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Screening for diabetic retinopathy: a comparative study between hospital and community based screening and between paying and non-paying patients.

BACKGROUND Prevalence of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy varies in the population considering the background and financial status. METHODS A total of 79,194 people more than 40 years, were screened for diabetes both in the community and eye hospital setting. Initial screening was carried out by urine dipstick followed by random blood sugar examination. A value > or =140 mg/dl of blood sugar...

The Bad Guys and the Good Guys in Petroleum Microbiology

There is more diversity among microorganisms such as bacteria than there is in the range of life from artichokes to zebras. Bacteria have successfully colonized virtually e very environment on earth because they can rapidly adapt to changing conditions, and use a large and varied number of nutrients to generate energy. How e ve r, until relat ively recently, the environments of many petroleum r...

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The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. Within this field, the notions of 'source domains' and 'target domains', 'invariance', 'mappings', and so forth have become a common, though not universal, vocabulary for discussing the lingu...

Paying the Hospital: Foreign Lessons For the United States

This special report synthesizes the findings of a Health Care Financing Administration grant which allowed the author to analyze hospital finance in six foreign countries and in the United States. The author identified the principal problems facing hospital owners, carriers, and governments in the United States, and he conducted lengthy field work abroad to learn how each country dealt with the...

Torts - Non-Profit Hospital Liable to Paying Patient for Negligence