Report of the Working Group on Treatment of Under 18 olds Presenting to Treatment Services with Serious Drug Problems

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Friedrich Nietzsche i Oscar Wilde : la qüestió humana, una anàlisi comparada

Anàlisi comparativa de l'obra de Nietzsche i de Wilde en relació als eixos de la vida, l'home i la societat. S'analitza com ambdós autors intenten de fer l'home més humà i quines mesures proposen, la qual cosa implica tractar també què s'entén per vida (dimensió individual) i com l'home s'ha de relacionar amb la resta de la humanitat (dimensió social).

Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels.

To identify previously unknown genetic loci associated with fasting glucose concentrations, we examined the leading association signals in ten genome-wide association scans involving a total of 36,610 individuals of European descent. Variants in the gene encoding melatonin receptor 1B (MTNR1B) were consistently associated with fasting glucose across all ten studies. The strongest signal was observed at rs10830963, where each G allele (frequency 0.30 in HapMap CEU) was associated with an increase of 0.07 (95% CI = 0.06-0.08) mmol/l in fasting glucose levels (P = 3.2 x 10(-50)) and reduced beta-cell function as measured by homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-B, P = 1.1 x 10(-15)). The same allele was associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes (odds ratio = 1.09 (1.05-1.12), per G allele P = 3.3 x 10(-7)) in a meta-analysis of 13 case-control studies totaling 18,236 cases and 64,453 controls. Our analyses also confirm previous associations of fasting glucose with variants at the G6PC2 (rs560887, P = 1.1 x 10(-57)) and GCK (rs4607517, P = 1.0 x 10(-25)) loci.

Teenage immunisations for ages 14 to 18 (English and 10 translations) 2009

This booklet explains about the routine immunisations that are offered to all young people before they leave school

Teenage immunisations for ages 14 to 18 (English and 10 translations) 2010

This booklet explains about the routine immunisations that are offered to all young people before they leave school.

A Report from a Local Initiative Concerning Alcohol / Drug Use Among Teenagers 1998-1999

This study was carried out by participants in a North Tipperary Community Services drug/alcohol awareness course. Its objectives were to: assess the level of drug and alcohol awareness among second-level students under the age of 18 years; to find out the extent of under-age drinking;to find out the extent of the use of illegal substances as well as stimulants such as glue and solvents in this age group; and to use this information to develop educational programmes for parents and students. Date was obtained through a survey of 1500 secondary school students in the North Tippeary area. The survey found that, although ilict drug use was very low, abuse of alcohol was quite common.This resource was contributed by The National Documentation Centre on Drug Use.

Development of allocentric spatial memory abilities in children from 18 months to 5 years of age.

Episodic memories for autobiographical events that happen in unique spatiotemporal contexts are central to defining who we are. Yet, before 2 years of age, children are unable to form or store episodic memories for recall later in life, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Here, we studied the development of allocentric spatial memory, a fundamental component of episodic memory, in two versions of a real-world memory task requiring 18 month- to 5-year-old children to search for rewards hidden beneath cups distributed in an open-field arena. Whereas children 25-42-months-old were not capable of discriminating three reward locations among 18 possible locations in absence of local cues marking these locations, children older than 43 months found the reward locations reliably. These results support previous findings suggesting that allocentric spatial memory, if present, is only rudimentary in children under 3.5 years of age. However, when tested with only one reward location among four possible locations, children 25-39-months-old found the reward reliably in absence of local cues, whereas 18-23-month-olds did not. Our findings thus show that the ability to form a basic allocentric representation of the environment is present by 2 years of age, and its emergence coincides temporally with the offset of infantile amnesia. However, the ability of children to distinguish and remember closely related spatial locations improves from 2 to 3.5 years of age, a developmental period marked by persistent deficits in long-term episodic memory known as childhood amnesia. These findings support the hypothesis that the differential maturation of distinct hippocampal circuits contributes to the emergence of specific memory processes during early childhood.

Le Règne, Jésus et la Loi (Q 16,16-18)

(Résumé de l'ouvrage) Le Dieu qui juge : voilà un sujet de la théologie biblique qui n'est pas sans poser problème ! Le jugement est-il l'expression de la violence de Dieu ou d'un esprit vindicatif ? S'y manifeste-t-il une image choquante de Dieu, en particulier à une époque qui, à raison, se montre sensible à toute sorte de violence légitimée par des motifs religieux ? Les auteurs de ce volume, amis et collègues de Raymond Kuntzmann, professeur d'Ancien Testament à l'université Marc-Bloch de Strasbourg, ont abordé ce thème du jugement afin de faire apparaître la multitude d'aspects que revêt ce terme trop général. D'où le besoin d'examiner à frais nouveaux tout un ensemble de textes pour replacer le jugement dans tous ses contextes, tant historiques que théologiques. A y regarder ainsi de plus près, il résulte que l'idée de jugement est étroitement liée à celles de droit et de justice, valeurs dont Dieu s'avère être le garant ultime, et à celles de miséricorde et de salut. Et l'on suivra ici ses transformations remarquables au fil de l'évolution de la théologie biblique. Le présent volume, qui est consacré aux textes de l'Ancien Testament, est complété par un autre portant sur les textes du Nouveau Testament.

La Ruta del Ter

Desenvolupament d¿un portal web en el qual s¿utilitzen Sistemes d¿informació Geogràfica (SIG) per mostrar deforma interactiva informació sobre punts d¿interès, infraestructures de lazona al voltant del riu Ter i notícies d¿actualitat.

Teenage immunisations for ages 14 to 18 (English and translations)

This booklet explains about the routine immunisations that are offered to all young people before they leave school.