Alternative care facilities (ACFs) have been widely proposed in state, local, and national pandemic preparedness plans as a way to address the expected shortage of available medical facilities during an influenza pandemic. These plans describe many types of ACFs, but their function and roles are unclear and need to be carefully considered because of the limited resources available and the reduc...

amitraz is a triazapentadiene, an α2 adrenergic agonist and a member of the amidine chemical family. a limited number of human intoxication cases have been published in the literature. lack of a clear and specific protocol for the therapy of amitraz intoxication may make its successfully managed case reports useful and valuable for other clinical practitioners in poisoning departments. the case...

V posledních letech byl díky zavedení nových léčebných postupů dosažen signifikantní pokrok v intenzivní léčbě mnoha hematoonkologických onemocnění. Se zavedením přichází nové nároky na podpůrnou terapii. tomto článku poskytujeme stručný přehled nejčastějších nároků péči v modelové situaci autologních či alogenních transplantací krvetvorby a vysvětluj...

The continual growth of the World Wide Web presents the (also growing) population of health information seekers with the challenge of finding reliable information that is appropriate to their needs. Metadata about consumer health websites can provide a guide for end users and domain-specific search tools. In this paper we present and demonstrate a method for automatically inferring a non-trivia...

Application-controlled congestion control and feedback serve to support latency-sensitive streaming media applications. Moving parts of the protocol processing into user space is one of the promising techniques for providing applications with the flexibility of network control. This paper presents a user-level implementation of the transport functionality to support real-time streaming media ap...

the research compares 5-12 year old children of addicted fathers with those of non-addicted fathers. this experiment was carried out on one hundred families of the addict, in comparison to another one hundred non-addicted families. these children have not been subjects for social scientists and health experts because of the following facts: 1) they live with their parents, 2) they are not crimi...