A study was conducted to deal with different issues related to livelihood and socioeconomic condition of the fishers living in the coastal zone of Bangladesh. Data was collected from different secondary sources and simple survey to serve the objectives of the study. The coastal fishers folk population of Bangladesh is ...

A qualitative case study examined beliefs and practices of itinerant teachers of deaf and hard of hearing students concerning literacy development, the match between these teachers' beliefs and practices, and the impact of itinerant settings. Five itinerant teachers and 15 students participated. Hearing losses were mild to profound. The research ...

CPH 82 [Reumacon] is a purified semi-synthetic lignan glycoside derivative of the medicinal herb Podophyllum emodi which inhibits microtubules. It has been jointly developed by the Swedish company Conpharm and the Swiss company Analytecon SA. It has potential for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The Swedish company Meda is licencing ...

Different approaches to practice development are associated with different assumptions, and these need to be made explicit if practice development is to be transparent, rigorous and systematic in its intentions and approaches. A practice development methodology underpinned by critical social science is advocated because it focuses on achieving sustainable change ...

It's natural to promote your best and brightest, especially when you think they may leave for greener pastures if you don't continually offer them new challenges and rewards. But promoting smart, ambitious young managers too quickly often robs them of the chance to develop the emotional competencies that come with ...

The Medicines Company (under license from AstraZeneca) is developing clevidipine, a short-acting dihydropyridine calcium antagonist, for the potential treatment of peri-operative hypertension. By 1997, the compound was undergoing phase II clinical evaluation by the original developer, AstraZeneca. By March 2002, The Medicines Company was conducting phase III clinical trials.

Dentistry is all about relationship-building. You can improve your productivity, rate of case acceptance--and your quality of life--by: cultivating relationships with your patients. helping your staff develop trusting relationships with patients. developing trust between your practice and referring practices. Remember--practice makes perfect!

A major website has been developed containing almost all of the information doctors require to manage any older medical patient. It caters for geriatricians, for those with an uneven, basic knowledge of geriatric medicine, and for differing international requirements. The validity and reliability of the site were assured by a ...

Managing people is a continuing leadership challenge. The foundation discipline for managing people relates to human resource management and faculty development in academic settings. In human resource management, administrators are challenged to balance the needs of individuals and the expectations of the organization for the mutual benefit of both. A ...

As civilizations developed and human and domesticated animal population density increased, protozoan, bacterial and viral disease-causing organisms had an expanded field for their propagation. This increase was particularly rapid and occurred at a very early date in Mesopotamia. Many closely related civilizations developed in Mesopotamia, including the Sumerians. Even in ...

Competency-based approaches to education and professional development have increased the need for nursing practitioners to submit their clinical practice to scrutiny through the development and assessment of portfolios. This paper examines the role of portfolio development as a method of assessing competency in and for practice and provides a brief ...

Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNSC) is the world leader in the discovery and use of gene variation for the development of personalized medicines. In addition, the company has established partnerships with some of the world's top biopharmaceutical companies. The company has initiated the development of its own pipeline of products ...

Over the past 20 years at the authors' institution, the management of empyema has evolved. The authors recently have developed a critical pathway in an effort to facilitate diagnosis, guide therapy, and reduce cost. Currently, the average length of stay using this pathway is 4 to 5 days with decreased ...

Integrated catchment management represents an approach to managing the resources of a catchment by integrating environmental, economic, and social issues. It is aimed at deriving sustainable benefits for future generations, while protecting natural resources, particularly water, and minimizing possible adverse social, economic, and environmental consequences. Indicators of sustainable development, which ...

Events during 2001 raised greater awareness in the global community to the problems facing less developed countries in gaining access to essential medicines because they are not affordable. The difference between the price of medicines and income in many developing countries is significant and consequently, price stands as an important ...

This paper evaluates a management development program, which was piloted at Albury Base Hospital during 2001 for nurse managers. The program uses quantitative assessments of participants using a lifestyle inventory tool and enables managers to identify opportunities and strategies to assist them to become more effective managers. The program also ...

In recent years, forests have been increasingly recognized as rich reservoirs for many valuable biological resources. As a result of the devastation caused by drought, clearing land for agriculture, and overexploitation of timber, there has been a growing interest in non-timber forest products (NTFPs). The Senegal Forestry Action Plan, designed ...

