To monitor disease incidence and antibiotic resistance, effective, practical surveillance strategies are needed at the local level for drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (DRSP). Knox County, Tennessee, participates in three forms of DRSP surveillance: an active system sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta, Georgia); a novel county-sponsored system; and c...

Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the staff in the local and county law enforcement agencies in Palm Beach County who were extremely cooperative in supplying data on violent arrests and spent numerous hours in their already busy schedules to compile this critical information. Also, we want to thank the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office who was gracious enough to share their ...

The authors wish to thank the following faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) for their time and valuable contributions in reviewing the manuscript for this publication: Dr. Eldridge Collins, Agricultural Waste Specialist, Department of Biological Systems Engineering; Dr. Darrell Bosch, Assoc. Professor, Department of Agricultural and A...

INTRODUCTION Although county-level obesity estimates are necessary for planning and evaluating community-based interventions, the quality of these data has never been examined. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the reliability of the county-level obesity prevalence estimates from Wisconsin's 72 counties and to highlight the variation of obesity among Wisconsin counties. METHODS Obesity prevalence data...

The description of the Swedish system still needs to be improved. On page 10 it should be said that the Swedish health system has three administrative levels: The national level which has responsibility for law, regulations, monitoring, evaluation and some national state obligations like national disease control and drug registration and drug control; The county council level which has responsi...

Giraffaphaenops yangi n. sp. is described from a limestone cave named Shizikou Dadong, Tianlin County, northwestern Guangxi, China. It is the second species of this genus, which is the most morphologically modified in the tribe Trechini in terms of troglobiomorphy. So far, Giraffaphaenops ranges in a small karstic area in northwestern Guangxi. Of the two known species, G. clarkei Deuve, 2002 wa...

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a trade off between short run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting...) and long-run gains due to a higher chance of finding a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas characterized by larger cost of living and/or higher labor market tightness. We then test this model using c...

It is now well-known that the design of the ballot in Palm Beach County could have led to numerous mistakes in voting. Moreover, it is easy to show that the Buchanan vote in Palm Beach County is a substantial outlier considering the Bush and Gore votes in that county. Buchanan obtained about .8% of the vote, but his expected vote was probably no more than .2% to .3%. Indeed, statewide, Buchanan...

Over and again in our work on service integration, we have come up against a sobering conclusion—that pursuing the integration of human service programs is very hard and is fraught with challenges. Those who have managed to put together exemplar one-stop job centers or other integrated service models in places such as Kenosha County, Wisconsin, El Paso County, Colorado, Montgomery County, Ohio,...

background: mental disorders may lead to several complications in adolescents’ people whose compensation is very difficult and sometime impossible. they are prone to emotional problems. therefore, knowing prevalence of diseases and valid statistical technique is necessary to plan for prevention and control of diseases. methods: in this cross-sectional study; direct, synthetic, and post-stratifi...