BACKGROUND In Canada, the majority of HIV-positive pregnant women receive combination antiretroviral therapy that includes a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. However, protease inhibitor-based combination antiretroviral therapy has been associated with increased rates of preterm, low birth weight, and small for gestational age births. Our previous...

This paper reports on a collaborative industrial pilot project on the use of formal methods in the development of safety-related software. In particular we report on our experiences with the use of the reenement techniques ooered by the Cogito methodology as part of the pilot project. The project focused on a software subsystem of a testing device that determines the operational status of a pie...

The purpose of this study was to compare indicators of process and outcome of midwifery services provided in the Quebec pilot projects to those associated with standard hospital-based medical services. Women receiving each type of care (961 per group) were matched on the basis of socio-demographic characteristics and level of obstetrical risk. We found midwifery care to be associated with less ...

OBJECTIVE Our goal was to determine the feasibility of school staff voluntarily adopting strategies to deliver health-promotion messages to primary and middle school students during the school day. METHODS During the 2006-2007 school year, we provided a resource kit with strategies for promoting physical activity and healthy eating through use of the 5-2-1-0 message (encouraging > or =5 servi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the feasibility of a community-based screening program using human papillomavirus (HPV) self-sampling in a low-income country with a high burden of cervical cancer. METHODS A pilot study was conducted among 205 women aged 30-69years in the Kisenyi district of Kampala, Uganda, from September 5 to October 30, 2011. Women were invited to provide a self-collected specimen for...

PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. The atmospheric conditions at Dome C deliver a high sensitivity, high photometric precision, wide-field, high spatial resolution, and high-cadence imaging capability to the PILOT telescope. These capabilities enable a unique scienti...

The use of pilot studies to evaluate the economic justification of technology projects is common in practice. The pilot studies play even greater role in the projects affecting customer interactions with the product/service offerings since perception and/or reaction of customers is captured and analyzed through such studies. Yet, many times the methodology used in these studies lacks rigor and ...

Abstract Pilot projects have emerged in cities globally as a way to experiment with the utilization of suite smart mobility and emerging transportation technologies. Automated vehicles (AVs) become central tools for such city governments industry explore use impact this technology. This paper presents large-scale assessment AV pilot U.S. understand how are being used examine risks benefits AVs,...