Non-specific urethritis is without doubt the commonest form of urethritis in men. The reported figures of cases of non-gonococcal urethritis for England and Wales, since they were first recorded separately in 1951, have steadily increased from 10,794 to 35,721 in 1968 (Department of Health and Social Security, 1969). The majority of these cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are non-specific in n...

Estimating the size of hard-to-reach populations is an important problem for many fields. The network scale-up method (NSUM) a relatively new approach to estimate these by asking respondents question, “How X’s do you know,” where X population interest (e.g., female sex workers know?”). answers questions form aggregated relational data (ARD). NSUM has been used variety subpopulations, including ...

In 2001, the No Child Left Behind legislature was introduced, along with the era of the highly qualified teacher. A highly qualified teacher meant that teachers not only had to graduate from an accredited teacher preparation program but also had to pass Praxis I and II tests. However, Praxis I became a test of elimination because teachers no longer had to pass Praxis I to be a highly qualified ...

Die von der neonazistischen Gruppe Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (NSU) ausgehenden Serienmorde müssen in einem rechtsterroristischen Zusammenhang gesehen werden. Dazu bietet sich ein Blick auf die Geschichte derartiger Gewaltphänomene vor und nach dem NSU an. So werden dessen Besonderheiten deutlich, ihn anderen Phänomenen unterscheiden. Es bestehen etwa Gewaltintensität, Kommunikation Org...

OBJECTIVES Assess the association between marine omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (n-3 PUFA) intake from supplements, mainly cod liver oil, and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality. DESIGN Prospective cohort study, with three exposure measurements over 22 years. SETTING Norfolk-based European Prospective Investigation into Cancer (EPIC-Norfolk, UK). PARTICIPANTS 22 035 men and women f...

This paper presents scale invariant static hand postures detection methods using extended HLAC features extractedfrom Log-Polar images. Scale changes of a handposture in an image are represented as shift in Log-Polar image. Robustness of the method is achieved through extracting spectral features from theeach row of the Log-Polar image. Linear Discriminant Analysis was used to combine features ...