background as one of the most important components of harm reduction strategy for high-risk groups, following the hiv epidemics, methadone maintenance treatment (mmt) has been initiated in prisoners since 2003. in this paper, we aimed to assess the advantages and shortcomings of the mmt program from the perspective of people who were involved with the delivery of prison healthcare in iran.   me...

The increasing availability of data sets with a huge amount of information, coded in many different features, justifies the research on new methods of knowledge extraction: the great challenge is the translation of the raw data into useful information that can be used to improve decisionmaking processes, detect relevant profiles, find out relationships among features, etc. It is undoubtedly tru...

the objective of this study was to analyze spatial patterns of ground-level ozone concentrationin the dallas-fort worth, texas metropolitan area. average daily maximum eight-hour ozone concentration,number of days with concentrations exceeding 75 ppb, average outside air temperature, and resultant winddirection at 20 monitoring stations were compiled for january-december, 2013. recent estimates...