The goal of the study was to compare the effectiveness of different suicide prevention measures implemented on bridges and other high structures in Switzerland. A national survey identified all jumping hotspots that have been secured in Switzerland; of the 15 that could be included in this study, 11 were secured by vertical barriers and 4 were secured by low-hanging horizontal safety nets. The ...

During the Noughties in the UK, we have seen a massive explosion in unsecured personal debt mirrored to a lesser extent by an exponential rise in secured debt. Much of the secured debt is attributed to an increase in Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW), that is, borrowing secured on the housing stock but not invested in it. In this paper, the question posed is: Does MEW exert positive pressure on ...

Multicasting can improve the efficiency of the wireless link when sending multiple copies of messages by exploiting the inherent broadcast property of wireless transmission. Although multicast routing algorithms in MANETs could be efficient in many situations, but the devices in MANETs are more vulnerable to attacks. In the areas where secured information is primary requirement then developers ...

AIMS To compare the degree of conjunctival autograft inflammation, subconjunctival haemorrhage (SCH) and graft stability following the use of sutures or fibrin glue (FG) during pterygium surgery. METHODS Prospective, observer masked, clinical trial. 40 eyes of 40 patients undergoing primary pterygium surgery with conjunctival autograft were allocated into two groups. Group 1 (n = 20) had FG (...