Objective – Few issues in athletics today receive more attention than drug and alcohol usage, especially when it comes to college athletics. The researchers seek to correctly address self-report biases related to banned drug usage and heavy drinking. Methods – The researchers employ an experimental measurement technique. Results –Their results suggest that an overwhelmingly greater percentage o...

BACKGROUND The north-east Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland are two of the six high HIV prevalence states in the country, and the main route of HIV transmission is injecting drug use. Understanding the pathways to injecting drug use can facilitate early intervention with HIV prevention programs. While several studies of initiation into injecting drug use have been conducted in developed cou...

PURPOSE To investigate the attitudes of senior anaesthetists toward issues of anaesthesia drug cost control, utilization, and education, and to determine patterns of drug use of common clinical scenarios. METHODS A questionnaire mailed to heads of anaesthesia departments in all large (> 200 beds) Canadian hospitals (n = 187). Data were analyzed with chi-square and t tests; P < 0.05 was consid...

Amaç: Ekstrakraniyal vertebral arter aterosklerotik hastalığı sinsi ve tehlikeli bir hastalıktır. Gelişen teknoloji artan tecrübelerle birlikte antiproliferatif ilaç salınımlı stentler orjininde stent içi stenozu azaltmaya alternatif oluşturmaktadır. Biz de çalışmamızda ostial stenozlarda uygulamasının teknik başarısını, etkinliğini, klinik anjiyografik sonuçlarını değerlendirdik. Hastalar Yönt...

We have developed and deployed several web-based tutors for C++ programming concepts. We have been remotely collecting usage data from these tutors, and analyzing them for the benefit of the students, the teachers and ourselves. In this paper, we will describe the tutors, the types of data collected, and the types of analysis we perform on the data for the benefit of the various constituencies ...

Background: One of the most important causes of chronic liver disease is hepatitis C virus (HCV), which causes liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. To control the prevalence of the disease, knowledge and information in risk factor of HCV are required. The aim of this study was to compare the risk factors of infection between HCV patients with genotypes 1a and 3a. Methods: This is an o...

While the use of Propofol has been increasing in usage for general surgical procedures since its release to market, there has been little work done on its potential link to neurotoxicity in humans. Only recently, following the release of a warning label from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) regarding a potential link to "neurotoxicity" in the neonate, did the surgical and ...