The duty to provide for the medical inspection ofchildren immediately before or at the time ofor as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in...

CHAINS OF REUSABLE ARTICLES by Ruth Carrasco-Gallego Submitted to the Departament of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Management and Statistics in partial ful…llment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) at the ESCUELA TÉCNICA SUPERIOR DE INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES. UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID September 2010 c Escuela Técnica Superior de I...

Purpose This study was conducted to evaluate whether a community pharmacist's assistance during the treatment of a patient with a chronic illness would help to discover and improve issues regarding the treatment. Method We employed a prospective intervention study with a control group. The patients ranging in age from 60 to 74, were using one of the six selected community pharmacies in the To...

The opinion of mind-body interaction has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, as exemplified by accumulating evidence indicating that physical health (body) is associated with emotion and emotion regulation (mind). Yet, the neural basis linking emotion regulation with physical health remains largely uninvestigated. Here we used magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural bas...

The presence of common physical comorbidities, their demographic and clinical correlates and impact on functioning was assessed in 100 patients with schizophrenia. The patients had a mean age of 35.12±10.7 yr with mean duration of illness of 8.3±0.58 years. Seventy per cent were detected to have a comorbid physical condition. Common conditions included hypertension (21%), diabetes mellitus (15%...

Computer worms pose a serious threat to computer and network security. Interestingly, they share many common tactics with biological pathogens with respect to infecting and propagating. In this paper, we study the six most common fatal infectious diseasesd measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, influenza and the diarrhoeal diseasesdto (1) determine the individual mechanisms and environmental...

BACKGROUND Perception of undesirable features may inhibit built environment use for physical activity among underserved families with children at risk for obesity. METHODS To examine the association of perceived availability, condition, and safety of the built environment with its self-reported use for physical activity, we conducted a cross-sectional analysis on baseline data from a randomiz...

OBJECTIVE To identify the early life predictors of childhood intelligence. DESIGN Cohort study of 10 424 children who were born in Aberdeen (Scotland) between 1950 and 1956. RESULTS Social class of father around the time of birth, gravidity, maternal age, maternal physical condition, whether the child was born outside of marriage, prematurity, intrauterine growth, and childhood height were ...

AIMS To investigate whether health-related functioning mediates the effect of psychological job demands on sickness absence in nurses. BACKGROUND Nurses face high job demands that can have adverse health effects resulting in sickness absence. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with 1-year follow-up. METHODS Data for 2964 Norwegian nurses were collected in the period 2008-2010. At baseline, p...

1. Forty-six flocks of commercially-reared Pekin ducks were studied to determine the effects of housing system and environment on the behaviour of farmed ducks and its correlation with physical condition. Houses differed predominantly in their ventilation, drinking, feeding and brooding systems, and were indicative of systems currently in use in the UK. 2. At 41 d of age ducks spent 15% of the ...