There are various regimens available for prescribing insulin, which include but are not limited to basal bolus, split mixed, premix, and prandial therapy. Basal bolus, although termed ideal for people with type 1 diabetes, is often perceived as complex for management of T2DM. In order to provide primary care physicians with a simple algorithm for initiation and titration of insulin therapy, the...

OBJECTIVE Segmentation of populations may facilitate development of targeted substance abuse prevention programs. The authors aimed to partition a national sample of university students according to profiles based on substance use. PARTICIPANTS The authors used 2008-2009 data from the National College Health Assessment from the American College Health Association. The sample consisted of 111,...

Good quality base and sub-base material for road pavement construction is becoming increasingly scarce. Dolerite is one of the more abundant natural road building materials in South Africa. Yet, it seems that the road design and construction fraternity shy away from using it in favour of more expensive commercially produced crushed material – and so artificially increase the scarcity of natural...

Microbloging is an extremely prevalent broadcast medium amidst the Internet fraternity these days. People share their opinions and sentiments about variety of subjects like products, news, institutions, etc., every day on microbloging websites. Sentiment analysis plays a key role in prediction systems, opinion mining systems, etc. Twitter, one of the microbloging platforms allows a limit of 140...

This study examines the use of coercive sexual strategies by men and the outcomes of these behaviour for women. Using a sample of 541 college undergraduates, data were gathered from men on their use of three types of coercive sexual strategies and from women on their experiences with these same forms of behaviors. For women, there is a positive association between being sexually active, having ...

This article is the result of a discursive analysis pronouncements made during first year President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. Based on codification and categorization focused signifier love, we propose three general elements to analyze amlo ‘s politics. The these development We-Them, second love neighbor finally contingency working-through in construction sense people. Start...

Drawing from the queer theory, this article strives to understand scourge of gender-based violence against members homosexual community through a literature review. There is gap in understanding LGBTIQ. Additionally, there dearth research on GBV within social work fraternity despite profession’s mandate protect vulnerable groups. A comprehensive hate crime critically important current times whe...

Rubber dam isolates operating field and makes treatment less invasive and safer for the patient. The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice of using rubber dam among different strata of dental fraternity. This cross sectional survey was conducted at Dental section, Dow International Medical College; DUHS from November 2014 till may 2015. Four hundred questionnaires w...

Social scientists implicate high-status men as sexually objectifying women. Yet, few have investigated these men’s perceptions and accounts of their own experiences. Racial variation in gender relations in college has also received little scholarly attention. Analyzing 30 in-depth, individual interviews and surveys and two focus group interviews from Black and White men at a large university, w...

During the past 4 decades, the role of fraternities and sororities on college campuses has come under increasing scrutiny (see Clark, 1962; Jakobsen, 1986; Kuh, Pascarella, & Wechsler, 1996; Maisel, 1990; Winston & Saunders, 1987). Critics of the Greek system have pointed to research showing that membership in a fraternity or sorority is associated with higher levels of alcohol use (Wechsler, K...