: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact on the provision of non-COVID-19 related clinical services. Early recommendations for head and neck reconstructive surgery were based guidance from expert groups, advocating de-intensification surgery. Since then, patient outcomes derived data has suggested that continued practice upon pre-pandemic standard care safe if appropriate measures...

Kasugamycin which shows preventive effect on rice blast and low toxicity to plants and animals was discovered in a culture filtrate of Actinomycetes. The study on kasugamycin, as described in a previous paper15, established a new screening method to examine the inhibition of Piricularia oryzae growing in an acidic medium prepared with rice plant juice. Applying this screening method, a new anti...

We study the results of a descriptive and exploratory study, with the intent to understand the results of a 21 male schizophrenic patients interned in a Portuguese Mental Health Care Centre, evaluated with neuropsychological test. We tried also to link these tests with variables such as schooling, family contact or lengh of internment. The assessment instruments were: Digits Series and Vocabula...

More than 20% of U.S. paramedics are exposed to blood each year. Little is known about the circumstances that lead to these exposures. The objective of this study was to describe blood exposure events among U.S. paramedics. A mail survey was conducted in 2002-2003 among a nationally representative sample of licensed paramedics. Eighty percent of needle/lancet sticks involved non-safety devices....

Shellfish aquaculture is a widely practiced way of producing food for human consumption in coastal areas. When farming intertidal clams, farmers commonly protect young seedling clams from predatory losses by covering farmed plots with netting or screening. Recent discussion of the effectiveness of protective nets or screens and their environmental effects has raised questions concerning the uti...

The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of a Child Protective Services (CPS) screening and investigation process to identify children with developmental disabilities. The study used an emergent design, ethnographic interviews, purposive sampling, inductive data analysis, and grounded theory building. Ethnographic interviews were conducted with foster families, administrators, intak...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is an important part of worker protection during filovirus outbreaks. The need to protect against a highly virulent fluid-borne pathogen in the tropical environment imposes a heat stress on the wearer that is itself a safety risk. No evidence supports the choice of PPE employed in recent outbreaks, and standard testing procedures employed by the protective ga...

We were struck by the large reduction in breast cancer mortality reported by Coldman et al. in association with participation in Canadian mammography screening programs (1), in particular with the consistency in the sizes of the observed reductions across all provinces and across all age groups. Overall, they reported a 40% reduction in breast cancer mortality associated with ever participating...

In this study, chopping board meat samples collected from shops of Bharatpur Metropolitan City, Nepal, were screened for the presence Escherichia coli (E. coli), with a special emphasis on identification extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing strains. Representatives also interviewed to understand sanitary status and hygienic practices. E. bacteria detected in one third (33/99) samples,...

s In dieser Studie wird mithilfe des Stroop Tests untersucht, welche kognitiv protektiven Effekte Mehrsprachigkeit auf die Inhibition hat, indem Daten von deutsch und deutsch-polnischen Demenz betroffenen Personen (n=19) erhoben werden. Für Vergleichbarkeit der Ergebnisse werden zudem ein Sprachstandstest (Gagarina et al. 2010) Screening für Exekutivfunktionen durchgeführt (Lubitz/Niedeggen 201...