OBJECTIVE To test whether adoption of a collaborative consultative service model results in improved patient outcomes. DESIGN Twelve pediatric practices were randomly assigned to receive access to collaborative consultative services or to a control group. SETTING Community-based pediatric offices. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two pediatricians and their 377 patients with attention-deficit/hyperacti...

With the creation of Human Rights Council Universal Period Review, its Working Group established in accordance with Resolution 5/1 18th June, 2007 held fourth session from 2nd to 13th February, 2009 review human rights record countries including Nigeria.2 In preparation for review, Government Federal Republic Nigeria had constituted a broad-based UPR National Consultative Committee tasked respo...

This paper explores the contributions of four eminent political figures namely Edward Bitanywaine Rugumayo, Dani Wadada Nabudere, Omwony Ojok and Yashpal Tandon to post-independence politics Uganda. The quartet belonged anti-Amin groups in exile who participated Moshi conference Tanzania with support President Julius Nyerere. They were dubbed gang by Godfrey Binaisa during his short-lived regim...

National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, MD 20899 In order to evaluate the worldwide consistency of practical implementations of the 1979 redefinition of the candela, the Consultative Committee for Photometry and Radiometry (CCPR) has conducted an international intercomparison of photometric base units. The intercomparison showed 0.8% agreement (one standard deviation) of independent luminous...

Since their discovery in 1993, turbo codes have been found to provide excellent performance with relatively low complexity. Turbo codes have been added to the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) standards for telemetry channel coding, and turbo encoders are being included in spaceflight hardware and software. This article describes the design of the prototype turbo decoder for...

Representatives of international, national and scientific organizations met in Bellagio, Italy, in June 1995 to examine the implications of global trends in tobacco production and consumption. The 22 participants agreed that a growing pandemic of tobacco use poses a major threat to sustainable and equitable development in low-income countries. The international Development Research Centre was i...

This paper describes the process used by Consultative Committee for Mass and Related Quantities - Working Group on Hardness (CCM-WGH) of International Weights Measures (CIPM) to develop international definitions conventional Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers Knoop hardness test methods, use National Metrology Institutes (NMI) that standardize measurement.

Multisectoral actions for health, defined as actions undertaken by non-health sectors to protect the health of the population, are essential in the context of inter-linkages between three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental. These multisectoral actions can address the social and economic factors that influence the health of a population at the local, natio...