BACKGROUND Effectiveness of Chlamydia screening programs is determined by an adequate level of participation and the capturing of high-risk groups. This study aimed to evaluate the contribution of automated reminders by letter, email and short message service (SMS) on package request and sample return in an Internet-based Chlamydia screening among people aged 16 to 29 years in the Netherlands. ...

round heart disease is a disease of unknown etiology in turkey. the objective of this study was to examinethe effect of different amounts of sodium chloride in inducing cardiomyopathy in turkey poults. there are some reports that hypoxia and furazolidone can induce cardiomyopathy in turkey. two hundred 2-day-old turkey poults were wing-banded and placed randomly into 6 groups and 24 replicates ...

this study evaluated the histopathologic changes in the round window niche. , and membrane in cases of chronic suppurative otitis media. the pathologic process was found in all subjects. fibrocystic or fibrous tissue was most commonly seen, while active granulation was less developed. the round window membrane was thicker and inflamed throughout its layers. inflammatory invasion of the inner ea...

desmoplastic small round cell tumor is a rare malignant tumor that occurs primarily in young males. here, a case of small round cell tumor in an adult male successfully treated with a curative concurrent chemoradiotherapy is presented. a 58-year-old man had an intrapelvic tumor. surgical resection was attempted, but the tumor was unresectable. needle biopsy was performed and the diagnosis was s...

This paper is part of a wide debate and critical reflection on the use of ICT in nursery schools, and focuses on the use of station KidSmart in the classroom to enhance scientific learning within the logical-mathematic field. The study is organized as follows: after presenting the institutional setting within which ICT has been introduced in Italian nursery schools, some considerations are made...

This paper considers the popular but questionable technique of ‘round-trip translation’ (RTT) as a means of evaluating free on-line Machine Translation systems. Two experiments are reported, both relating to common requirements of lay-users of MT on the web. In the first we see whether RTT can accurately predict the overall quality of the MT system. In the second, we ask whether RTT can predict...

Network virtualisation has been recently presented as a mean to overcome the saturation of the current Internet by sharing the same infrastructure by different network operators. This work considers virtualisation of the wireless medium, a way to share common network physical resources by different Virtual Operators based on a Time Division Multiple Access technique. We propose an Adaptive Weig...

Previous downlink scheduling algorithms of WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), like DRR (Deficit Round-Robin) and WRR (Weighted Round-Robin), usually reserve minimum rate to each type of traffic and cannot consider the status of queue length of each connection, thus making it unsuitable for VoIP on-off traffic model. One well-designed scheduling algorithm is expected to coo...