The relationship between military and civilian humanitarian organisations has developed in an increasingly integrative way. Military initiatives to institutionalise the relationship, since the interventions in Somalia and the Balkans, entail a dilution of humanitarian independence as was manifested in practice in Kosovo. Further, the state-centric foundations of military intervention run ...

Fenhexamid, a recently developed botryticide, is shown here to inhibit sterol biosynthesis. When the fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana was grown in the presence of fenhexamid, the ergosterol content was reduced, and three 3-keto compounds, 4 alpha-methylfecosterone, fecosterone and episterone, accumulated, suggesting an inhibition of the 3-keto reductase involved in C-4 demethylation. ...

Pharmacia (formerly Monsanto) is developing parecoxib, an injectable COX-2 inhibitor, for the management of post-surgical acute pain [287279], [313957]. By January 1999, the compound was in phase III trials for this indication [312280]. In October 2000, Pharmacia submitted an NDA for parecoxib sodium for the management of acute pain to ...

OVERVIEW: Adolescent medicine faculty physicians were surveyed regarding training, career, and perceived needs. Most stated that training in teaching, research, and administration would be useful. Time spent in adolescent medicine activities was not associated with satisfaction, whereas having a mentor was. These issues should be considered when addressing faculty development ...

Medicine has to balance between the advantages and costs of new technology. As the significance of technical aids has increased, medicine has become more tightly bound to technology. Telemedicine is one of the fastest developing fields, as its development is connected to the development of telecommunication and information technology. Technology ...

A major challenge for agriculture is management of insect resistance to toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) produced by transgenic crops. Here we describe how a large-scale program is being developed in Arizona for management of resistance to Bt cotton in the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), and other ...

A veterinarian desiring to increase his or her proficiency in canine reproduction needs to become competent in a variety of reproductive procedures. This article describes commonly performed procedures and gives an overview of how to develop a practice in canine reproduction. Once a veterinarian develops expertise in this area, the ...

Franz Kuhn (1866-1929), a German surgeon, made a significant practical and scientific contribution towards the development of modern anaesthesia and emergency medicine. He developed modern, scientifically based concepts in close correlation to practical inventions for every day use. All of his studies and developments were patient orientated and led to ...

Coagulation disorder are common in India. In the absence of any epidemiological studies it is expected that there are at least 50,000 severe hemophilics in our country. The factor concentrates are not easily available in developing countries which poses a major problem while managing severe bleeding episodes in these patients. ...

Therapy with medicinal leeches (Hirudo medicinalis) is now frequently applied in plastic surgery and in the management of chronic venous insufficiency. We observed a patient in whom firm, brown-red, pea-sized papules developed at each site where leeches had been applied on the lower legs. Histology, immunohistology, and molecular analysis of ...

/ This study was undertaken to (1) determine the suitability of ecosystems within Mount Spil National Park (Turkey) to human activities by a systematic zoning procedure, and (2) provide the basis for developing sound management strategies based on natural-cultural resource attributes of the park. After assessing natural-cultural resources and human ...

Neurolaryngology is the study and management of disorders that impair neural control of the larynx and pharynx in breathing, swallowing, and speech. Advances in functional endoscopy and fluoroscopy and increased understanding of neurophysiology have greatly facilitated the development of this discipline. The empiric observations of effective therapies have been equally ...

World-class supply management organizations like Honda of America, John Deere, Chrysler, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola all understand the power of continuous improvement in the supply base. The best supplier management and development programs help suppliers--on a long-term basis--develop their own strength and expertise in suggestion systems, new product development, and ...

AIM: This article identifies ways in which hospital sisters and charge nurses (ward managers) are developed as managers in one London teaching hospital. CONTEXT: Ward managers are practising in the context of increasing management responsibility in which decision-making is being driven to occur as close to the patient as possible. ...

There has been substantial development of techniques for performing arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder over the past 20 years. A multitude of arthroscopic techniques have been developed in an attempt to manage the unstable glenohumeral joint while decreasing surgical morbidity. The results obtained with arthroscopic stabilization have been widely variable. ...

Although certain principles for management of facial fractures have not changed, new avenues reach this goal with greater precision and less morbidity. By reviewing these recent developments one can see the enormous potential for future developments in technology, techniques, and biomaterials. Development of tertiary care centers for the multiple trauma ...

