BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Acute stroke treatments are underutilized primarily because of delayed hospital arrival. Using a community-based participatory research approach, we explored stroke self-efficacy, knowledge, and perceptions of stroke among a predominately African American population in Flint, Michigan. METHODS In March 2010, a survey was administered to youth and adults after religious ...

The 911 emergency service belongs to one of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors in the United States. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks launched from a mobile phone botnet pose a significant threat to the availability of this vital service. In this paper we show how attackers can exploit the cellular network protocols in order to launch an anonymized DDoS attack on 911. The curren...

I. INTRODUcrION.......................................... 909 II. JUDICIAL RELUcrANCE TO ApPLY BASIC LEGAL CONCEPTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 910 III. THE OIL AND GAS LEASE AND THE LAW OF IMPLIED COVENANTS............................................. 911 A. Professor Merrill's "Oil and Gas Law" Analysis. . . . 911 1. Implying Ob...

We conducted a cross-sectional, random-digit-dial survey to evaluate public responses to a hypothetical question: "If someone you knew was suicidal, what would you do first?" Younger people were more likely to call a suicide hotline, and less likely to go to an emergency room (ER) or call 911; immigrants (in the U.S. < 15 years) were more likely to call 911, and less likely to call a suicide ho...

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................893 I. AVENUES FOR ESTABLISHING A CIVIL GIDEON ................................898 A. Judicial Strategies ............................................................. 898 1. Federal Due Process Claims ...................................899 2. Federal Equal Protection Claims .........................

This study is the development of a usability test plan for implementation of an Enhanced 911 Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system by emergency response dispatch centers. Enhanced 911 system technologies will allow emergency response personnel to locate cellular 911 callers in distress by pinpointing the latitude and longitude of their location, and mapping it through the use of a Geographic Inf...

BACKGROUND Drinking water contamination, with the capability to affect large populations, poses a significant risk to public health. In recent water contamination events, the impact of contamination on public health appeared in data streams monitoring health-seeking behavior. While public health surveillance has traditionally focused on the detection of pathogens, developing methods for detecti...