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Strang, John, VX39887
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/419663Surname: STRANG. Given Name(s) or Initials: JOHN. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: VX39887. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 24394.244242
Item: [2016.0049.51924] "Strang, John, VX39887
Grafting & Budding Fruit Trees
No full textJohn Strang demonstrates grafting and budding fruit trees at the Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability (RCARS). Strang also covers topics on fruit tree varieties for Kentucky
Psychosocial interventions and opioid detoxification for drug misuse: summary of NICE guidance
No full textDrug misuse is an increasing problem that not only impairs the physical and mental health of people who misuse drugs but also negatively affects their families and wider society (for example, in its association with crime). Recently expanded drug services in the United Kingdom involve general practitioners to a considerable degree, who care for at least a third of opioid misusers in treatment. Many clinicians remain pessimistic, however, about the possible benefits of any treatment and how to engage drug users in treatment.1 This article summarises two new NICE guidelines that identify the most effective, safe detoxification regimens for primary and secondary care, the most cost effective psychosocial interventions, and effective ways to promote patient engagement
Measurement and Analysis of the Direct Train to Train Propagation Channel in the 70 cm UHF-Band
No full textIn this paper we present first analyses and results of a comprehensive measurement campaign investigating the propagation channel in case of direct (base station free) communication between railway vehicles. The measurements cover urban, suburban and rural environments along a multifaceted regional railway network in the south of Bavaria. Beside different operational conditions like front, rear, and flank approaches of trains, we investigated several topological scenarios on both, single and double track sections along the line. We will also discuss the observed characteristic changes in narrow band signal attenuation and Doppler spectra for passages through forests, hilly areas, stations and a tunnel
Generalized circulant Strang-type preconditioners
No full textStrang's proposal to use a circulant preconditioner for linear systems of equations with a Hermitian positive definite Toeplitz matrix has given rise to considerable research on circulant preconditioners. This paper presents an {eif}-circulant Strang-type preconditioner. Copyright (C) 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Recovery-oriented drug treatment. An interim report.
No full textTreatment for heroin addiction should have more focus on supporting patients to recover from their dependency, says the country’s top addictions expert.
In an interim report for the National Treatment Agency (NTA), Professor John Strang, head of the National Addiction Centre, signals the direction of new clinical guidance for treating the estimated 260,000 heroin addicts in England.
As chair of an expert group looking at how the range of treatments used in drug addiction can have a clearer recovery orientation, Prof Strang recommends that treatment should:
* incorporate wider social interventions as well as medication to support recovery outcomes
* include considered provision of medications including opiate substitution treatment (OST) to gain maximum benefit
* guard against incorrect provision or unnecessary drift into long-term maintenance on substitute prescriptions
In a checklist of good practice based on the scientific evidence, Prof Strang recommends that clinicians working in drug treatment should review all their patients to ensure they are working to achieve abstinence from their problem drugs, and give them the opportunity to come off medication when they are ready to do so.
The report updates the coalition Government about the work of the expert group after the 2010 Drug Strategy called for more recovery activities for those on a substitute prescription, and an increase in the numbers of heroin users leaving treatment free of their drugs of dependency.
The expert group will publish its full report and guidance early next year, but in his interim report on Recovery-Oriented Drug Treatment Professor Strang said: “The drive in recent years to reduce waiting lists and retain people in treatment has generally been successful with the result that much larger numbers of patients with addiction problems now enter treatment. This has undoubtedly been accompanied by significant benefits for many patients and the communities in which they live.
“However, the desire of clinicians to secure these benefits has led, in some instances, to over-reliance on medication and patients being allowed to drift into long-term maintenance. As a consequence, insufficient attention may have been paid to reviewing the actual benefits gained, reconsidering alternative methods to maximise the prospect of personal recovery, and adjusting treatments so that greater recovery could be achieved.
“The prescribing of any medication (and perhaps especially of OST) must not be allowed to become detached and delivered in isolation from other crucial components of effective treatment. Other elements of overall care need also to be considered, including individual recovery care planning, psychosocial interventions and integration with mutual aid and peer support. All of these, in different combinations with different patients, and adjusted over time, can and do support recovery.”
Professor Strang makes clear that while treatment needs to concentrate on helping users overcome their dependence, clinicians must also be wary of the threat of relapse. By calling on the full range of psychosocial and pharmacological approaches, the risk and severity of any setbacks to recovery can be reduced
Communication Technologies for Vehicles: Third International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2011 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, March 23-24, 2011 Proceedings
No full textThe Communication Technologies for Vehicles workshop series provides an international forum on latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications in which to present original research results in all areas relating to communication protocols and standards, mobility and traffic models, experimental and field operational testing, and performance analysis
Ep. #024 - Veronica Strang
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Water, water everywhere. The human sciences have become animated by the politics, ethics and materiality of water of late and for good reason. Our guest (11:13) on this week’s Cultures of Energy podcast was one of the first to get this conversation started. Anthropologist Veronica Strang, currently Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University, is the author of The Meaning of Water (Oxford, 2004) and Water: Culture and Nature (Reaktion, 2015) and a recipient of UNESCO’s International Water Prize. We talk about how the transgressive and transformative properties of water cut across cultures and how its material liquidity complicates our cultural and legal understandings of ownership and property. Veronica explains why we have to think water across scales, from its mediation of individual bodies to how its flows form communities. We talk about the infamous case of Bolivia’s water privatization, efforts to enclose water resources across the world and how contemporary politics of water are undermining democracy. Veronica also reminds us though that efforts to centralize control over water are ancient and that the movements that are now seeking to decentralize water resources also have hope. In closing we discuss cosmological and mythological water beings ranging from rainbow serpents to Chinese water dragons to the Lambton Worm, reputed to live in Durham’s own River Wear. Is our concern with hydration and floods these days informed by the moral economy and sacred vitality of water? Has urbanization caused us to lose touch with the hydrological cycle that so powerfully informed the cultural imaginations of our ancestors? Pour yourself a glass of water and listen on
Performance of MAC protocols in beaconing Mobile Adhoc Multibroadcast Networks
No full textThe investigation of infrastructureless safety applications in
dierent transportation systems is a hot research topic. The nodes in thevnetwork are designed to advertise to the rest of the nodes informationabout the current traffic situation by means of short beacon messages containing speed, direction, positions and other relevant safety information.
The scheduling should be organized by the MAC layer so that the transmitted messages arrive successfully as soon as possible at the receiver.
The networks that support these kind of applications are Mobile
Ad-hoc Multibroadcast Networks (MAMNETs). In this paper we present
the challenges the MAC layer for MAMNETs should overcome. We discuss
the most important performance metrics of the MAC layers in order
to obtain a system independent analysis and show a survey of the factors
that may in
uence the behavior of the MAC layers
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