It is not known whether employees who have diabetes mellitus lose more time from work due to sickness than non-diabetic employees. A study was undertaken to compare sickness absence in 91 diabetic with 91 non-diabetic employees matched for sex, age, and occupation. Although sickness absence was greater in the diabetic group this was not significant. Mean sickness absence for the diabetic employ...

We classify regular subalgebras of affine Kac–Moody algebras in terms of their root systems. In the process, we establish that a root system of a subalgebra is always an intersection of the root system of the algebra with a sublattice of its root lattice. We also discuss applications to investigations of regular subalgebras of hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras and conformally invariant subalgebras ...

Fresh blueberries are commonly stored and transported by refrigeration in controlled atmospheres to protect shelf life for long periods of storage. Ozone is an antimicrobial gas that can extend shelf life and protect fruit from microbial contamination. Shelf life of fresh highbush blueberries was determined over 10-day storage in isolated cabinets at 4°C or 12°C under different atmosphere condi...

OBJECTIVE Adolescents' leisure activities are increasingly focusing on Internet activities, and today, these coexist with traditional leisure activities such as sport and meeting friends. The purpose of the present study was to investigate leisure activities, particularly Internet activities, among boys and girls with ADHD, and compare these with boys and girls from the general population. The ...

Pediatric and public health history has demonstrated a brilliant and generally successful struggle against diarrheal disease. Particularly in the twentieth century, many countries all over the world with marked variations in geography, climate, and culture have experienced a progressive and notable decline in infant mortality due to diarrhea. The extent of this decline in some areas has been mo...

Pain is the most common reason people visit emergency rooms. Pain does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race or age. The state of pain management in the emergency department (ED) is disturbing. ED physicians often do not provide adequate analgesia to their patients, do not meet patients' expectations in treating their pain, and struggle to change their practice regarding analgesia. A re...

OBJECTIVE A Standardized Clinical Assessment and Management Plan (SCAMP) standardizes the care of patients with a predefined diagnosis while actively inviting and collecting data on clinician deviations (DEVs) from its recommendations. For 3 different pediatric cardiac diagnoses managed by SCAMPs, we determined the frequency of, types of, and reasons for DEVs, which are considered to be a valua...

In this paper we present a novel concept of emotionally grounded symbols, which gives information about the importance of objects for the survivability of an autonomous robot, in addition emotionally grounded symbol provides information about emotions that were experienced during learning as well. Using this concept we implement an Emotionally Grounded (EGO) Architecture on a quadruped robot, w...

In this paper, we look at long geometric progressions on diferent model of elliptic curves, namely Weierstrass curves, Edwards and twisted Edwards curves, Huf curves and general quartics curves. By a geometric progression on an elliptic curve, we mean the existence of rational points on the curve whose x-coordinate (or y-coordinate) are in geometric progression. We fnd infnite families of twist...

OBJECTIVE To assess the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) and to measure the impact of treatment adherence on disease complication, severity, crisis, and outcome. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study on patients with SCD who attended the Hematology Clinic at King Abdulaziz University Hospital from January 2009 to December 2011. We measured th...