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APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE This Instruction: Applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Military Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities,...
This Standard provides an overview of policies, processes, and protocols that organizations can adopt to help identify and prevent threatening behavior and violence affecting the workplace, and to better address and resolve threats and violence that have actually occurred. This Standard describes...
Early intervention in psychotic disorders, particularly schizophrenia, has been increasingly recognized as important by clinicians and policymakers alike. The benefits to patients and their carers include timely treatment, minimization of secondary morbidity and prevention of relapse....
This guide attempts to provide information to assist building owners and managers with limited knowledge of stone construction to recognize basic problems with performance of facades, and to keep them in good condition through periodic inspections and maintenance. Increased awareness of the...
This guide attempts to provide information to assist building owners and managers with limited knowledge of stone construction to recognize basic problems with performance of facades, and to keep them in good condition through periodic inspections and maintenance. Increased awareness of the...
4.1 This guide attempts to provide information to assist building owners and managers with limited knowledge of stone construction to recognize basic problems with performance of facades, and to keep them in good condition through periodic inspections and maintenance. Increased awareness of the...
Preface For years the management of early pregnancy complications was very much the poor relation when training in gynaecology. In general the most junior doctor available was delegated to see the patient and perform any surgery, if indicated. Yet they are among the most common conditions...
Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States and continues to increase in prevalence in almost all countries in which it has been studied, including developed and developing countries around the globe. The causes of obesity are complex and multi-factorial. Childhood...
Preface With worldwide prevalence of asthma increasing at an alarming rate over the last 20 years, it is timely to maintain frequent updates on the current concepts of asthma epidemiology, natural history, and management, as well as projecting a view for future management. We have gathered together...
Prevention of complications in vascular and endovascular surgery is an important consideration for all practicing surgeons. The keys to achieving clinical success are based on careful selection of both patient and procedure, along with meticulous operative and endovascular techniques. Management of...
4.1 This guide is not intended to be used by itself, but as a component of Guide F1288. Merely conforming to the guidelines described herein will not ensure that adequate triage is carried out in a multiple casualty incident. 4.2 The purpose of this guide is to establish a methodology for...
This guide is not intended to be used by itself, but as a component of Guide F1288. Merely conforming to the guidelines described herein will not ensure that adequate triage is carried out in a multiple casualty incident. The purpose of this guide is to establish a methodology for performing triage...
INTRODUCTION Research on early brain development has exploded during the two last decades. Today, the architecture of the infant brain is known to be influenced by emotional, biological, and environmental factors that can inhibit or enhance potential in the developing child. External...
Deborah Capaldi, PhD, an acknowledged domestic violence expert and senior scientist at the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, Oregon, is currently the principal investigator of three studies for the National Institutes of Health: (1) the cause and consequences of antisocial behavior; (2)...
Endothelial dysfunction is now regarded as an early marker of vascular disease and therefore an important target for therapeutic intervention and discovery of novel treatments. Ideal for both basic and clinical scientists, whether in industry or academia, and physicians, Vascular...
Preface Chronic exposure to ultraviolet radiation produces the visible signs of photodamage. These signs can be of a cosmetic nature or more significantly may manifest as skin cancer. The three common types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Current...
Work-related disability is an increasingly important issue to organizations, in terms of cost, competitiveness, and social and ethical issues. Changes in the nature of disability arising from the evolution of work calls for a new approach to this understudied topic. Significant developments have...
Preface Prostate cancer is the most enigmatic of the common solid malignancies. Second only to lung cancer as a killer of men beyond middle age, it warrants more attention than it currently receives from governments, researchers and the general public worldwide. One major reason for this continuing...
Preface This textbook, the second edition of our original Textbook of Peripheral Vascular Intervention, is a collaborative effort with Dr. Henry, myself, and Alan Burgess from Informa Healthcare Publishing. We have incorporated contributions from world opinion leaders in the areas of...
Preface The global epidemic of overweight and obesity in adults is now also a major health problem for children and youth (Livingstone, 2001; Kimm et al., 2002; Koletzko et al., 2002; Eriksson et al., 2003b). While childhood obesity has existed since ancient times, there is increasing evidence that...
