Self-poisoning with licit or illicit opioids, alcohol or other prescribed drugs affects mostly young people, but also older patients are at risk for self-poisoning and suicide. This study investigates suicide methods and drugs involved in 2342 Swedish patients and compares different age categories regarding drug use and causes of death included suicide. All consecutive patients who had been tre...

Background: This study sought to characterise acute poisoning cases seen in three health districts of Botswana. Method: A retrospective review of patients’ records was conducted and included patients treated from January 2004 to December 2005. Data on the demographic status of the patients, information about the poisonous agent(s) involved, and the circumstances and outcomes of the poisoning in...

The differential game method effectively reflects the multi-agent, long-term, and dynamic characteristics of combating regional desertification. Considering differences in levels economic development level governance technology between adjacent areas, three desertification-combating modes are proposed for exploratory purposes. models two regions desertification areas constructed as per certain ...

Chronic lead poisoning is a well-known clinical entity which is now becoming uncommon as a result of improvements in industrial hygiene applied to workers with lead. The patient with chronic lead poisoning presents commonly with abdominal pain and constipation, less commonly with a neuropathy, and rarely with a refractory anaemia. Encephalo-pathy due to lead poisoning is common in childhood but...

Recently low-voltage and low-noise analog circuits with sub100nm CMOS devices are strongly demanded for implementing mobile digital multimedia and wireless systems. Reduction of supply voltage makes it difficult to attain a signal voltage swing, and device deviation causes large DC offset voltage and 1/f noise. This paper describes noise reduction technique for CMOS analog and RF circuits opera...

Over the past few years Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology has taken the realms of communications circuit design to new levels. This paper demonstrates the design and simulation of a very high speed Flash Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) for UWB applications. The ADC was implemented in 90 nanometre (nm) CMOS design process. The converter works at an optimal sampling rate of 4.1 Gig-Samples per s...

A bandgap reference (BGR) and sub1V BGR circuits for Picowatt LSIs is proposed here. The circuits pertains pico-ampere current reference circuit, a bipolar transistor, and proportional-to-absolute-temperature (PTAT) voltage generators. The circuits neglect resistors and contain only MOSFETs and one bipolar transistor. As the sub-BGR circuit divides the output voltage of the bipolar transistor ...

OBJECTIVES To report the frequency and clinical outcomes of Amanita phalloides poisoning in the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales, and the treatments used (including silibinin). DESIGN, SETTING AND PATIENTS Retrospective case series of patients admitted to public hospitals in Canberra and Sydney for suspected A. phalloides poisoning between 1999 and 2012 (identified from hospit...

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of pesticide poisoning in South Korea and the relevant epidemiologic characteristics. During the period of 1996–2005, an approximate average of twenty-five hundred fatalities occurred per year due to pesticide poisoning, while age-standardized mortality rates by pesticide poisoning significantly increased from 4.42 to 6.42 per 100,000 popula...