OBJECTIVE ADHD is managed by stimulants that are effective but can cause growth retardation. Prescribers should ideally monitor children and trial a "drug holiday" to enable catch-up growth. Our aim was to map the experience of drug holidays from ADHD medication in children and adolescents. METHOD A comprehensive search of the literature identified 22 studies published during the period 1972 ...

background: every year, eating, exercise, work, and travel patterns change during the holidays and these behavioral changes at a larger scale may cause death due to cardiovascular disease (cvd). considering the importance of cvd, the present study was conducted for the first time in iran to determine the differences in the ratio of deaths due to cvd on holidays and working days. materials and m...

It is worth noting that increased credit risks imply increasing interest rates on credit. In the paper, we study the possibility to apply the tax holidays mechanism (on corporate profit tax) for a compensation of high-level interest rates. Tax holidays have been used until present days in South-eastern Asia, Eastern Europe and some Western European countries. One of the most successful applicat...

This study compared weight control strategies during the winter holidays among successful weight losers (SWL) in the National Weight Control Registry and normal weight individuals (NW) with no history of obesity. SWL (n = 178) had lost a mean of 34.9 kg and had kept > or = 13.6 kg off for a mean of 5.9 years. NW (n = 101) had a body mass index of 18.5-24.9 kg/m(2). More SWL than NW reported pla...

This paper presents the application of interval type-2 fuzzy inference systems (IT2FIS) in short term load forecasting (STLF) on special days. This is a continuation work of application interval type-2 fuzzy systems (IT2FSs) using Karnik Mendel algorithm. Special days here mean local Balinese holidays such as national and local culture-based public holidays, consecutive holidays, and days prece...

Major European tour operator groups have been developing and installing new systems and corporate networks as well as links between these and other information and reservation systems in the travel and tourism industry during the most recent years. It is argued that these new system strategies are a key part of overall strategies to re-engineer their business activities both in the production a...

This short note aims to update the model of Dubois and Ben Lakhdar (2007) which showed the significant impact of holidays on the turnout at French presidential elections. The main result of this update is that holidays are still relevant in the explanation of turnout after the sample was expanded in both spatial and temporal dimensions. More precisely, estimations from a sample composed of the ...

In the beginning Originally from Country Victoria, I was very pleased to secure a position in my home town as Deputy Health Information Manager (HIM) six months prior to graduating, with the proviso that I passed my final exams! I started in the position only a few days after my final exam and was ready to join the ‘real world’ of fulltime employment. In this position, I was responsible for ass...