Dyslipidemia is responsible for great mortality and morbidity each year. Little data are available on the availability and affordability of Dyslipidemia medications in low and middle incomes countries. In a retrospective time-series study, we examined the utilization pattern and affordability of lipid-lowering medications in Iran as a lower middle-income country. We initially calculated the def...

Dyslipidemia is responsible for great mortality and morbidity each year. Little data are available on the availability and affordability of Dyslipidemia medications in low and middle incomes countries. In a retrospective time-series study, we examined the utilization pattern and affordability of lipid-lowering medications in Iran as a lower middle-income country. We initially calculated the def...

introduction : infections in neutropenic patients are considered as major causes of mortality and emergence of drug resistant gram positive bacterial infections are crucially important to be covered if indicated. vancomycin is active against most gram positive bacteria including methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa). in this study, we evaluated the appropriate utilization of this a...

The aim of this work is to automatically extract quantita tive parameters from time sequences of D images D images suited to heart pathology diagnosis In this paper we propose a framework for the reconstruction of the left ventricle motion from D images based on D deformable surface models These D models are represented as a time sequence of D meshes whose deformation are correlated dur ing the...

To evaluate the hypothesis that exposure to high altitude would reduce blood glucose and total carbohydrate utilization relative to sea level (SL), 16 young women were studied over four 12-day periods: at 50% of peak O(2) consumption in different menstrual cycle phases (SL-50), at 65% of peak O(2) consumption at SL (SL-65), and at 4,300 m (HA). After 10 days in each condition, blood glucose rat...

In this paper, we present a methodology to use utilization-based admission control in guaranteed real-time communication in a scalable fashion. We make admission control scalable by using a configuration-time test to determine a safe utilization level of servers. Admission control at run-time then is reduced to simple utilization tests on the servers along the path of the new flow. Furthermore,...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Media transformation and new practices of citizenship: the example of environmental activism in South Dur-ban Journal Article How to cite: Barnett, Clive (2002). Media transformation and new practices of citizenship: the example of environmental activism in South Durban. Transformation(51), pp. 1–21.

Possession by a spirit or demon or God is an age old phenomenon which is still being reported from many countries all over the world. Possession syndrome is defined as an episodic disruption of behavior dur ing which it is presumed tha t the subject 's personality has been replaced by that of a spirit or God (Wintrob, 1973 ; Wijesinghe et al., 1976). I ts manifestations, purpose and consequence...

The aim of the study was to determine drug utilization according to Croatian counties, and to identify the causes of the possible between-county utilization variation. Zagreb Institute of Public Health in collaboration with the Croatian Drug Agency collected and analyzed data on outpatient utilization of the six main Anatomic-Therapeutic-Chemical (ATC) drug groups. Data on the number and size o...