BACKGROUND HIV counselling and testing (HCT) clinics have the potential to be entry points for recruiting populations at high risk for HIV infection for HIV prevention and treatment studies. Cohort data from key populations are crucial for HIV study site selection. METHOD This cohort study recruited clients at an HCT clinic in Bangkok, Thailand. HIV prevalence was assessed along with demograp...

Since the early 1970's, research has been done on the negative effects of divorce on children’s well-being and the intergenerational transmission of divorce risks in the USA. Especially the public opinion in the United States has been one of enormous concern for the effects on children, since divorce rates have developed strongly, and are still significantly higher than in any other country in ...

We examine a static one-riskfree-one-risky asset portfolio choice when the investor’s well-being is affected by the anticipatory feelings associated to potential capital gains and losses. These feelings can be manipulated by the choice of subjective beliefs on the distribution of returns. However, the bias of these endogeneous subjective beliefs induces the choice of a portfolio that is subopti...

OBJECTIVE To compare utility of employee well-being to health risk assessment (HRA) as predictors of productivity change. METHODS Panel data from 2189 employees who completed surveys 2 years apart were used in hierarchical models comparing the influence of well-being and health risk on longitudinal changes in presenteeism and job performance. Absenteeism change was evaluated in a nonexempt su...

BACKGROUND Decitabine was evaluated for its efficacy and safety in Korean patients with myelodysplastic syndrome with IPSS score of 0.5 or over. DESIGN AND METHODS Decitabine 20 mg/m(2)/day was given intravenously over one hour for five consecutive days every four weeks. The primary end point was overall response rate. RESULTS A total of 101 patients were analyzed. The International Prognos...

healthy hire effect (hhe) is considered as an epidemiological phenomenon, complicating the assessment of a true cause - effect relationship between occupational exposure and health status of workers. the current study was aimed at identification and elimination of hhe in the risk assessment of arterial hypertension (ah) in coal miners. overall, 1553 miners, working in west siberia, were enrolle...

balance sheet itself does not specify and show all the activities that a bank pays. because banks can do many swap contracts and obligations, exchange, and commitments outside of the balance sheet. to such activities and exchange that will not appear on the balance sheet, are saying off-balance sheet activities. these items are usually reported in the notes to the attached financial statements....

1. Factors associated with a lower rate of recurrent hepatitis B post-liver transplantation (LT) are negative hepatitis B e antigen and/or serum hepatitis B virus DNA pre-LT, hepatitis D virus superinfection, and fulminant hepatitis B. 2. Long-term intravenous hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) monotherapy can reduce the overall rate of recurrent hepatitis B to 20% to 35%. 3. Long-term lamivudi...

We report the overall rate, locations and predictive factors of positive surgical margins (PSMs) in 271 patients with high-risk prostate cancer. Between April 2008 and October 2011, we prospectively collected data from patients classified as D'Amico high-risk who underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Overall rate and location of PSMs were reported. Stepwise logistic regre...