1976 IIW Annual Assembly

Annual report for 1976 of the Belfast Poisons Information Service.

The Casualty Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital has continued to make available information about potential poisons to doctors in Northern Ireland. When the basic information is not sufficient, the enquirers are referred to a panel of experts who do their best to help. The basic information used by the Service is provided by Dr. Goulding, of the Poisons Information Service, New Cross Hos...

Annual Report of the Iowa Academy of Science 1976-77

American academy of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 71st annual assembly.

although no conclusive supporting evidence for that has been gathered to date, Dr. Cullis said. In a prospective, placebo-controlled, double-blind study conducted at 37 centers in the U.S., investigators assessed the efficacy and safety of Xeomin in patients with cervical dystonia. Patients (n = 233) were randomly assigned, in a 1:1:1 ratio, to receive intramuscular (IM) injections of 120 U (n ...

Pso-iiw for Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch

This paper presents a Particle Swarm Optimization with Improved Inertia Wight (PSO-IIW) for Combined Heat and Power Economic Dispatch (CHPED) problem. The proposed PSO-IIW technique, which is a population based global search and optimization technique, has been developed to solve the CHPED problem. The CHPED problem is formulated as an optimization problem which is solved by the PSO-IIW techniq...

Op-brai120248 1976..1988

This article reviews the treatment of functional neurological symptoms during World War I by Lewis Yealland at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. Yealland was among the first doctors in Britain to incorporate electricity in the systematic treatment of shell shock. Our analysis is based on the original case records of his treatment of 196 soldiers with functional mo...