Approximately 35,000 students are trained annually in United States Air Force (USAF) altitude chambers. Students who depart the training site via aircraft on the same day as their altitude chamber exposure may place themselves at increased risk for decompression sickness (DCS). Air travel as a passenger in the immediate post-chamber ...

The place of a psychiatric day treatment program within the spectrum of necessary treatment options is noted in the literature review. A established day program is described with some characteristics of 97 youths attending the program over a two year period. The authors highlight those characteristics which correlate with benefits ...

This article reports on the problem of and partial solution to declining enrollments in an associate degree medical radiography program at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. After it was determined that many interested and capable applicants could not attend on a full-time day basis, the full-time day program was ...

Abstract Worksite stress programs have proliferated in recent years. A large proportion of these programs focus on helping individual employees learn about stress and develop better coping skills. Few programs attempt to reduce the stressful aspects of the job or the organizational context. In order to facilitate the development of ...

An outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis sero-group C disease occurred in four eighth grade students and in a younger sibling of another eighth grade student attending an intermediate school (seventh and eighth grades) in Santa Clara County, CA. Four cases had onset within 3 days in January, 1989, with the fifth ...

One morning in June 1988 students at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine presented their projects on the final day of the integrated course in sociology and epidemiology. This article describes the event and considers some explanations of what happened, with reference to the published literature on medical education ...

This descriptive study investigated the impact of special education policy on the school day of three disadvantaged, rural students with severe disabilities. A constant comparative method of single and cross-site data analysis revealed that the product of policy was a day with little or no instruction and limited opportunities for ...

This study of naturally occurring behaviour employed a "beeper technique" to investigate the actions carried out by 152 subjects in eight different groups, viz. adult students, employed students who were also parents, unemployed, art students, doctoral students, alcoholics, retired people and a control group. Actions were sampled for seven subsequent ...

This exploratory study was conducted to determine the effects of an educational program on the number and severity of premenstrual symptoms as well as the number of premenstrual days with symptoms. Participants were a convenience sample of 47 employed women, whose scores on Abraham's Menstrual Symptomatology Questionnaire were in the ...

The Brazilian National Breastfeeding Program launched in 1981, is remarkable for its broad scope, including activities aimed at protecting (employment legislation, control of marketing of substitutes for mother's milk), promoting (use of the media, professional training), and supporting breastfeeding (mothers' groups, information material, and direct counseling). The program was preceded ...

The present study examined the influence of the following: 1) air temperature, 2) day into training, 3) self rating of life stress, 4) rating of relative warmth in cold weather, and 5) expectation for liking cold weather training, on 59 soldiers' self-reports of illness and mood during 3 days of ...

A clinical trial to test the compound glycyrrhizin, the sweet component of licorice, was conducted on 21 dental students. A split-mouth technique of glycyrrhizin application was used. Subjects were instructed to discontinue all oral hygiene procedures, but no dietary modifications were imposed. After 3 days a highly significant reduction in ...

The relationships between frequency of rumination in a boy with profound mental retardation and a variety of environmental, interpersonal, and temporal variables were investigated by collecting and analyzing data during all waking hours over a 4-week period. Low levels of rumination were associated with periods of special education programming (versus ...

To examine the acquisition of voluntary control of a novel muscular activity from the initial stage to the self-control stage, the m. auricularis posterior, which had generally degenerated and had nearly lost its function of drawing an auricle backward in the human body, was selected as a target muscle to ...

We describe a technique of flexible endoscopy of the upper aerodigestive tract which provides excellent visualization for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in ENT practice. With the present day need to reduce costs it is helpful to reduce inpatient workload and perform procedures as day cases where appropriate. The previous criticisms ...

I am now drawing towards the end of my year in Eastbourne as a vocational trainee on the Brighton Scheme. Eastbourne is a busy seaside resort on the south coast. Rather a lot of 'grannies' reside there; but contrary to popular belief I do not spend all day, every day ...

At one institute 48 percent of physician candidates doing class-work are over 40. This percentage has increased over the past decade, perhaps reflecting new economic constraints and the increased proportion of women candidates. A review of the first training analysis, Freud's, and conversations with some present day candidates indicate that ...

