BACKGROUND Excessive alcohol use accounted for an estimated average of 23,000 deaths and 633,000 years of potential life lost (YPLL) among women and girls in the United States each year during 2001-2005. Binge drinking accounted for more than half of those deaths and YPLL. Binge drinking also is a risk factor for many health and social problems among women and girls, including unintended and al...

This report includes trends in reported cases of AIDS; trends in prevalence and incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) infection; status of HIV-1 antibody surveys; data on HIV-2; and a comparison of AIDS mortality and years of potential life lost (YPLL) with other major diseases. By March 14, 1988, a total of 56,212 cases of AIDS had been reported in the US; nearly 10,000 of ...

There is limited research about head injury. In this existing data study, 2443 admission records of 28367 patients that confer to Loghman Medical Center from 1986-1991 were analyzed. Several factors including age, sex, type and cause of injury, mortality and morbidity were investigated. Overall, the most common age group were 20-40 years, but the most common age group in female patients were 3-...

The User Requirements Notation (URN), standardized by the International Telecommunication Union in 2008, is used to model and analyze requirements with goals and scenarios. This paper describes the first ten years of development of URN, and discusses ongoing efforts targeting the next ten years. We did a study inspired by the systematic literature review approach, querying five major search eng...

Angaran: We have two main goals in this panel discussion. First, to describe the current status of the health care delivery environment, the medication use system, and the pharmacy profession. And second, to discuss the specific challenges and opportunities for pharmacy over the next 5–10 years. Our hope is that you identify at least one specific action that you can apply that will catalyze cha...

For eleven years I have led teams, designed solutions, migrated data, developed, documented, tested and deployed Telecommunication, Insurance and Financial applications on Unix and Microsoft platforms in Java, C, C++ and other languages. I am recognized as a problem solver. My ability to quickly pick up new technologies and identify the needs of projects is always an advantage. Managers make in...

The chain ladder (volume-weighted average development factor) is perhaps the most widely used of the link ratio (age-to-age development factor) techniques, being popular among actuaries in many countries. The chain ladder technique has a number of interesting properties. We present one such property, which indicates that the chain ladder doesn’t distinguish between accident years and developmen...

Ten years ago, computer security was an arcane discipline that many academics did not see as an interesting or deep research area. Today, that perception has changed. Information assurance and computer security touch every aspect of our lives, and the interconnections with more traditional academic disciplines such as analysis of algorithms, operating systems, and network protocols have convinc...

The element lithium has been discovered 200 years ago. Due to its unique properties it has emerged to play a vital role in industry, esp. for energy storage, and lithium-based products and processes support sustainable technological developments. In addition to the many uses of lithium in its inorganic forms, lithium has a rich organometallic chemistry. The development of organometallic chemist...

Perhaps the most pertinent comment to be made in connection with the publication of this text is the fact that it need be published at all; that knowledge of a disease of such long history should within such a short time expand to the point where biennial publication of a text on its treatment can be justified. With but slight changes in title, but changes which in themselves are significant, t...