INTRODUCTION Nurses play a key role in the provision of health care. Over 70% of the nurses in Kenya are Enrolled Community Health Nurses (ECHNs). AMREF in partnership with Nursing Council of Kenya and the Ministry of Health pioneered an eLearning Nurse Upgrading Programme. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers that hindered enrolment into the programme. METHODS A descriptive cro...

Several problems arising in the areas of communication networks and VLSI design can be expressed in the following general form: Enhance the performance of an underlying network by upgrading some of its nodes. We investigate one such problem. Consider a network where nodes represent processors and edges represent bidirectional communication links. The processor at a node v can be upgraded at an ...

Garmendia (AFTPI). The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the view of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Abstract Recent research suggests that isolation from regional and international markets has contributed significantly to poverty in many Sub-Saharan Af...

PURPOSE Active surveillance (AS) is a treatment option for men with very low-risk prostate cancer (PCa); however, favorable outcomes achieved for men in AS are based on cohorts that under-represent African American (AA) men. To explore whether race-based health disparities exist among men with very low-risk PCa, we evaluated oncologic outcomes of AA men with very low-risk PCa who were candidate...

background and purpose: the performance of full-scale moving bed biofilm reactor (mbbr) was evaluated as an alternative for upgrading of kish island mirmohana wastewater treatment plant. in this study activated sludge process upgrade to mbbr process and different operating parameters were compared. materials and methods: effect of upgrading on different parameters such as organic loading rate (...