Thirty individuals with subjective tinnitus aurium of a variety of types and severity were treated with a matching-to-sample feedback procedure. Following initial evaluation measures, the participants' experienced tinnitus sounds were reproduced audiometrically on all characteristics and were presented to them in the noninvolved ear or in both ears when the ...

New York and Louisiana, two states having night driving curfews, were included in a questionnaire survey of high school students conducted in 1983. Most students in these states knew about their curfew law. In both states the majority of licensed drivers said they had violated the curfew, but the majority ...

Modelling the operation of outpatient departments, with the aim of devising an appointment system that would reduce patient waiting time, was an early application area for O.R. Yet outpatients still spend an excessive amount of time waiting. This paper reports an investigation into the operation of outpatient departments. The attempt ...

The final results of a three-year campaign against yaws in the Republic of Ghana, which was introduced in an attempt to reduce an unusually high prevalence, are summarized. The campaign started in January 1981 and officially ended in December 1983. Serious economic and technical constraints slowed the progress of work ...

To reduce repetitive endodontic errors by senior dental students, a formal review program was established. It consisted of a slide-tape and a written, latent-image simulation of an endodontic case requiring diagnostic and treatment decisions. Before undertaking any endodontic cases in the senior year, each student had to complete the program ...

Sensory awareness training procedures were used to reduce the self-stimulatory behavior of a profoundly retarded female. Self-stimulatory behaviors were directly observed and recorded using a 15-second momentary time sample procedure for 10-minute recording periods. An alternating treatment design was used to compare the effects of treatment and nontreatment. Tactile, olfactory, ...

The effect of anxiety-reducing hypnotic training on learning and reading-comprehension tasks was examined. Fifteen college students who reported having test-taking anxiety were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control group. The experimental group received hypnotic training to reduce anxiety prior to taking a learning and reading-comprehension test. No significant ...

We performed 20 hydrocele repairs and 18 spermatocelectomies using Lord's techniques on outpatients under local anesthesia. The only complication was delayed wound healing early in the series when tight pressure dressings were used. We now use only a simple dressing and a scrotal support. This method for these operations reduces ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) today issues a final rulemaking amending existing regulations for the administration of the grant programs providing schools, hospitals, units of local government, and public care institutions with financial assistance for the purpose of reducing energy consumption. The revisions are made as a result of experience ...

A community educational program and the introduction of a colposcope in Decatur, Alabama, led to a dramatic decrease in the relative percent of patients evaluated by conization after a positive Pap smear, and a corresponding increase in the relative percent of colposcopic evaluations. The percent of negative or dysplastic tissue ...

Prospective reimbursement (PR) programs attempt to restrain increases in hospital expenditures by establishing, in advance of a hospital's fiscal year, limits on the reimbursement the hospital will receive for the services it provides to patients. We used data complied from a sample of approximately 2700 community hospitals in the U.S. ...

A geothermal resource that consists of hot water at moderate temperatures (below 125 degrees C) underlies many areas in the central and eastern United States. Programs funded by the Department of Energy have revealed that this resource is definable and economically competitive with conventional fuels for use in direct heat ...

Eighteen dentists working in the same School Dental Service participated in a calibration trial with the purpose of reducing interexaminer disagreement on radiographic diagnosis of approximal caries. The calibration program was in two stages: firstly, discussion in small groups and, secondly, the use of a reference standard. The effect of ...

A program for elementary school-aged youth, designed for and implemented by a retail business, was evaluated. The program included visual instructions to youth, tokens (exchangeable for special prizes) for appropriate verbal behavior, visual feedback to youth, and rewards for reducing merchandise loss, all continued to a criterion level. A 54% ...

The development of Inspection and Maintenance Programs to control automobile emissions are one component of a comprehensive strategy to reduce automobile related air pollutants such as CO, NOX, and HC. Since the efficiency at which most motored vehicles are designed to limit pollutant emissions deteriorate with prolonged driving, an Inspection ...

A self-help education-exercise program for asthmatic children and their parents was evaluated in Denver, Colorado. The objective of the program was to instill better self-care practices in the child which are expected to reduce utilization and cost of medical services and reduce the amount of interference in the child's normal ...

The objective of cost management in the animal house is to make efficient use of resources and to regulate the activity of the user. Regular charging of users keeps them aware of their responsibility both ethically and financially. Forward budgetary control is encouraged and regulation of the work load achieved ...

Economic, legal, and political/moral factors affecting the state of children's programming on television are reviewed, and their effects on the effort to encourage "pro-social" programming are considered. It is suggested that the leadership of child-care professionals is essential in the battle to reduce gratuitous violence, limit questionable advertising, and increase ...

This note discusses the assumption researchers make when movement attributes are precued in a choice reaction time (RT) paradigm-i.e., that the precue only reduces the number of response alternatives, so that changes in RT reflect the programming time for the unprecued attributes. However, it is argued that since the precue ...

Accidental exposure to rabies occurred in more than 200 veterinary students at Texas A&M University from 1970 to 1977. Few of the animals to which the students were exposed had typical signs of rabies prior to the exposures. An accelerated preexposure rabies prophylaxis program coupled with retention of suspect tissues ...

Since the rediscovery of willow bark extract (salicin) in 1763, there has been a continuing effort to improve efficacy and reduce the side effects of antiinflammatory agents through chemical modification and innovation. The second-generation NSAIA's, phenylbutazone and indomethacin, provided clear support for the idea that these objectives were obtainable. The ...

Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline and withdrawal design permitted both within- and between-unit comparisons. Payments produced immediate and substantial reductions in consumption in all units, even when the ...

The study sought to motivate college students to reduce the number of miles they drove each day and thus save gasoline. Students in two psychology classes were divided by class into two groups. The experimental group was offered various combinations of prizes such as cash, a tour of a mental-health ...

A body of research data is reviewed pointing to considerable intellectual lag and nonstandard linguistic abilities among the disadvantaged. While "difference" and "deficit" theorists interpret these findings differently, many observers agree that early educational intervention may be a useful approach to such problems. A series of early intervention programs is ...

In three studies, reinforcing low rates of responding reduced inappropriate behaviors. In the first study, the talking-out behavior of one TMR student was reduced when the teacher allowed 5 min of free time for a talk-out rate less than 0.06 per minute. In a second study, the talking-out behavior of ...

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Georgia, 2002.

Perineal wounds are common and occur spontaneously during labour. An episiotomy is sometimes performed in an attempt to reduce perineal trauma, although there is limited evidence about its success. This article discusses the debate surrounding perineal repair and provides information on the indications for episiotomy and the classification of tears.

Clinical experience is identified in this comparative study as the most influential factor in student transfer between the Project 2000 specialist branches. Expecting prospective students to have exposure to branch-specific client groups prior to starting their pre-registration education and improving flexibility of transfer between the branches could help to reduce ...

Those charged with safeguarding the United States have sought to minimize the danger of internal subversion through the screening of government employees and persons having access to classified information. This program is necessary, but it poses a serious dilemma: the more completely we succeed in reducing the danger that information ...