The personality of healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, and any employee who directly provide supportive services to a patient, is vital in health service quality, contributing the hospital’s brand image. Malaysia has successfully built that image attracting many Indonesians have treatment this country. This study aims examine effect workers’ personalities on quality at Malaysian hosp...

Because the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) differs among the 3 countries forming the Euregio Meuse-Rhin (EMR) region (Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands), cross-border healthcare requires information about the spread of MRSA in the EMR. We investigated the emergence, dissemination, and diversity of MRSA clones in the EMR by using several typing methods. MRSA...

The 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was contained largely through traditional public health interventions, such as finding and isolating case-patients, quarantining close contacts, and enhanced infection control. The independent effectiveness of measures to "increase social distance" and wearing masks in public places requires further evaluation. Limited data exist on ...

1941-1942, many Middle Stone Age industries were revealed. In addition, an infant burial was found in the assemblage. This finding lead archeologists to think that there may have been earlier hominid habitation in the Border cave site. Geologist H. B. S. Cooke did geological studies of the Border Cave assemblages. In 1974, a hominid mandible was found during an excavation along with younger MSA...

Recently, there are two mainly methods for SMEs operating cross-border e-commerce in China. One is online store of firms via the cross-border third party platform. The other is the online store of firms built by themselves for export markets expansion. Based on the analysis of cross-border e-commerce process, we explore four factors which may affect the mode selection of cross-border e-commerce...

banana xanthomonas wilt is a systemic disease of banana plants. we investigated the risk of spreading xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (xcm) through asymptomatic mature bunches. samples of banana fingers and rachis from markets within kampala, uganda and at border points of uganda with dr congo, tanzania, rwanda and kenya were tested for the presence of xcm through recovery of the bacteriu...

background vermilion irregularities are common secondary deformities after cleft lip repair, regressed or resected hemangiomas, trauma and tumor surgeries. vermilion deficiency attracts considerable attention and detracts from an otherwise excellent lip repair. minor and moderate vermilion defects can be corrected with upper lip advancement, rotation flaps, tongue flaps or grafts. major defects...

Microbead-based diagnostic technology has been explored in academia for over 30 years. As the technology matured, it became clear that this was a competitive platform for multiplexed pointof-care diagnostics for a number of different applications spanning from healthcare, border defense, food safety and environmental monitoring. To realize the benefits of this technology to Canada and the rest ...

In The BMJ this week, two experts debate whether doctors should boycott working in Australia's immigration detention centres. Dr David Berger at Broome Hospital in Western Australia, argues that however compassionate their intentions, " doctors who treat people who have been tortured and then acquiesce in the continuation of torture themselves are supporting torture. " On the other hand, Profes...