A. Middeldorp (Ed.): Rewriting Techniques and Applications. Proceedings. LNCS 2051, pp. 154–168, 2001. c © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001 Abstract. We study the problem to transform functional programs, which intensively use append functions (like inefficient list reversal), into programs, which use accumulating parameters instead (like efficient list reversal). We give an (automatic) t...

Heroin overdose deaths have increased alarmingly in Chicago over the past decade. Naloxone, an opioid antagonist with no abuse potential, has been used to reverse opiate overdose in emergency medical settings for decades. We describe here a program to educate opiate users in the prevention of opiate overdose and its reversal with intramuscular naloxone. Participant education and naloxone prescr...

Urine iodine has been measured in the U.S. population by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) since 1971. A downward trend was noted between NHANES I (320 +/- 6 microg/L in 1971-1974) and NHANES III (145 +/- 3 microg/L in 1988-1994). This report presents data from NHANES 2001-2002 that indicates that the U.S. median urine iodine (UI) level has stabilized since the initi...

In this paper, a level set algorithm is employed for shape reconstruction of conducting objects in two-dimensions. Minimum a priori information is required about the unknown objects, which is a main advantage of the level set method. Therefore several objects can be retrieved from one single initial guess. As a preliminary attempt, the breast shape is reconstructed using the proposed method. Th...

OBJECTIVE Selecting controls is one of the most difficult tasks in the design of case-control studies. Hospital controls may be inadequate and random controls drawn from the base population may be unavailable. The aim was to assess the use of hospital visitors as controls in a case-control study on the association of organochlorinated compounds and other risk factors for breast cancer conducted...