Intensive Use of Stimulants at Start Often Beneficial in ADHD

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
DAMIAN MCNAMARA
Keyword(s):  
2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.


Author(s):  
Qurrotu Aini

Pulmonary tuberculosis is still a serious health problem that needs to be equipped with appropriate countermeasures and accurate. The increase in cases and deaths caused by pulmonary tuberculosis, among others, because it is not threated any of them do not understand have been infected with the TB bacillus so that the prevalence of tuberculosis is still quite high. Therefore, the necessary handling seriously through health education role that communication education with intensive use of media that will reduce the prevalence or at least remain. In general. The purpose of the study to evaluate the effectivesness oh the use of media in reducing the prevalence of tuberculosis. The study “evaluation of Effectiveness of Media in Reducing Prevalence Of Tuberculosis in The Central Eradication and Prevention of Lung Disease Pamekasan “ use purposive sampling with the snowball method. Sample research is pulmonary tuberculosis  patients treated in BP4 much as 3 respondents. The results showed three informants as respondents are all in the first 2 months visiting tuberculosis drug taking as much as 8 times visit support the availability of infrastructure, knowledge of personel. Strategy, advocacy, resoueces and funding are two inhibiting factors lack of education and knowledge of the patients, the lack of commitment oh health workers all of the prevalence of tuberculosis as well as visual media is the most effective in reducing the prevalence of tuberculosis. Sugestions for researchers to address the increasing prevalence of lung integration across every sector and cross-sectoral programs to develop internal networks and external networks.


1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Izu Nweke

Cassava makes an important contribution to improving food security and rural incomes in sub-Saharan Africa, as it is tolerant of drought and poor soil and its cultivation does not require much labour. However, the fresh roots are bulky and perishable and need to be processed before they can be marketed; processing also removes the cyanogens which make many varieties poisonous in their raw form. Cassava roots are turned into granules, flours, pastes and chips, with a wide range of flavours and appearances for different areas and markets. Many different processing techniques are used, some of which make intensive use of fuelwood while others require a plentiful water supply. These requirements, as well as the need for a good transport and marketing infrastructure, limit the expansion of cassava production in sub-Saharan Africa, but technical solutions are being found.


Radiology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 275 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimon Bekelis ◽  
Elliott S. Fisher ◽  
Nicos Labropoulos ◽  
Weiping Zhou ◽  
Jonathan Skinner

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 110-114
Author(s):  
Andrei Chiriloaie-Palade ◽  
Mădălina Radulea ◽  
Gheorghe Lămureanu ◽  
Ștefan Ion Mocanu ◽  
Maria Iamandei

"The cosmopolitan aphid species Myzus persicae is a key pest of peach orchards in south and southeastern Romania. The phenomenon of resistance induced by the intensive use of insecticides is a matter of concern for farmers and protectionists, making necessary integrated measure for the control of this pest. Conservation of natural enemy’s populations is an essential component of any management system proposed for pest aphids. The aim of the study was to determine the structure of predatory insects associated with Myzus persicae populations in peach orchards. The research was carried out in three orchards from two localities from Constanta County, in peach plantations with Springcrest variety aged 7, 11 and 12 years. As a result of this study, there were determined a total of 15 predatory insect species belonging to eight systematic families: Coccinellidae, Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, Syrphydae, Cecidomyiidae, Panorpidae, Nabidae and Forficulidae, which naturally contribute to the reduction of the green peach aphid populations. "


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.O. Miantsia ◽  
F. Meutchieye ◽  
S. Niassy

The current work is aimed at generating information on giant crickets and the impact of commonly used pesticides on the natural population of these crickets. Data was collected based on interviews and complemented with field observations. Out of 319 respondents surveyed, 290 were aware of the use of the giant cricket as a food source, and 161 were active consumers. Regarding the availability of the giant cricket, respondents reported that the crickets’ populations were diminishing because of farming practices. About 219 persons reported that commonly used herbicides harm giant crickets at different stages. This could be attributed to the scarcity of this species, as mentioned by 233 respondents. The results showed that 130 respondents were engaged in gathering giant crickets for consumption. This insect gathering is related to soil tilling. Chi-square test showed a significant dependence relationship between herbicides use and cricket scarcity. Although less than a majority (129) of respondents are making regular use of persistent pesticides (herbicides), it has been observed that intensive use of pesticides could become a popular practice in smallholder farming categories. This paper thus suggests the need for training and surveillance concerning the trade of pesticides in the region and proposes further investigations into pesticides residues or traces in collected giant crickets consumed in the study site and in all areas with similar conditions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliezer Yariv ◽  
Efrat Kass

