cated to providing healthcare professionals with clinically relevant, evidence-based topics. Clinical Foundations is pleased to announce a webinar series featuring leading healthcare professionals. To find out more about the current webinar and to register, go to www.clinicalfoundations.org. Each webinar is accredited for CRCEs and CNEs. Richard Branson, MS, RRT, FAARC Professor of Surgery Univ...

This paper presents WAGS (Word Alignment Gold Standard), a novel benchmark which allows extensive evaluation of WA tools on out-of-vocabulary (OOV) and rare words. WAGS is a subset of the Common Test section of the Europarl English-Italian parallel corpus, and is specifically tailored to OOV and rare words. WAGS is composed of 6,715 sentence pairs containing 11,958 occurrences of OOV and rare w...

IntroductionOperating room workers are at risk of experiencing adverse effects due to occupational exposure waste anesthetic gases (WAGs). One the consequences long-term WAGs is probability developing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage. This systematic review investigated link between and DNA damage in operating workers.MethodsPubMed, Science Direct, ProQuest, Scopus, EbscoHost, as well hand-se...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was assessment the risk management status of waste anesthetic gases in academicals hospitals in Iran to prevent from harmful effects of these gases on employees' health. METHODS A descriptive-analytic study was designed in 2011. Standard structured checklist developed by ECRI institute (Emergency Care Research Institute) was applied. Checklists were filled ons...

This linguistics study aims to observe the development of norms in WhatsApp Groups (WAGs). Over years, linguists have devoted their time theorizing im/politeness evaluations and linguistic interactions computer-mediated communication (CMC). However, virtual not gained adequate attention. systematically documented examined conversations 539 members three WAGs describe group communication. The da...

The CNS (central nervous system) is unquestionably the central organ that regulates directly or indirectly all physiological systems in the mammalian body. Yet, when considering the defence of the CNS from pathogens, the CNS has often been considered passive and subservient to the pro-inflammatory responses of the immune system. In this view, neuroinflammatory disorders are examples of when the...

The two studies reported here explored the factor structure of the newly constructed Writing Achievement Goal Scale (WAGS), and examined relationships among secondary students' writing achievement goals, writing self-efficacy, affect for writing, and writing achievement. In the first study, 697 middle school students completed the WAGS. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit for thi...

This article deals with recent changes in UK guidance on clinical waste, in particular a shift to disposable, single-use instruments and sharps. I use interviews conducted with nurses from a GP practice and two clinical waste managers at alternative treatment and incineration sites as a springboard for reflection on the relationship between the legislation on clinical waste management and its i...

Medical waste poses a serious threat to the environmental health without comprehensive guidelines and efficient management as it contains highly toxic chemicals, pathogenic viruses and bacteria. Therefore, proper handling of medical waste with specialised treatment from its source to final disposal has been a primary concern among medical institute, public and private agencies. The existing med...