Infection caused by parasitic nematodes of humans and livestock can have significant health and economic costs. Treatments aimed at alleviating these costs, such as chemotherapy and vaccination, alter parasite survival and reproduction, the main selective pressures shaping life-history traits such as age to maturity, size and fecundity. Most authors have argued that the life-history evolution p...

Healthcare organisations must improve their business practices and internal procedures in order to answer the increasing demand of health professionals and the general public for more and better information. Hospitals invest massively in information systems and technology (IS/IT) in the hope that these investments will improve healthcare and meet patients’ demands. The main objective of our res...

Over a two-year period, 3479 pregnant women in the Kings' Lynn Health District were screened for neural tube defects by estimation of maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein. Most pregnancies were scanned by sonar for fetal maturity. Eight women had fetuses with open neural tube defects; four with anencephaly were associated with very high alpha-fetoprotein values. Of the four with open neural tube de...

Increased competition and market dynamics in healthcare have led to a stronger need for a strategy to amend customer relationships and for a clear understanding of how healthcare providers can improve their collaboration with key suppliers. Under the label of ‘supplier relationship management’, more research is conducted to study this phenomenon either on a social system or technical system per...

Companies are faced with the challenge of handling increasing amounts of digital data to run or improve their business. Although a large set of technical solutions are available to manage such Big Data, many companies lack the maturity to manage that kind of projects, which results in a high failure rate. This paper aims at providing better process guidance for a successful deployment of Big Da...

Skeletal maturity in 750 normal Pakistani children (400 males, 350 females) aged 1-18 y was determined by the Greulich-Pyle atlas system. Male children during first year and female children during first 2 y of life matured in conformity with Greulich-Pyle standards. After that period mean bone ages were lower than the American standards up to 15 y in males and 13 y in females (at or around pube...

Automatic diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy from digital fundus images has been an active research topic in the medical image processing community. The research interest is justified by the excellent potential for new products in the medical industry and significant reductions in health care costs. However , the maturity of proposed algorithms cannot be judged due to the lack of commonly accept...

Dr. Felig is an Established Investigator of the American Diabetes Association. Dr. Soman is a recipient of a Clinical Investigator Award (AM-00356) from the National Institutes of Health and of a Research and Development Award from the American Diabetes Association. Received for publication 20 July 1978 and in revised form 24 November 1978. Insulin binding to monocytes and insulin action as det...

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 43, No. 4, November 2011 We are approaching the shortest day of the year in the southern hemisphere and also approaching is the National Authentication Service for Health (NASH) as part of the Australian Government’s $1 billion personally controlled e-health record (PCEHR). The NASH is being delivered by IBM and the public key inf...

Children’s decision-making is complex. There are many factors that contribute to children’s decisional capacity including cognitive reasoning, developmental maturity, upbringing and circumstances. For healthcare decisions, Australian law acknowledges autonomy, permits mature children consent beneficial healthcare. Yet, it also protects them from making life-changing decisions could contravene t...