In this research, we examine strategies school principals have used to assist struggling teachers. In an open-ended questionnaire designed for this study, we asked 219 school principals to describe a successful intervention they held. The results show that principals prefer supportive assistance to organizational changes (such as moving the teacher to another class). They rarely used confrontational approaches. A content analysis of the strategies that enabled successful intervention identified four conditions: (a) principals’ willingness to intervene; (b) intensive use of measures and resources; (c) the teacher’s willingness to make changes; and (d) the need for flexibility in managing the intervention. The findings indicate the need to train principals to assist struggling teachers more effectively and to encourage them to become more assertive. This requires a professional development program for teachers and principals, guidance in classroom management, as well as organizational, financial, and human support.


2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 88-95
Author(s):  
M. A. Leonova ◽  
I. S. Onishchenko ◽  
N. Yu. Balybina ◽  
I. N. Pen’kova

The results of studying the immune response with persistence of the microorganism of the genus Mycoplasma in the body of cows are presented. The study (2019) was conducted in dairy farms in five districts of Novosibirsk region. Identification of individual specific antibodies of class G to microorganisms of the genus Mycoplasma was carried out in 186 samples of blood serum of cattle. The study was carried out by enzyme immunoassay with the MycoplasmaIgG antibodies ELISA VET kit. In the majority of the studied farms, a prolonged persistence of the microorganism of the genus Mycoplasma was noted. It was found that mycoplasma, having weak immunogenicity, mainly causes a chronic course of the disease. In an enzyme-linked immunoassay, this phenomenon was recorded in dubious reactions in 60.8% of animals. In some farms during the study, a period of reactivation of the disease was noted, which appeared in the transition of the disease from the carrier phase to the active form with clinical manifestations. In the enzyme immunoassay, 7.5% of the animals reacted positively. It was noted that in farms with positively reacting animals, the probability of isolation and spread of the pathogen from sick animals is high. No reaction to the presence of class G antibodies to microorganisms of the genus Mycoplasma was detected in 31.7% of the animals studied. In most farms, the growth dynamics of animals with dubious response was noted to depend on their physiological period. The connection of the duration of cow lactation with the dubious antibody response in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was established. The possibility of connecting this phenomenon with highly intensive use of productive animals, which leads to an increase in stress levels and a decrease in homeostasis and immunity, is shown.


Author(s):  
Yunhong Gong ◽  
Yanan Sun ◽  
Dezhong Peng ◽  
Peng Chen ◽  
Zhongtai Yan ◽  
...  

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global alarm. With the advances in artificial intelligence, the COVID-19 testing capabilities have been greatly expanded, and hospital resources are significantly alleviated. Over the past years, computer vision researches have focused on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which can significantly improve image analysis ability. However, CNN architectures are usually manually designed with rich expertise that is scarce in practice. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can automatically search for the proper CNN architectures and voluntarily optimize the related hyperparameters. The networks searched by EAs can be used to effectively process COVID-19 computed tomography images without expert knowledge and manual setup. In this paper, we propose a novel EA-based algorithm with a dynamic searching space to design the optimal CNN architectures for diagnosing COVID-19 before the pathogenic test. The experiments are performed on the COVID-CT data set against a series of state-of-the-art CNN models. The experiments demonstrate that the architecture searched by the proposed EA-based algorithm achieves the best performance yet without any preprocessing operations. Furthermore, we found through experimentation that the intensive use of batch normalization may deteriorate the performance. This contrasts with the common sense approach of manually designing CNN architectures and will help the related experts in handcrafting CNN models to achieve the best performance without any preprocessing operations


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