Ni) co-doped Co3O4 nanostructured photoelectrodes of different doping levels thicknesses were manufactured at constant substrate temperature (450 °C) using the spray pyrolysis technique. addition to chemical compositions; structural, optical, electrical, photoelectrochemical (PEC) properties investigated through use various analysis techniques. By increasing codpoing...

DNS cache poisoning attacks have been proposed for a long time. In 2008, Kaminsky enhanced the attacks to be powerful based on nonce query method. By leveraging Kaminsky’s attack, phishing becomes large-scale since victims are hard to detect attacks. Hence, DNS cache poisoning is a serious threat in the current DNS infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a countermeasure, DepenDNS, to prevent...

The scour due to the highly turbulent tsunami inundation is also a major threat nearshore infrastructure [Nakamura, et al., 2008]. Research on local sediment erosion during events has shown correlation between formation, pore pressure variations, and soil liquefaction [Mioduszewski Maeno, 2003]. To understand structures’ capacity withstand bores, it critical assess formation variations around t...

Titanium alloys are widely used in industry, especially (α+β)-alloys, among which Ti-6Al-4V alloy is the most popular one. Another common that often appears patents for titanium products Ti-4Al-3Mo-1V. Here, we investigate welded joints of (α+β)-alloy Ti-4Al-3Mo-1V obtained by friction stir welding (FSW) using a working tool made nickel-based heat-resistant ZhS6U. In addition, and with similar ...

We study the Monte Carlo method for solving a linear system of the form x = Hx + b. A sufficient condition for the method to work is ‖H‖ < 1, which greatly limits the usability of this method. We improve this condition by proposing a new multi-way Markov random walk, which is a generalization of the standard Markov random walk. Under our new framework we prove that the necessary and sufficient ...

BACKGROUND Methods used at an index episode of non-fatal self-harm may predict risk of future suicide. Little is known of suicide risk associated with most recent non-fatal method, and whether or not change in method is important. METHODS A prospective cohort of 30,202 patients from the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England presenting to six hospitals with self-harm, 2000-2007, was follow...