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Questionnaires dealing with the practice of clinical chemistry in their laboratories were sent to 172 selected hospitals with a bed capacity of less than 70, all in the United States and all 50 miles or more from any large hospital or medical center. Repliesfrom 84 indicated that in the majority of the laboratories the actual work is done by individuals who have had college training and/or many...

Widespread use of pharmaceuticals has resulted in mixture concentrations ranging from mg/L in effluent to µg/L concentrations in surface water. In a 2008 study, 13 pharmaceuticals, ranging in amounts from 0.0028 to 0.1757 µg/l, were identified in the Tennessee River, USA and its tributaries. In order to address the need for risk assessment of environmentally relevant pharmaceutical mixtures, <e...

In a naturalistic study of teenage drivers (N = 42) hard braking events of ≤-0.45 g were assessed over the first 6 months of licensure. A total of 1,721 hard braking events were recorded. The video footage of a sample (816) of these events was examined to evaluate validity and reasons for hard braking. Of these, 788 (96.6%) were estimated valid, of which 79.1% were due to driver misjudgment, 10...

They just sat there and looked back at me... They had the calm weathered faces of healthy men in hard condition. They had the eyes they always have, cloudy and grey like freezing water. The firm set mouth, the hard little wrinkles at the corners of the eyes, the hard hollow meaningless stare, not quite cruel and a thousand miles from kind. The dull ready-made clothes, worn without style, with a...

countryside, whereas it was merely mentioned occasionally; nor could he tell me the names of the affected villages, though they were only eight miles away. Finding that Kaliaganj was not a suitable place for my purpose, I pushed on to Churli, a large village eight miles away, near which several cases of the disease were known to exist. Crossing the Mahanadi near the police-station, I followed i...

On the morning of July 1st 1916, after five days of intense artillery bombardment, the British Fourth Army under General Sir Henry Rawlinson, with a ration strength of 519,324 men, supported by two divisions of the Third Army, under General Sir Edward Allenby, advanced into what was to be known hereafter as the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within the first 60 minutes of that attack, th...