Beliefs and attitudes of non leprosy patients in a Nigerian hospital were assessed from 119 volunteer subjects using a questionnaire. Attitude score averaged 43.6±22.7 ranging from 0 to 100. Attitudes were poor in 37.8% of respondents, fair in 31.1%, and good in 31.1%. Beliefs averaged 53.6±20.7 (0 to 100). Beliefs were poor in 17.7%, fair in 33.6% and good in 48.7% of respondents. Attitudes co...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to display the quality of the clinical notes at Abha Psychiatric Hospital out-patient clinics. METHODS In this chart review study, a total of 380 charts were randomly collected, and reviewed for the clinical items that should be included in the psychiatric clinical notes. Each chart note quality was indicated as good, fair or poor based on means and standard deviatio...

The subjective concept of health included in the self-rated health process allows identifying factors associated with good self-rated health in populations. This cross-sectional population-based study in 2007-2008 focused on self-rated health and associated factors among adults (n = 1,516) in Rio Branco, Acre State, Brazil. The multivariate analysis used Poisson regression, with fair/poor self-...

We propose a token-bucket based rate control algorithm that satisfies both maximum and minimum rate constraints with computational complexity of O(1). The proposed algorithm allocates the remaining bandwidth in a strict priority queuing manner to the flows with different priorities and in a weighted fair queuing manner to the flows within the same priority. key words: token bucket, rate control...

OBJECTIVE We evaluate the clinical results of thoracoscopic T3-4 sympathicotomy for axillary osmidrosis. METHODS From July 1995 to June 2001, 262 patients (208 females, 54 males) with axillary osmidrosis have been treated by thoracoscopic T3-4 sympathicotomy. All patients were followed up for a minimum of 10 months (average 42 months). The patients were evaluated by telephone or mail question...

BACKGROUND Since household time and financial resources for health care are primarily spent for those household members with the most urgent health needs, individuals residing with persons in poor health may be at risk of underusing health-care services. We examined whether these individuals had a lower use of primary, specialty and preventive care than those who did not reside with persons in ...

To reduce the impact of large-sized, high-rate (α) transfers on real-time flows, a Hybrid Network Traffic Engineering System (HNTES) was proposed in earlier work. HNTES is an intra-domain solution that enables the automatic identification of α flows at a provider network’s ingress routers, and redirects these flows to traffic-engineered QoS-controlled virtual circuits. The purpose of this work ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between sociodemographic and environmental contexts on self-rated health. A population-based cross-sectional study with a random sample of 38 neighborhoods (census tracts) and 1,100 adults was carried out. Data analysis used multilevel logistic regression. Data from the Brazilian Census of 2000, mean income, years of study of the head of ...