Catalogue of Ohio plants.

Extracted from Report of the Geological survey of Ohio, v. VII, pt. II.

The recent Australian debate about the prohibition on cannabis use

This paper outlines the ethical arguments used in the Australian debate about whether or not to relax the prohibition on cannabis use by adults. Over the past two decades a rising prevalence of cannabis use in the Australian population has led to proposals for the decriminalization of the personal use of cannabis. Three states and territories have removed criminal penalties for personal use while criminal penalties are rarefy imposed in the remaining states. Libertarian arguments for legalization of cannabis use have attracted a great deal of media interest but very little public and political support. Other arguments in favour of decriminalization have attracted more support. One has been the utilitarian argument that prohibition has failed to deter cannabis use and the social costs of its continuation outweigh any benefits that it produces. Another has been the argument from hypocrisy that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol and so, on the grounds of consistency, if alcohol is legally available then so should cannabis. To date public opinion has not favoured legalization, although support for the decriminalization of personal cannabis use has increased. In the long term, the outcome of the debate may depend more upon trends in cannabis use and social attitudes among young adults than upon the persuasiveness of the arguments for a relaxation of the prohibition of cannabis.

Harm minimization in a prohibition context - Australia

Australia ranks high internationally in the prevalence of cannabis and other illicit drug use, with the prevalence of all illicit drug use increasing since the 1970s. There are two distinctive features associated with harms from injecting drug use-high rates of death from heroin overdose and low rates of HIV infection. Australia has largely avoided a punitive and moralistic drug policy, developing instead harm minimization strategies and a robust treatment framework embedded in a strong law enforcement regime. Two illustrations of Australian drug policy are presented: legislation that provides for the expiation of simple cannabis offences by payment of a fine and the widespread implementation of agonist maintenance treatment for heroin dependence.

Vergleich der Tibia- first Technik gegenüber der Femur- first Technik bei der navigationsgestützten Implantation eines bikondylären Oberflächenersatzes vom Typ Columbus

Magdeburg, Univ., Med. Fak., Diss., 2011

Influência de alguns métodos de processamento nas propriedades organoléticas da maçã em pedaços: variedade Ohio Beauty

Foi estudada a influência de tres tratamentos com a finalidade de evitar o escurecimento enzimático (branqueamento, SO2 e ácido ascórbico) e de tres métodos de processamento (appertização, congelação e liofilização) nas propriedades organoléticas da maçã em pedaços, da variedade Ohio Beauty. Imediatamente após seu recebimento, uma terça parte das frutas foi processada. Outra terça parte foi colocada em câmara fria a 1°C por três semanas e a restante deixada sob as mesmas condições por seis semanas, sendo estas duas últimas processadas imediatamente após os respectivos tempos de armazenamento prévio. Os resultados mostraram que o melhor tratamento foi a combinação branqueamento-congelação para todos os atributos de qualidade, exceto para cor, em que a combinação ácido ascórbico-congelação foi superior. a congelação foi o método de processamento mais adequado para a variedade em estudo. O armazenamento prévio teve alguma influência nas propriedades organoléticas da maçã em pedaços, de modo que, as amostras correspondentes à parte não armazenada foram julgadas inferiores para quase todos os atributos de qualidade.

Influência de alguns métodos de controle do escurecimento enzimático nas propriedades organoléticas da maçã Ohio Beauty conservada por congelação e liofilização

Foi estudada a influência de tres métodos de controle de escurecimento enzimático (branqueamento, ácido ascórbico e SO2) nas propriedades organoléticas da maçã em pedaços da variedade Ohio Beauty, conservada por congelação e liofilização. Imediatamente após seu recebimento, uma terça parte das frutas foi processada. Outra terça parte foi colocada em câmara fria a 1°C por tres semanas e a restante deixada sob as mesmas condições por seis semanas, sendo estas duas últimas processadas imediatamente após os respectivos tempos de armazenamento prévio. Os resultados mostraram que, para a congelação, o branqueamento foi o melhor tratamento para todos os atributos de qualidade, exceto para cor, em que o ácido ascórbico foi mais eficiente. Este último foi ligeiramente superior ao SO2 quanto à qualidade geral do produto. Para a liofilização, o tratamento com SO2 foi superior ao branqueamento quanto ao sabor e qualidade geral do produto, porém, foi inferior quanto à cor. Nenhum dos tratamentos, entretanto, controlou de maneira eficiente o escurecimento no produto liofilizado.

