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Data regarding prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and associated common mutations is scarce from Punjab region. The study was designed to determine rate of MDR-TB among presumptive MDR-TB from Punjab and mutation patterns using GenoType MTBDRplus assay. Total of 812 consecutive...

Objective: Many trials have been conducted with regard to the relative benefits of prophylactic anti-emetic interventions given alone or in combination, yet the results remain unknown. This study reviewed the efficacy of a single prophylactic dose of dexamethasone on postoperative nausea or vomiting...

Ocean current refers to the relatively stable flow of the surface water of the ocean in a certain direction, and is the main regulator of the thermal environment on the surface of the earth. At present, the ocean current velocity detection at sea is basically a field measurement by a staff member in...

In recent years, internet has widely used in different fields. To identify a specific device, we usually use the information which attains from network packets such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, Media Access Control (MAC) address and communication port, etc. However, using this kind of information...

Background: Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder leading to progressive death of neurons in various brain regions. In advanced stages of disease there is a classical triad of movement, behavioural, and cognitive disorders. Besides there are often symptoms suggestive...

Although, the cardioprotective effects of aerobic exercise are proven, not much is known about resistance exercise. Arterial wave reflection measured as augmentation index (AIx), and pulse pressure(PP) amplification are independent prognosticators of CV morbidity and mortality. However, how these parameters...

In this research we propose to use ontology to improve the performance of an EBMT system for low-resource language pair. The EBMT architecture use chunk-string templates (CSTs) and unknown word translation mechanism. CSTs consist of a chunk in source-language, a string in target-language, and word alignment...

Change is more pervasive in the Australian Public Service than ever. Taking the number of vacancy advertisements as an indication, the more stable periods of 2008 and 2009 were followed by vast expansions in 2010 and 2011, but suddenly downturned into drastic cuts in 2012 and 2013. Public service middle...

We describe the problem of finding a harmonic map between noncompact manifold. Given some sufficient conditions on the domain, the target and the initial map, we prove the existence of a harmonic map that deforms the given map.

The last fifty years has witnessed considerable activity in research that develops computational approaches inspired by nature. There are a number of umbrella terms used by researchers to classify their contributions. This can cause problems in disseminating and sharing results and potentially restricts...

Content caching is one of the most significant features of Named Data Networking (NDN) that improves the performance. However, this feature makes the cache vulnerable to attacks that determine the recent cache access pattern. In cache privacy attack, an attacker can probe request and determine if the...

The objective of this study was to assess the patients’ perceptions of the communication skills of obstetrics and gynecology residents, highlighting areas where these skills could be improved, and comparing the patient perceptions with the residents’ self-evaluation. This was a cross-sectional study,...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a powerful risk assessment tool to eliminate the risk and improve the reliability. In this article, a novel risk priorization model based on extended TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multiple attribute decision-making) method under interval-valued...

Background: As survival in the common autosomal recessive condition Cystic Fibrosis (CF) improves, there is focus on extra-pulmonary complications. Patients with CF have increased augmentation index (AIx) at rest which is greatest in those with diabetes (CFRD). We evaluated haemodynamic response to exercise,...

Objective: The aim of the study was to asses the relationship between structural (IMT- intima-media thickness) and functional (PWV - pulse wave velocity, SBP - systolic blood pressure, PP - pulse pressure) parameters of the large arterial damage and the mean blood flow velocity (CBFV) in middle cerebral...

It is known that reproductive hormones influence both local vascular properties and autonomic nervous reactivity. The aim of our study was to measure the small artery compliance, cutaneous LD flux response to local cooling and heart rate variability in women in the third trimester of normal pregnancy...

Objectives: To compare the effect of Subclavian Flap Repair (SFR) versus end-to-end anastomosis (EEA) on arterial stiffness and systolic blood pressure in young children with aortic coarctation. Methods: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) was measured using a pulse volume recording technique (Vicorder, Skidmore...

This paper presents a study exploring and explaining the risk factors that cause businesses to lose trade secrets. The study examined the role of employees in the process of trade secrets divulgence, employee's confidentiality defined by the law, contractual obligations, inevitable disclosure, civil...

n this paper, occupational chemical poisons’ physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models are established to simulate metabolic processes in vivo based on exposure simulation software- exposure related dose estimating model (ERDEM). PBPK model establishing progress is described based on the development...

This article deals with the problem of estimating the parameters of the two-parameter exponential lifetime distribution based on Type-II hybrid censored samples from the Bayesian viewpoint. The scale and location parameters are assumed to have exponential and uniform priors respectively. Bayes point...

Aiming at the problems of low efficiency when long distance and high-inclination belt conveyor driven by multimotor is in light or idle run as well as electrical power unbalance. Control strategy for belt conveyor driven by fourmotor via fuzzy self-tuning PID control algorithm was proposed. The Speed...

Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) is currently a key paradigm used for developing safetycritical systems. It provides a fundamental means to master systems complexity, by allowing to design systems parts (i.e., components) for reuse and by allowing to develop those parts independently. One...

Given that most of property insurance policies are one-year contracts and have a high renewal, this paper establishes Auto-regressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) which considers adding lags of the dependent variable and/or lags of some independent variables. Based on the data of Insurance Premiums in...

Rule acquisition is one of the main purposes in the analysis of decision formal contexts. In general, the number of implications in a decision formal context is an exponential increase to the scale of the database. So, it is important to introduce effective inference rules between implications for eliminating...

In seeking to provide universal health care through its primary care-oriented Family Health Program, Brazil has attempted to reduce hospitalization rates for preventable illnesses such as childhood gastroenteritis. We measured rates of Primary Care-sensitive Hospitalizations and evaluated the impact...