To prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and limit the development of drug-resistant strains, the World Health Organization and the Canadian TB Standards recommend Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) for TB patients.1,2 In Toronto, DOT is conducted by Toronto Public Health (TPH) staff who visit patients with active TB 3 to 7 days/week over the course of their treatment (i.e., 6 to 24 months) to m...

Let $R$ be a commutative ring with identity and $M$ be a unitary $R$-module. Suppose that $phi:S(M)rightarrow S(M)cup lbraceemptysetrbrace$ be a function where $S(M)$ is the set of all submodules of $M$. A proper submodule $N$ of $M$ is called an $(n-1, n)$-$phi$-classical prime submodule, if whenever $r_{1},ldots,r_{n-1}in R$ and $min M$ with $r_{1}ldots r_{n-1}min Nsetminusphi(N)$, then $r_{1...

Recall that a commutative ring R is said to be a pseudo-valuation ring if every prime ideal of R is strongly prime. We define a completely pseudovaluation ring. Let R be a ring (not necessarily commutative). We say that R is a completely pseudo-valuation ring if every prime ideal of R is completely prime. With this we prove that if R is a commutative Noetherian ring, which is also an algebra ov...

In this paper, by using elementary tools of commutative algebra,we prove the persistence property for two especial classes of rings. In fact, thispaper has two main sections. In the first main section, we let R be a Dedekindring and I be a proper ideal of R. We prove that if I1, . . . , In are non-zeroproper ideals of R, then Ass1(Ik11 . . . Iknn ) = Ass1(Ik11 ) [ · · · [ Ass1(Iknn )for all k1,...

This paper deals with a question regarding tight closure in characteristic zero which we now review. Let R be a commutative ring of prime characteristic p and let I ⊆ R be an ideal. Recall that for e ≥ 0, the e-th Frobenius power of I, denoted I [p e], is the ideal of R generated by all p-th powers of elements in I. We say that f ∈ I∗, the tight closure of I, if there exists a c not in any mini...

A pseudo-addition in BL-algebras is a binary operation that is associative and non commutative. The aim of this paper is to use the notion of pseudo-addition to study the notion of ideal and fuzzy ideal as a natural generalization of that of ideal and fuzzy ideal in MV-algebras. Using a pseudo-addition, we characterize fuzzy ideals and also obtain a concrete description of the fuzzy ideals gene...

In this work, we attempt to investigate the connection between various types of ideals (for examples (m,n)-ideal, bi-ideal, interior-ideal, quasi-ideal, prime-ideal and maximal-ideal) of an ordered semigroup (S, ·,≤) and the corresponding, hyperideals of its EL-hyperstructure (S, ∗) (if exists). Moreover, we construct the class of EL-Γ-semihypergroup, associated to a partially-ordered Γsemigroup.

The fundamental concept of a fuzzy set, introduced by Zadeh in his classic paper [5] of 1965, has been applied by many authors to generalize some of the basic notions of algebra. In this note we characterize the semigroups for which each fuzzy ideal is prime, also the semigroups for which each fuzzy right ideal is prime. In Section 2, we prove that a semigroup is fully fuzzy prime if and only i...