OBJECTIVE: To develop an abacavir hypersensitivity reaction management protocol for the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. DATA SYNTHESIS: Conference abstracts, published literature, and manufacturer-provided materials were reviewed to define the syndrome and manifestations and to recommend steps to take when a patient develops abacavir-related reactions. RESULTS: Initial education, formalized ...

This presentation features linguistic and terminology management issues related to the development of the Spanish version of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED). It aims at describing the aspects of translating and the difficulties encountered in delivering a natural and consistent medical nomenclature. Bunge's three-layered model is referenced to analyze ...

Regulatory bodies require evidence that software controlling potentially hazardous devices is developed to good manufacturing practices. Effective techniques used in other industries assume long timescales and high staffing levels and can be unsuitable for use without adaptation in developing electronic healthcare devices. This paper discusses a set of techniques used ...

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW: Computers are becoming an integral part of the practice of dentistry. Smaller, smarter and more ergonomic computing devices will support an increasing proportion of dental practice activities. Technology will make practice management more efficient, mainly by reducing transactional overhead. Educational software and intelligent assistants will increasingly support ...

This report is the second attempt to try to illustrate how new mathematical tools can be used to better understand the issue of biodiversity. The first report (IIASA IR 98-106; Wilk et al., 1998) outlined the analytical framework in the case study of the biodiversity of the Siberian forests. This ...

Many developments are occurring with respect to practice management agreements in Florida. These include the District Court of Appeal affirmance of the Bakarania decision, a bankruptcy court decision to the effect that the PhyMatrix Agreement evaluated in Bakarania constitutes illegal fee-splitting. There was also a new Board of Medicine decision ...

In 1998, about 30 new medicinal chemical entities in the field of antibacterials and antifungals were presented during the 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, held in San Diego. Among these compounds, only a few of them seem to be candidates for preclinical and clinical development: GAR 936, ...

Mesh erosion is an unfortunate complication of abdominal sacral colpopexy. A sinus tract from the vagina to the sacrum developed in a patient after partial removal of a GORE-TEX Soft Tissue Patch because of mesh erosion. Successful management eventually required complete removal of all GORE-TEX material and resection of the ...

This paper describes the development of a conceptual framework for practice development. Drawing on the authors' combined experiences of facilitating developments in practice, a conceptual framework is proposed. It is argued that much practice development in health care today lacks a systematic approach and is often undertaken by individual practitioners ...

Squint is unfortunately a neglected subject in our country. It is considered only a cosmetic problem without realising that any manifest squint is a one eyed blindness which results in lack of binocular vision. Consequently there is no stereopsis. The management should be undertaken at the earliest possible age when ...

A revolution in chemical pathology occurred about 40 years ago with the discovery of a patient with mitochondrial dysfunction. The field of mitochondrial medicine has experienced explosive growth during the last decade. More than 50 mtDNA mutations and several nuclear gene mutations have been identified in affected patients. The recent ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate relationships between upper body power (UBP) and cross-country ski skating race velocity (R) in a cross sectional representation of cross-country skiers. Additionally, cross-country skiers' UBP was compared to UBP of distance runners. Participants (n = 195) were tested on a Street Arm ...

/ Determining what indicators can be used to measure forest health has been much discussed but largely unresolved in the forestry literature. A model is presented in which the condition of a stand is quantified relative to a suitable target condition based on a preselected set of stands that, in ...

Measurements of urban air quality at monitoring stations in developed countries have frequently involved the criteria gaseous pollutants, particulates, hazardous air pollutants, perceived air quality and relevant meteorological conditions. Large numbers of indicators have therefore been established to quantify emissions, concentrations and environmental and human health impacts of each of ...

Since ancient times, Germanic tribes from the Palatine valley relied on faith healers, brauchers, when health problems developed. Several hundred years ago, brauchers immigrated to the New World with various Germanic religious sects. Cooperative, instructional meetings, or pow wows, between Native American medicine men and newly immigrated brauchers allowed the ...

: This paper first addresses the urgency of developing urban GIS to tackle the problems caused by urbanisation; then review the current state-of-the-art of the development of urban GIS across the country. INTRODUCTION Since the first report of a geographical information system (Tomlinson, 1967), which marks the commencement of GIS ...

We report 3 patients with isolated cleft or coloboma of the nose--an extremely rare occurrence. This entity belongs to no. 1 of Tessier's classification of craniofacial clefts. Excessive separation of the medial and lateral nasal processes of the frontonasal process may be the genesis of this condition. Management should address ...