Surgical disease is an important cause of preventable mortality and morbidity, but it is not clear how best to deliver surgical services to under-served rural populations in poorer countries. South Africa's policy is to restructure heath services, with district hospitals and health centres becoming the primary delivery vehicle for quality health care to all South Africans. Among other things th...

This case study documents a multi-level consultation regarding a district-led initiative, designed to increase the number of students starting 10th grade on track for on-time high school graduation. The case study focuses on one neighborhood high school (9th grade student N = 440) in an urban district in the Intermountain West. Consultation occurred with teachers, teaching teams, support staff,...

This qualitative study used the grounded theory method to investigate district nurses' experiences of caring for leg ulcers in accordance with clinical guidelines at seven primary health care centres in Stockholm, Sweden. Group interviews were conducted with 30 nurses. The results describe how district nurses strive to stay on track in order to follow clinical guidelines and remain motivated de...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this review is to construct a detailed account of the role of the district nurse (generalist registered nurse providing nursing care in primarily home settings) in providing palliative care, to determine if and how district nursing care provides effective care to such patients at home, and to examine the utility of a realist review for the above purpose. DESIGN Realist r...

OBJECTIVE To describe trends of felony sexual abuse prosecutions between 1992 and 2002 for two districts of a large urban city that differed primarily in their use of children's advocacy centers (CACs) for sexual abuse evaluations in children. METHODS Aggregate data for two districts of a large urban city were provided from 1992 to 2002 from the district attorney's office, child protective se...

This matter is before the Court on Defendant Google Technology, Inc.'s ("Google") Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff Search King, Inc.'s ("Search King") Complaint pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6). The matter has been fully briefed and is now ripe for determination. Upon review of the parties' submissions, and for the reasons set forth below, the Court grants Google's motion to dism...

In Chalk v. United States Dist. Court Central Dist. of Cal.,I a school teacher infected with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was allowed to teach in the classroom, despite the school system's desire to transfer him to an administrative position. This is the first case in which a federal appeals court interpreted a federal statute, the Rehabilitation Act,2 to include AIDS victims with...

that summarized the Research Disclosure reference. Defendants further argue that Astra had motive to mislead the examiner with respect to compound 21076. Defendants allege that 21076 was structurally as close or closer to quetiapine than other prior art compounds, and since Astra allegedly had data showing that 21076 was potentially an atypical antipsychotic, Astra had reason to “divert the Exa...

The present note includes 29 wild plants of Chhindwara District which are used as food by Gond and Bharia tribes of the District.