OBJECTIVES To study the epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) in hospitalised children and adults in Gaborone, Botswana, and to describe the changes in antimicrobial susceptibilities of S. aureus isolates over time. METHODS A retrospective cohort study evaluated SSTI isolates from January 2000 to December 2007 at Princess Marina Hospital (PMH), a large ...

I n 1999, the President’s New Freedom Commission Report reported that nearly 14 million children were in need of mental health services, but the vast majority of these youth did not receive care. One underlying cause of the system failure was the shortage of providers for children with mental health needs, a shortage that continues, particularly among clinicians who prescribe psychiatric medica...

Operating at high efficiency is one of the prerequisites sustainable forest operations. Typically, harvesters are designed to operate in tree felling and processing operations under cut-to-length method. However, reasons such as limited business opportunities during year may negatively affect machine utilization rate. Coupled with ownership costs, this results economic sustainability problems. ...

Cable-based yarding technology has had a long tradition on steep slopes in Europe, and the new implementation of functions recent decades favored operational efficiency lower extraction costs. The main goal this study was to evaluate performance Syncrofalke 3t truck-mounted Processor Tower Yarder (PTY) terrain, coniferous forests managed with shelterwood system. In particular, aim determine PTY...

Maize is an important C4 crop and how it will respond to elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide ozone levels not well documented. To understand the growth nutritional quality of maize be affected under (CO2) tropospheric (O3) interaction, a field experiment was conducted free air O3 CO2 enrichment rings (FAOCE) growing HQPM-1 PMH-1 cultivars at New Delhi, India. Each cultivar exposed ambient (559 ...

establishment. There is a district general hospital about 5 miles away, with the usual facilities. The following patients present to you with problems related to their sport and training. training some months ago, she has only had one period, which lasted 3 days. Her menstrual cycle was previously regular, at 4/28. She is otherwise well, has no PMH of note, and is on no medication. On examinati...

The fabric of scholarly communication is undergoing radical change. Economic, legal, and technical tensions are straining traditional publisher and journal models. New technologies provide unexplored opportunities for new scholarly communication models. At Cornell Information Science we are exploring this problem from the perspective of social and technical interaction. Our work therefore invol...

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between eprint repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened, eprint repositories still represent a significant fraction of OAI data providers. In this article I present a brief survey of OAI eprint repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from eprint repositories using t...

increases in incidents involving so-called confused persons have brought attention to the potential costs of recent changes to public mental health (pmh) services in the netherlands. decentralized under the (community) participation act (2014), local governments must find resources to compensate for reduced central funding to such services or “innovate.” but innovation, even when pressure for c...