Clinicians have been divided in their views on whether systematic needs assessment leads to an improvement in the outcome of care for people with chronic mental illness. Policy makers assume that assessment and evaluation will improve the clinical and cost-effectiveness of mental health services. Many of these assumptions are already embedded within mental health policy and practice. A decade o...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine whether abdominal fatness in adult men is associated with retarded growth in fetal life and infancy. DESIGN This was a follow up study of (1) men born during 1920-30 whose birthweights and weights at one year were recorded at the time by health visitors; and (2) men born during 1935-43 whose size at birth was measured in detail. The main outcome measur...

The application of Preston enrichment broth to isolation of 'thermophilic' campylobacters from water has been investigated. Enrichment substantially increased the yield of such organisms. The optimum timing for subculturing the broth was after 48 h incubation. Despite the addition of aerotolerant supplement to the broth the number and variety of isolates was greater when the broth was incubated...

Skirrow's medium is effective for isolating Campylobacters from human faeces but is less suitable for animal and environmental specimens owing to the presence of contaminating species. After determining the sensitivity of 104 strains of Campylobacters to several antimicrobial agents, used singly and in various combinations, a selective medium incorporating polymixin, rifampicin, trimethoprim an...

Free Electron Laser O. Ciricosta, a) S. M. Vinko, H.-K. Chung, C. Jackson, R.W. Lee, T. R. Preston, D. S. Rackstraw, and J. S. Wark Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK Atomic and Molecular Data Unit, Nuclear Data Section, IAEA, P.O. Box 100, A-1400, Vienna, Austria Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California...

David Brenner, Columbia University Antone L. Brooks, Co-Chair, Washington State University–Tri-Cities Evan Douple, National Academy of Sciences Amy Kronenberg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ernest G. Letourneau, Health Canada Jay H. Lubin, Co-Chair, National Cancer Institute Susan Preston-Martin, University of Southern California Jerome Puskin, Environmental Protection Agency Robert Rin...

1 School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Science, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2 Institute of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Worcester, Worcester, United Kingdom, CAPS UMR1093, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Dijon, France, 4 School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Pre...

1 PICU and Children’s Nursing Research Unit, Alder Hey Children’s NHS, Liverpool, United Kingdom Email: Lyvonne.tume@alderhey/nhs.uk 2 University of Central Lancashire, School of Health, Preston, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected] 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] 4 Schoo...

s of original papers are invited for presentation at the annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Chapter of the Society of Nuclear Medicine. Papers are to be 10 minutes. Please submit 200 word abstract before August 1, 1979 to: David F. Preston, M.D., Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Kansas University Medical Center, 39th and Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas 66103. For mor...

David Secor, Chair (Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) Mary Christman (Dept. of Statistics, University of Florida) Frank Curriero (Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) David Jasinski (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) Elgin Perry (Statistics ...