There are definable stages in hospice program development which require significantly different administrative competencies. In many instances, as programs move from one stage to another, there may need to be significant changes in administrative functions, delegation, and perhaps even changes in personnel. This article reports a study of hospice administrators ...

The day-to-day management of the hospital forms business can be time-consuming, frustrating, and expensive. In many cases, the official inventory represents only a fraction of the total number of forms used throughout an institution. Since the responsibility for inventory and quality control becomes diffuse, forms users experience frequent stockouts and ...

It is important for every materiel management employee to be trained to know the purpose, benefits and operations of the exchange cart system. This information can be shared in a simple, short inservice or during department orientation. It is vital to the success of the system. To summarize one expert's ...

Two fifth-grade students' high levels of off-task and disruptive behavior decreased rapidly during an intervention in which they were appointed peer monitors or point earners. The children worked in dyads in which one child served as a peer monitor and the other child earned points from his or her monitor ...

A simple step-by-step plan for organizing and developing a computerized data base in a psychoeducational day-treatment program for children and adolescents is described. The plan is purposefully limited and simple in conception so that it can be replicated in freestanding and/or smaller programs, those who might not have the resources ...

An innovative day-treatment program designed to reduce the likelihood that severely disturbed, older adolescents will become chronically ill young adults is described and clinical vignettes are presented which illustrate the program's effectiveness in facilitating educational achievement and enhanced social functioning among patients with significant histories of hospitalization and substance abuse.

Goldfish were trained for 4 h to swim with an attached polystyrene foam float and tested for retention 3 days later. Intracerebroventricular injection of anti-ependymin antisera was shown to prevent long-term memory formation of this vestibulomotor learning task, as reported previously. In further experiments, fish were killed 4-14 h after ...

This notice announces a Ruling concerning the disposition of provider claims pending in court or that could be filed within the jurisdictions of the courts of appeals for the Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits with respect to the treatment of labor/delivery room days in the apportionment of ...

The effects of program structure on patient attendance rates within a day-hospital program were studied. It has been recognized that regular attendance at partial-hospitalization programs is necessary to facilitate improvement in patient skill deficits. In this study, three different program structures were offered in a 40-person day program. Significant differences ...

Inadequate selection of patients is one factor in the underutilization of day-treatment programs. The Day Treatment Appropriateness Scale (DTAS; Lefkovitz, P. M., Int. J. Part. Hosp. 1:45-47, 1982) is one of only two reported instruments designed to assist in patient selection; it has been shown to predict validly successful completion ...

A prime objective in teaching psychotherapy to medical students is to convey a practical understanding of what happens and a sense of the pleasure and responsibility of working with another person to improve the quality of their relationships. In Nottingham an experiential day was developed during the psychiatry clerkship; the ...

Policy makers in all countries are searching for cost-effective, quality health care. In the realm of surgical care, one response to modern cost and quality pressures is same-day surgery. This article discusses three aspects of same-day surgery programs: key management issues; analysis of competitiveness; and, the growth potential of same-day ...

We describe an outbreak of human cryptosporidiosis in 5 veterinary students in contact with experimentally infected calves. All persons experienced symptoms of gastroenteritis, with the main complaint of diarrhoea lasting for 1-13 days. The persons recovered spontaneously; one was hospitalized for 10 days. The diagnosis was based on the demonstration ...

The La Posada program, a short-term alternative to hospitalization for acutely disturbed chronic patients, combines crisis intervention techniques with techniques developed in halfway houses to enhance independent functioning and counteract regressive, dependent behavior. Highly structured days involving a variety of approaches including group and individual therapy, therapeutic activities, expectations of ...

An outbreak of mumps in a middle school (grades 6 to 8) in Ohio during 1981 was investigated to describe the clinical findings, health impact, and costs. Individuals with clinical mumps in the middle school and in family members were questioned concerning symptoms, complications, hospitalizations, school days absent, and parental ...

Perinatal Coaching is a training/educational program introduced to new parents in the first days following the birth of their baby. This program provides support while teaching new parents skills to communicate and interact with their newborn following birth. The article gives an overview of the content of the Perinatal Coaching ...

