Activated Protein C Activated Protein C has been shown to decrease mortality in sepsis [1]. It would seem to be most beneficial in a select group of patients (those with mid range APACHE scores). Sepsis is not a common presentation to a deployed field hospital, where the main patient group has suffered from major trauma, and tends to be evacuated within 48 hours. However, longer stays are more ...

Human trafficking, also called modern slavery, happens worldwide--and the United States is no exception. Within our borders, thousands of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, many of them children, are forced or coerced into sex work or various forms of labor every year. Nurses and other health care providers who encounter victims of trafficking often don't realize it, and opportunities to inte...

Language is an important tool of communication, especially in a foreign setting. Foreign language teachers, help their students to access experiences by reason ability communicate with nationals. Teachers’ motivation however influences education and its effectiveness. The aim this study examine the predictive effect teachers' motivations on attitudes towards distance education. For purpose, 356...

This paper presents a stochastic model to forecast the German population and labor supply until 2060. Within a cohort-component approach, our population forecast applies principal components analysis to birth, mortality, emigration, and immigration rates, which allows for the reduction of dimensionality and accounts for correlation of the rates. Labor force participation rates are estimated by ...

INTRODUCTION Under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations (UN) Member States reported progress on the targets toward their general citizenry. This focus repeatedly excluded marginalized ethnic and linguistic minorities, including people of refugee backgrounds and other vulnerable non-nationals that resided within a States' borders. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim t...

Ethnic minority groups are considered vulnerable due to their cultural, linguistic, and religious differences, but some resilient may have the potential work as critical stakeholders in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The special session “Minority communities DRR” at 2022 IDRiM conference focused on roles of ethnic groups, especially mosques Japan that mainly managed by foreign nationals. This t...