İşyeri ekosistemi içerisinde yer alan tüm canlı ve cansız varlıkların sağlık, emniyet güvenliğini sağlamak için gerçekleştirilen çalışmalar yerine getirilen hizmetler iş sağlığı güvenliği olarak tanımlanmaktadır. İş güvenliğinin amacı çeşitli araçlar kullanılarak ramak kala olay, kazası meslek hastalığına neden olan tehlikelerin riske dönüşmesini engellemek tehlike ile tehlikeden kaynaklı riskl...

This study reports on findings of a pilot of community-based distribution (CBD) of injectable contraceptives in two local government areas (LGAs) of Gombe State, Nigeria. From August 2009 to January 2010, the project enrolled, trained and equipped community health extension workers (CHEWs) to distribute condoms, oral and injectable contraceptives in communities. The project mobilized communitie...

BACKGROUND Women who are not exclusively breastfeeding are at risk of pregnancy after four to six weeks of childbirth. Postpartum contraceptive use is crucial to prevent unintended pregnancy, and to have spaced births. The study was conducted to determine the magnitude of modern contraceptive utilization and factors associated with it among lactating women in Ganta-Afeshum district. METHODS A...

— We present simulations of the production cross-section measurement of top-antitop pairs in the di-leptonic decay channel with the ATLAS detector. This study uses the Commissioning Service Challenge (CSC) data, which is the latest and centrally produced Monte-Carlo data set to validate the detector simulation before the actual data taking. The signal process was generated with MC@NLO [1] and i...

BACKGROUND Family planning interventions are cost-effective and have several cross-cutting benefits. Despite these benefits of family planning, progress in ensuring universal access to family planning to women in developing countries has been slow. In light of this; this study investigated the prevalence and factors associated with contraceptive use in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia. METHOD...

A commentary on Questions about STDP as a general model of synaptic plasticity. In their recent Perspective Article, Lisman and Spruston (2010) succinctly describe the crucial shortcomings of spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) to serve as a unifying principle of synaptic plasticity. In particular, it is convincingly argued that postsynaptic depolarization rather than a somatic action pote...

Forty men, ages 16 to 78 years, with sex-offending behavior, were treated with combined medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), group therapy, and individual psychotherapy. Twenty-three are pedophiles; seven, rapists; and 10, exhibitionists. Five had sex-offending behavior that began after head trauma. The duration of MPA therapy, usual intramuscular dose 400 mg/wk, ranged from six months to 12 year...