Fishes of the Devonian Holland Quarry shale of Ohio / Robert H. Denison --

v.11:no.10(1960)

The opinion of patients with mental disorder about tobacco and its prohibition in psychiatric hospitalization

Objective: To identify the opinion of patients with mental disorder about tobacco and its prohibition during psychiatric hospitalization. Method: An exploratory study with 96 patients smokers with mental disorders hospitalized in a psychiatric ward of a general hospital. The interviews were conducted individually, using an instrument designed for this study. The content from the interviews was recorded, transcribed and submitted to a thematic content analysis. Results: The patients with mental disorder were identified as perceiving smoking during the psychiatric hospitalization as a help to support the difficulties in socialization and in the lack of activities. The permission for smoking is seen as a signal of respect to their needs. The subjects mentioned to not accept the total smoking prohibition. Conclusion: Tobacco helps to face difficulties and conflicts in the psychiatric hospitalization. There is resistance regarding the possibility to totally withdraw the smoking permission during hospitalization.



Intravitreal chemotherapy for vitreous disease in retinoblastoma revisited: from prohibition to conditional indications.

BACKGROUND: Tumour control of vitreous seeds remains challenging owing to their resistance to radiation and systemic chemotherapy. OBJECTIVE: To describe the short-term efficacy of intravitreal melphalan for vitreous disease in retinoblastoma using a new injection technique and dose. METHODS: This study is a retrospective non-comparative review of 23 consecutive heavily pretreated patients (23 eyes) with active vitreous seeding and eligible for intravitreous chemotherapy (IViC). They received a total of 122 intravitreal injections of melphalan (20-30 μg) given every 7-10 days. The ocular status was objectively monitored under anaesthesia with fundus photography. RESULTS: All patients are alive without evidence of extraocular spread (95% CI 82.19% to 100%). Concomitant treatments, including other chemotherapeutic modalities, were used until complete sterilisation of the retinal seeding source and subretinal seeds. Globe retention was achieved in 87% (20/23) of cases. All retained eyes were in complete remission after a median follow-up period of 22 months (range 9-31 months). The Kaplan-Meier estimate of ocular survival rates at 2 years was 84.14% (95% CI 62.48% to 95.28%). A localised peripheral salt-and-pepper retinopathy was noted in 10 eyes (43%) at the site of injection. CONCLUSIONS: This study reports the first clinically documented case series of patients with retinoblastoma treated with IViC. Despite a possible confounding effect of concomitant chemotherapy prescription using other routes of administration in four of the successfully treated eyes (20%), IViC achieved an unprecedented success rate of tumour control in the presence of vitreous seeding. Of note, none of the treated eyes required external beam irradiation to control the vitreous seeding. Further studies are required to assess IViC retinal toxicity and to better delineate its role in the management of retinoblastoma.

Effects of total fishing prohibition on the rocky fish assemblages of Medes Islands marine reserve (NW Mediterranean)

Visual scuba diving censuses were used to assess the effects of fishing prohibition on abundance and size structure of littoral fish populations by comparing the same benthic communities inside and outside the protected area of Medes Islands (NE Catalonia, Spain). The total number of species found was 43 in the reserve and 44 outside, but the mean value of species richness per sampling station was significantly higher in the protected area. However, diversity, heavily affected by the presence or absence of large schools of pelagic species, showed no significant differences between sites. The prohibition of fishing for 6 years is the first factor affecting the qualitative and quantitative structure of fish populations ('reserve effect'), and depth is the second factor. Thus, except in the cases of Serranus cabrilla and Mullus surmuletus, all other vulnerable species are highly sensitive to the protection measures. The size structure of all vulnerable species was found to be absolutely different at the reserve sites than in the unprotected zones, and the modal size classes of size frequency distributions were always higher in the reserve than outside. The reserve effect was significantly responsible of the differences observed in this change on size structure. Some highly vulnerable species, such as Epinephelus guaza and Sciaena umbra, have only been found in the protected area. Others, such as Sparus aurata, Diplodus cervinus and Dicentrarchus labrax, were much more frequent inside the reserve.