Northampton Community College

About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.

Gambling in Britain: A Time of Change? Health Implications from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010

Abstract: Gambling-related harm is a term that is being increasingly used in British policy circles to describe the negative impacts of gambling across a range of areas. It includes focus on the health and psychological impact on the individual but also has more comprehensive reach moving beyond the directly-affected gambler to include their families, wider social networks and community (Responsible Gambling Strategy Board 2010). The social and health costs of problem gambling are potentially large at both individual and societal levels. For instance, adverse health consequences for problem gamblers and their partners include depression, anxiety, insomnia, gastric/intestinal disorders, migraine, and other stress-related disorders (Griffiths 2004). In the UK, monitoring levels of gambling-related harm have focused on measuring the prevalence of problem gambling and estimating how many problem gamblers there are. However, from a public health perspective, this is inadequate. Not only does it fail to recognise the multiplier effect of impact associated with problem gambling, it also does not recognise a further important group of people; those at-risk of developing gambling problems. Int J Ment Health Addiction (2012) 10:273–277 DOI 10.1007/s11469-011-9319-4

Ocular blood-flow hemodynamics before and after application of a laser in situ keratomileusis ring

Abstract: Purpose To evaluate blood-flow responses before and after microkeratome application. Setting School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Methods Hemodynamic responses were measured in eyes of healthy volunteers before and after transient elevation in intraocular pressure (IOP) resulting from microkeratome application. The IOP was elevated above 85 mm Hg for 90 seconds. Blood-flow responses were measured using color Doppler imaging, Heidelberg retinal flowmetry, and an ocular blood-flow analyzer. Results The study included 10 eyes. There was no difference in ocular-perfusion measurements before or after IOP elevation using any measurement system. Conclusion In normal healthy eyes, once suction was released, blood-flow responses returned immediately to normal levels. Financial Disclosure No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

Decentralized determinantal assignment problem: fixed and almost fixed modes and zeros

Abstract: The decentralized determinantal assignment problem (DDAP) is defined as the unifying description for the study of pole and zero assignment problems under decentralized output, state feedback (DOF, DSF) and decentralized ‘squaring down’ (DSD), respectively. DDAP is reduced to a linear problem of zero assignment of polynomial combinants and a multilinear problem of restricted decomposability of multivectors. The decentralization characteristic (DC) and the decentralized polynomial Grassmann representative )D — ℝ[s] — GR) of DDAP are defined. The fixed zero polynomial of DDAP is then determined as the zero polynomial of D— ℝ[s]—GR. The canonical D—ℝ[s]—GR, (CD—R[s]—GR) and the decentralized Plucker matrix (DPM) of DDAP are introduced and necessary conditions for arbitrary assignment of the non-fixed zeros are given in terms of the DPM. The family of strongly zero non-assignable (SNA( systems is defined, and for such systems the notion of the fixed zero is extended to that of the ‘almost fixed zero’ (AFZ). An...