Three controlled feeding programs initiated after peak egg production and a full feeding program were evaluated for their effects on production and income performance of White Leghorn layers. Program 1 consisted of full feeding from 20 to 64 weeks of age. Controlled feeding programs were initiated at 36 weeks and ...

Stevens and Coupe demonstrated that people tend to regularize their cognitive maps by distorting the position of relatively small features (e.g., cities) to make them conform with the position of larger features (e.g., state boundaries). The present studies replicated those of Stevens and Coupe by asking college students to study ...

Therapeutic methods that use facilitation and inhibition to alter dysfunctional patterns of movement were implemented in children with multiple handicaps within educational settings. Desired movement patterns such as reach and manipulation skills were performed by students throughout the classroom day and across a variety of contextual uses. Data collected on ...

Emotionally disturbed children participated in a cooperatively funded day-treatment program. The philosophy of the program, designed to facilitate understanding and cooperation among the three funding agencies, the parents, and interdisciplinary team members, was a variant of social learning theory. In this article the program is described, as well as the ...

In order to assess the effect of endurance training on adipose-tissue morphology and lipolysis, 22 adult subjects (11 men and 11 women) took part in a 20-week ergocycle training program, four to five days a week, 40 minutes a day, at 80% of their maximal heart rate. Before and after ...

A simple microcomputer program is described which is designed to calculate the time that can be spent in the sun without the risk of sunburn following the input of the seven variables listed below: Time of year (month); Weather; Subject's complexion; Subject's activity outdoors; Whether or not a sunscreen is ...

Two monkeys learned to make saccadic eye movements from a central fixation point to a peripheral target, when there was a temporal gap between fixation point offset and target onset. Under these conditions the animals made saccades after extremely short reaction times (less than 100 ms), so called express-saccades. With ...

This study was designed to increase the amount of time severely handicapped students living in a residential facility engaged in age-appropriate and functional activities. After a brief in-service training, a program involving instructions to supervisors and staff feedback was implemented in a multiple-baseline design across settings. Results showed that after ...

The relationship between therapists' geographic location and three program planning variables in continuing education was studied using the descriptive survey method. The findings suggested that learning needs were high in evaluation related competencies and that family responsibility and lack of appropriate programs were major barriers to participation. The overwhelming preference ...

The relative benefits of 4- and 8-week rehabilitation programs were compared in inpatients with myocardial infarction. In the 8-week program, complete bed rest was instituted for the initial 3 days, followed by walking around the bed from the 14th day; exercise was gradually increased to target levels such as walking ...

This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an assessment procedure for use in a psychiatric day therapy setting. The assessment procedure, which incorporates a behavioural problem-oriented approach, serves as a basis for individual program planning with day patients, and provides data for program evaluation purposes. Evaluation of the ...

The effects of cooperative and individualistic learning experiences were compared on interactions and relationships between severely adaptive handicapped (not adapting to regular classroom demands) and nonhandicapped seventh-grade students in science classes. We investigated the predictions that (a) requiring cooperation between the two groups of students would result in increased rejection ...

Bitemporal injections of puromycin that primarily affect the hippocampal-entorhinal areas consistently cause amnesia of maze-learning in mice for 3 days after training but become consistently ineffective if given 6 or more days after training. At these later times, additional puromycin injection sites covering widespread areas of the forebrain are necessary ...

This article presents normative data on the day-to-day operation of partial hospitalization programs affiliated with mental health centers in the State of Indiana. This network of programs was surveyed with regard to (1) the community settings and locations of their facilities as well as their accessibility to patients, (2) the ...

The success of the administrators in the future depends on their ability to motivate people to do better with less. They will be required to promote a good work environment in the midst of cutbacks, layoffs, and continued threats of layoffs. To reach their goals, they will work with staff ...

We have suggested that improving the productivity of an individual or of one group of workers is not the same thing as improving the productivity of the organization overall. Further, because work units in hospitals are interdependent, attempts to improve productivity ultimately involve a reexamination of the organization's values and ...

Now that its legislative mandate has been expanded to include services to autistic adolescents and adults, North Carolina's statewide program (TEACCH) has been developing the materials and programs necessary to serve these older clients in community-based settings. The development of diagnostic, assessment, and curriculum materials along with a full range ...