The past five years have witnessed many new developments on the urban travel forecasting model scene. Driven in part by ISTEA, our field has awoken from a lethargy induced by its neglect during the 1980s. A new program of model improvements was launched in 1991, only to be emasculated by a large-scale modeling initiative more related to the end of the Cold War than urban transportation planning...

Raiti, S., and Newns, G. H. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 692. Cretinism: early diagnosis and its relation to mental prognosis. A total of 141 cases of hypothyroidism diagnosed within the first two years has been reviewed. The best mental development was achieved when treatment was begun within the first three months of life. At this time hypothyroidism presents mainly with symp...

In the far-away homeland of Transkei there is poverty, malnutrition, and only the beginnings of economic development. But there is also a spar of hope and realism: its name is Kwazup -from kwa zondle uphile, which literally translated means "to feed yourself to be healthy." On a landscape of rondavels, mealie fields, and grazing cattle, where families struggle in the wet season to grow enough f...

THE fact that the stagnant air of an occupied room becomes uncomfortable and mlakes those who are exposed to it listless anid inert is a matter of common experience. W'hen overcrowding in a close unventilated space reaches a certain point the results nmay even be fatal within a few' hours, as in the Black Hole of Calcutta, the underground prison at Austerlitz and the hold of the ship Londonderr...

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between stress responses and lifestyle habit changes of elementary school students during a temporary leave absence from measures prevent spread COVID-19 infections. We surveyed 637 parents about their finally analyzed 510 subjects. Variance analysis, showed that there were significant differences in “irregular sleep,” “disordered eating ...

At necropsy, two patients with sickle cell trait and progressive motor and visual deficits, lethargy and coma showed infarctions of the deep cerebral white matter and brain stem. The findings in these patients and another reported in the literature suggest that subcortical infarctions may be more common in sickle cell trait than has been recognised and should be suspected in any patient with si...

A previously healthy 41-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 5-day history of anorexia and progressive lethargy. Laboratory findings showed hypercalcemia and renal failure. Serum calcium, phosphate and creatinine were 17.2 mg/dL (normal range 9.0-11.0 mg/dL), 10.4 mg/dL (normal range 6.0-9.0 mg/dL) and 3.8 mg/dL, respectively. Initial chest radiography and computed tomography show...

We present the case of a 73-year-old woman who presented with lethargy and a nonproductive cough. Computerised tomography of her abdomen revealed a 38-mm mass in the lower pole of her left kidney. She underwent a partial nephrectomy, with final histopathological analysis confirming the presence of a concomitant oncocytoma and papillary cell carcinoma. To our knowledge, this is the only case rep...