New approaches to parental substance misuse

This article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund - Copyright @ 2011 HarwinParental substance misuse is a major social problem. No-one knows exactly how many children are growing up in families where one or both parents have a drug or alcohol problem, or misuse both substances. Hidden Harm, the report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (2003), 1reported that at least 2-3% (200-300,000) of children under 16 in England and Wales live with one or two parents misusing illegal drugs. Up to 9% (1.3 million) children are estimated to be affected by parental alcohol misuse

Parental substance misuse and child welfare: Outcomes for children two years after referral

This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ 2007 The Authors.This paper reports on placement and welfare outcomes for children allocated a social worker where there was a concern about parental misuse of drugs or alcohol. All files going for allocation for long term work in four London boroughs over on average one year were examined (290 families). Of the 290, 100 families with 186 children involved concerns about parental substance misuse. File studies were carried out at allocation and two years post-referral for these children. At follow-up only 46% of the children remained with their main carer, with 26% living in the wider family and 27% in the formal care system. Logistic regression found the factors associated with children remaining at home were parental heroin misuse, violence and one or more parents being a first generation immigrant; factors associated with children moving were the child being a baby identified as at risk of harm and particular combinations who misused and family structure. A rating of welfare outcome was made based on educational, emotional/behavioural and health development. At follow-up, 47% of children had no problems, 31% had continuing problems and 22% had problems in more areas than at allocation. Regression analysis found the factors associated with poor welfare outcome were children remaining at home, domestic violence, alcohol misuse and being a boy. The combination of a high proportion of children moving carer and poor outcomes for those at home suggests that attention needs to be paid to improving outcomes in this area.The Nuffield Foundatio

Analisis Volume, Kecepatan, dan Kepadatan Lalu Lintas dengan Metode Greenshields dan Greenberg

The creation of a transportation system that ensures the movement of people, vehicles, or goods in a smooth, safe, fast, cheap, convenient, and environmentally friendly way has been the goal of country development. An increase in traffic volume will cause a change in traffic behavior. Theoretically, there is a fundamental relationship between the flow, speed, and density of traffic. Activities and land use will affect the performance of a variety of roads. Land in Jalan Wates Km 5 is used as commercial and market area that is the center of the crowd. The purpose of this study was to determine: speed, traffic volume, density, capacity, and the relationship between speed, volume and density using Greenshields and Greenberg methods, degree of saturation, and level of service. The study was conducted in one day. The result showed that the capacity of the road is still able to accommodate the volume of existing traffic

Soft hadron photoproduction at 20 GeV from protons

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Utilization of organic matter from municipal solid wastesin compost industries (Pemanfaatan Bahan Organik dari Sampah Padat Perkotaan dalam Industri Kompos)

Abstrak Dewasa ini sampah padat yang dihasilkan oleh kola besar sudah sangat banyak dan berpotensial untuk menimbulkan dampak negatif terhadap lingkungan dan Icesehatan masyarakat. Oleh karena sekitar tiga perempat dari sampah adalah biomassa maka terdapat kemungkinan untuk memproses sampah tersebut menjadi pupuk kompos. Dengan demikian berat dan volume sampah sisa yang terpaksa harus dibuang ke TPA dapat berkurang secara draslis. Proses fermentasi bahan organik ini dilakukan di pabrik kompos. Sebelum au, harus terlebih dahulu dilakukan proses pemisahan secara mekanis dan seksama untuk mernperoleh bahan organik murni dari sampahpadat. Pemisahan dilakukan oleh beberapa pasang thrower (pelempar) dan fan (penghembus). Melalui contoh kasus sebuah pabrik kompos berkapasitas 50 ton per hari beberapa peralatan dan mesin penting yang lazim dijumpai pada pabrik kompos dijelaskan pada makalah ini, demikian jugs ripe dan ukurannya

PEMROSESAN SECARA TERMAL SAMPAH PADAT DALAM RANGKA BAKAR

Abstrak Ada beberapa langkah untuk mengatasi problema sampah. Sebelum dibuang ke tempat penimbunan seharusnya sampah diproses terlebih dahulu. Salah satu tujuan pemrosesan ini ialah untuk mengurangi kadar karbon organik. Pemrosesan sebaiknya dilakukan secara termal di dalam rangka bakar. Analisis model matematis telah dilakukan terhadap proses perubahan kadar karbon di sepanjang rangka bakar. Kecepatan berkurangnya kandungan karbon merupakan fungsi dari beberapa parameter, terutama: massa udara pembakaran dan suhu reaksi sampah. Massa udara pembakaran harus dioptimalkan untuk mencapai waktu proses yang sesingkat mungkin dan rangka bakar yang sependek mungkin

Gametocytes, sporozoites and liver schizonts

Plasmodium falciparum differs from other human species of Plasmodium in the short, limited exo-erythrocytic stage in the life cycle, which is an apparent disadvantage in surviving through a prolonged non-transmission season such as occurs throughout much of tropical Africa. The mechanism of survival of the parasite from one transmission season to the next and their importance in malaria control are discussed.S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1123 (1974)

Comparing clothing-mounted sensors with wearable sensors for movement analysis and activity classification

Inertial sensors are a useful instrument for long term monitoring in healthcare. In many cases, inertial sensor devices can be worn as an accessory or integrated into smart textiles. In some situations, it may be beneficial to have data from multiple inertial sensors, rather than relying on a single worn sensor, since this may increase the accuracy of the analysis and better tolerate sensor errors. Integrating multiple sensors into clothing improves the feasibility and practicality of wearing multiple devices every day, in approximately the same location, with less likelihood of incorrect sensor orientation. To facilitate this, the current work investigates the consequences of attaching lightweight sensors to loose clothes. The intention of this paper is to discuss how data from these clothing sensors compare with similarly placed body worn sensors, with additional consideration of the resulting effects on activity recognition. This study compares the similarity between the two signals (body worn and clothing), collected from three different clothing types (slacks, pencil skirt and loose frock), across multiple daily activities (walking, running, sitting, and riding a bus) by calculating correlation coefficients for each sensor pair. Even though the two data streams are clearly different from each other, the results indicate that there is good potential of achieving high classification accuracy when using inertial sensors in clothing