OBJECTIVE To establish priorities for zoonoses surveillance, prevention, and control in Bogotá, Colombia. METHODS A Delphi panel of experts in veterinary and human medicine was conducted using a validated prioritization method to assess the importance of 32 selected zoonoses. This exercise was complemented by a questionnaire survey, using the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) methodol...

Existing approaches to measuring writing performance are insufficient in terms of both technical adequacy as well feasibility for use a screening measure. This study examined the validity and diagnostic accuracy several automated text evaluation written expression curriculum-based measurement (WE-CBM) determine whether an approach improves adequacy. A sample 140 fourth grade students generated ...

Recently, spirometers have become available for use within general practice as an alternative to peak flow meters. This study investigates whether practice assistants, after comprehensive training, can effectively carry out spirometry with patients suffering from asthma and other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases. A scoring system, consisting of 20 items, was devised to determine the effec...

Ergonomic conditions of workplace settings is important for the performance companies. Especially in manufacturing industry, employees are required to have convenient conditions. If this not case, it most likely a decrease work efficiency, increase workload, and negative impacts on employee health. In study, we evaluate two ergonomic conditions, illumination noise level, different departments m...

BACKGROUND Many countries have introduced elements of managed competition in their healthcare system with the aim to accomplish more efficient and demand-driven health care. Simultaneously, generating and reporting of comparative healthcare information has become an important quality-improvement instrument. We examined whether the introduction of managed competition in the Dutch healthcare syst...

The researchers in this study examined the applicability of using an Arabic version curriculum-based measurement word reading fluency (CBM WRF). A sample 70 second-grade students, 45 average readers and 25 poor from a private school Al Ain, UAE, were randomly selected to participate study. 12-week trial demonstrated effectiveness CBM WRF monitoring progress students. In addition, was good predi...

In this paper, we introduce and analyze a modified HOL (head-of-the-line) priority scheduling discipline. The modification is incorporated to cope with the so-called starvation problem of regular HOL priority queues. We consider a discrete-time single-server queueing system with two priority queues of infinite capacity and with the introduced priority scheme. We show that the use of probability...

The Inter-system handover between UMTS and GSM is one of the key features in the third generation UMTS cellular system. The compressed mode, with variable transmission gaps and power levels, is standardized to support the inter-frequency/system handover. In this article, a capacity-based compressed mode algorithm which considers potential impacts on the capacity and the priority of operating th...