The objectives of this study were to determine knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infections (URI) among students at different educational levels (Grade 12 students and high vocational students) and to examine factors influencing antibiotic use for URI. A cross sectional questionnaire survey was used with students in one large and one small city in ...

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OBJECTIVE To investigate the consequences of olfactory loss and explore specific questions related to the effect of duration of olfactory loss, degree of olfactory sensitivity, and cause of the olfactory loss. PATIENTS A total of 278 consecutive patients with hyposmia or anosmia were examined. RESULTS Causes of olfactory loss were categorized as follows: trauma (17%), upper respiratory trac...

Yoram Burak,1 Uri Rokni,1 Markus Meister,1, 2 and Haim Sompolinsky3, 4 Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA ...

Patterns, Probabilities, and People: Making Sense of Quantitative Change in Complex Systems Michelle Hoda Wilkerson-Jerde & Uri J. Wilensky To cite this article: Michelle Hoda Wilkerson-Jerde & Uri J. Wilensky (2015) Patterns, Probabilities, and People: Making Sense of Quantitative Change in Complex Systems, Journal of the Learning Sciences, 24:2, 204-251, DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2014.976647 To l...

BACKGROUND Inappropriate antibiotic use promotes resistance. Antibiotics are generally not indicated for upper respiratory infections (URIs). Our objectives were to describe patterns of URI treatment and to identify patient and provider factors associated with antibiotic use for URIs. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional analysis of medical and pharmacy claims data from the Pennsylvania M...

This document describes how to create a conference using SIP URI-list services. In particular, it describes a mechanism that allows a User Agent Client to provide a conference server with the initial list of participants using an INVITE-contained URI list.