Advanced medical imaging technologies are generally unavailable in low income, tropical settings despite the reality that neurologic disorders are disproportionately common in such environments. Through a series of donations as well as extramural research funding support, an MRI facility opened in Blantyre, Malawi in July 2008. Resulting opportunities for studying common tropical disorders, suc...

1 Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Taiyuan University of Technology, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan 030024, China 2 College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China 3University of Hertfordshire, School of Engineering and Technology, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK 4Research Center on Advanced Ma...

The number of patients with HIV/AIDS who receive dental care is increasing. This study was undertaken to gain a better understanding of the attitudes of dentists enrolled in postgraduate training toward AIDS and homosexuals. Each respondent received a 500-word patient case vignette and two scales for recording impressions of the person described in the vignette. There were four vignettes, ident...

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) have proven their abilities and have been authorized to practice in many developed countries. NPs play some independent roles that previously were the roles of physicians. However, NPs have not been introduced in Japan. The main reason is that there is not enough evidence that nurses can practice independently from physicians to change the Medical Practitioners Act. Th...

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Kavita Jain, Abhishek Dasgupta and Gayatri Das Theoretical Sciences Unit and Evolutionary and Organismal Biology Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur P.O., Bangalore 560064, India Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Block HC, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India and Theoretical Sciences Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Rese...

Alexandria. Die digitale Forschungsplattform. http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch | 21.04.2009 A book/CD-ROM proceedings of a January 1999 conference, presenting abstracts of all papers from the conference, plus complete papers on CD-ROM. Themes include collaboration systems and technology, digital documents, emerging technologies, information technology in health care, the Internet and the digital ...

This paper presents a toolbox developed in Matlab for analysis and design of fractional order control systems that can be used in advanced control courses within the context of master and doctorate education. The toolbox includes a user friendly interface for every function. One can obtain time and frequency analysis tools both for the fractional order control systems and fractional order contr...

Each nation has its own specific features, national character, moral norms, customs, manners, traditions, and lifestyle. Each nation has its own culture that has developed over hundreds of years and certainly affects the people’s way of life and educational process. The desire to teach descendants progressive traditions and advanced morality, to cultivate their positive qualities is a sign of r...

background: combination chemotherapy is accepted as a high efficacy treatment for gastric cancer, whereas choice of standard treatment is unclear. multiple chemotherapeutic regimens have been used to achieve higher efficacy and lower toxicity. this study was designed to evaluate the treatment results of advanced gastric cancer with capecitabine and oxaliplatin regimen. subjects and methods : al...