altered state of consciousness | ASC

net long position

Definition: Disorders in which there is a temporary loss of the sense of personal identity and full awareness of the surroundings. Include here only trance states that are involuntary or unwanted, occurring outside religious or culturally accepted situations.

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include self-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptom ...[+++]s, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

net-net accounting | NN [Abbr.]

net positive suction head |P.S.H. | NPSH

Definition: Psychotic conditions meeting the general diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia but not conforming to any of the subtypes in F20.0-F20.2, or exhibiting the features of more than one of them without a clear predominance of a particular set of diagnostic characteristics. | Atypical schizophrenia

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In a public-sector organisation, sound management means ensuring that work is conducted in compliance with the law and with a clear awareness of accountability in respect of the efficient utilisation of the public funding allocated.

The Committee on petitions keeps the finger on the pulse of the Union with regard to failings and shortcomings in the application of Community law, policies and programmes and it continues to note that citizens are very conscious of such shortcomings, because they affect them directly and because they have a direct interest in ending infringements and/or seeking redress.

As has always been my policy in my career as a judge at both the Italian Court of Auditors and the Constitutional Court, I consider that one should always have, with those who are subject to control, a clear awareness of the fine distinction between the roles allocated to each of them.