Special Issues

Depression is a common symptom when a client is diagnosed as HIV positive or with AIDs. In a recent study investigators studied the efficacy of two SSRI medications, fluoxetine (Prozac) and sertraline (Zoloft), in treating depressed women who were HIV positive (Ferrando, Rabkin, de Moore, Rabkin, 1999). Thirty women were enrolled in an eight-week open trial. The mean age of the women was 35 and most of their HIV risk was related to intravenous drug use (53%) or heterosexual contact (40%). Eighteen women actually completed the study, and the most fie-quently reported adverse effect was anxiety, overstimulation, and insomnia. 

Studies such as this one help to establish that HIV-seropositive women who are depressed can benefit from taking medications. Attention should not be diverted, however, from the need for aggressive outreach, education, and attention to the essential issues these women will have to face as a consequence of the illness. A diagnosis of HIV or AIDS can be overwhelming, and there are many aspects of the client s life that will need to be addressed. The importance of individual assessment, counseling, and education cannot be overestimated. In addition, clients should be made aware that the two major side effects of anxiety and insomnia may further jeopardize a woman s emotional and physical health. Through counseling 

TSC-LAM can be discovered by screening TSC patients with HRCT, while S-LAM almost always comes to attention in patients undergoing clinical evaluation for a medical problem. It is not surprising, therefore, that LAM manifestations in published TSC-LAM series (5,116) are generally milder than in studies with S-LAM. Alternatively, TSC-LAM may be an inherently milder condition. Patients with TSC-LAM have a lower frequency of abdominal 

The remarkable gender restriction in LAM, though unexplained, has provided the rationale for the empiric antiestrogen strategies that have dominated the approach 

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See Chemical Engineering News, April 24, 1989, p. 37. la. W. N. Unertl and M. Grunze, Physical and Chemical Mechanisms of Tribology, special issue, Langmuir, 12, 4481-4610 (1996). 

A special issue devoted to review articles on various aspects of van der Waals molecules. 

See articles in the special issue on Raman spectroscopy and surface phenomena 1991 J. Raman Spectrosc. 22 727-839... 

Connor J N L (ed) 1999 Chemical reaction theory Rhys. Chem. Chem. Rhys. 1(6) (special issue)... 

A good introduction to the physics of laser cooling and trapping can be found in two special issues of tire Journal of the Optical Society of America B. These are ... 

For an introduction to current research in alkali-atom BEC see tire special issue on BEC in the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology ... 

Hwang G S and Glapis K P 1999 Pattern-dependent charging In plasmas IEEE Trans. Plasma Sc/. Special Issue Images In Plasma Science 27 102... 

Tolstorukov, M.Ye., Gatash, S.V., Maleev, V.Ya. Self-organization and non-iinear dynamics of nucleic acid-water system. Special Issue of Int. J. Bif. Chaos (in press)... 

Rioux, F., 1987. Eur. J. Phys. 8, 297, See also Advanced Chemistry Collection Special Issue 2nd ed. Division of Chemical Education, American Chemical Society, 2001. 

J. J. Schan2, Jr., 1978 0/7and Gas Resources—Welcome to Uncertainty Resources (Special Issue), Resources Eor The Euture, Washington, D.C., 1978,... 

Chemistry In Britain, Special Issue on Computational Chemistry, Nov. 1990. 

M. H. Rand, in G. Kubaschewski, ed., Plutonium Physicochemical Properties of its Compounds and Alloys, Atomic Energy Review, Vol. 4, Special Issue No. 1, IAEA, Vienna, Austria, 1966. 

A. L. Robinson, Science 195, 1179 (1977), special issue devoted to the electronics revolution. 

R. O. Gmbel, ed.. Metallurgy of Elemental and Compound Semiconductors, Interscience Pubhshers, New York, 1961. Discusses eady work on semiconductor dendrites and other methods of growing shaped crystals. The special issue of / Cyst. Growth (Sept. 1980) is devoted to shaped crystal growth. 

Vacuum systems, largely for the semiconductor industry, are the main source of sales (see Semiconductors). The sales of all vacuum equipment, pumps (qv), valves, sensors (qv), etc, in the United States, including apphcations not in vacuum systems, generally exceed 500 X 10 /yr. A reasonably comprehensive hst of high vacuum manufacturers is supphed by the American Vacuum Society s exhibitor s hst. In Europe, a special issue of the journal A acuum serves similady. 

H. H. Murray, ed., Mpplied Clay Science, Vol. 5, No. 5 and 6, Mar. 1991. Special issue on some appHcations of selected clay minerals. 

R. M. C. So, H. C. Mongia, and J. H. Whitelaw, Turbulent Reactive Flow Calculations, special issue of Combustion Science and Technology, Gordon and Breach Science Pubhshers, Inc., Montreux, Swit2erland, 1988. 

Journal of Computer-MidedMolecular Design 4(1), (1990). Special issue devoted to MOPAC. 

B. Rau and co-wotkets, IEEE Computer 1989). Special issue devoted to design of high performance computers. 

Mcc. Chem. Res. 25, 98—175 (Mar. 1992). A special issue on fuUerenes, small three-dimensional carbon cages such as C q, although many other C are now known as weU, including their metal derivatives. 

American Dental Association, "Guide to Dental Health," J. m. Dent. y4ssoc. 116, 13-G special issue (1988). 

B Roux, T Simonson, eds. Implicit Solvent Models for Biomolecular Simulations. Special Issue of Biophys Chem Amsterdam Elsevier, 1999. 

Gill, W.N., Garside, J. and Berty, J. M., Editors, 1989, Special Issue on Kinetic Model Development, Chem. Eng, Comm. 76. 

Burns, R.S. (1995) The Use of Artificial Networks for the Intelligent Optimal Control of Surface Ships, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 20(1) Special Issue Advanced Control Signal Processing for Oceanic Applications, 20(1), pp. 66-72. 

The problems involved in orienting polymers for improved properties were first surveyed in a special issue of Journal of Materials Science (Ward 1971b). Another early survey of this important modern technology was a book edited by Ciferri and Ward (1979), while a recent authoritative account of the modern technology is by Bastiaansen (1997). 

Earlier, a special issue of Materials Science and Engineering (Jones and Kurz 1984) to mark the 30th anniversary of the identification of constitutional supercooling includes 21 concise survey papers which constitute an excellent source for assessing the state of knowledge on solidification at that stage. Another source is a textbook (Kurz and Fisher 1984) published the same year. 

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