There is a major shortage of doctors in rural areas in South Africa. An example is Mount Frere district, where the doctorto-population ratio is 1:30 000. About 46% of the population in South Africa live in non-urban areas. Achieving equity in the distribution of health workers between urban and rural areas is an important priority for the Department of Health. In other countries with large rura...

Page 221 Huntington’s disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of the polyglutamine tract in the aminoterminal region of huntingtin. The mutant protein attenuates the action of striatal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is a critical step in the pathogenesis of HD. Overexpression of BDNF in the forebrain rescues many symptoms and slows progres...

|Full Text: PDF (304 KB) 3. Bandwidth Extension Techniques for CMOS Amplifiers Shekhar, S.; Walling, J.S.; Allstot, D.J. Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of Volume 41, Issue 11, Date: Nov. 2006, Pages: 24242439 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSSC.2006.883336 Abstract |Full Text: PDF (3144 KB) 4. IEEE recommended practice for software requirements specifications IEEE Std 830-1998 Volume , I...

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Despite substantial advances in our understanding of addiction and the technology and therapeutic approaches used to fight this disease, addiction still remains a major issue in the anesthesia workplace, and outcomes have not appreciably changed. Although alcoholism and other forms of impairment, such as addiction to other substances and mental illness, impact anesthesiologists at rates similar...

This study investigated the effects of two types of written feedback – direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) - on Iranian EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of English definite and indefinite articles. Assigned to three groups of DCF, ME, and control groups, the participants took four tests in three testing phases: pretest, posttest, and delayed posttes...