In February 2008, trained female interviewers collected data on sexual violence and use of medical services following sexual assault from 607 women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Exposure to sexual violence during the DRC's civil war was reported by 17.8% of the women; 4.8% of the women reported exposure to sexual violence after the war. Few sexual-assault survivors accessed tim...

In a networking environment, Quality-of-Service (QoS) routing plays an important role in the provision of real-time services with guaranteed throughput and bounded end-to-end delay. Its task is to nd a routing path which has su cient resources to support the requirements imposed by the applications. We propose several distributed algorithms for bandwidth-constrained routing and delay-constraine...

Resumo Introdução: A doença renal crônica (DRC) vem aumentando de forma significativa. Há evidências que grande parte da população não tem conhecimento suficiente sobre o assunto. Objetivo: Investigar na geral nível a DRC, seus fatores risco e meios prevenção. Métodos: Foi realizado estudo transversal Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, entre 2017 2020, com aplicação um questionário Resultados: Foram ent...

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a major public health problem in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Active and passive surveillance for HAT is conducted but may underestimate the true prevalence of the disease. We used ELISA to screen 7,769 leftover dried blood spots from a nationally representative population-based survey, the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey. 26 samples were...

The work presented here investigated the length effect in nonword reading aloud in order to assess whether that effect is driven by the number of letters in a string or by the number of graphemes in a string. Simulation work with the DualRoute Cascaded (DRC) model (e.g., Coltheart, Curtis, Atkins, & Haller, 1993; Coltheart & Rastle, 1994) uncovered a surprising finding regarding the length effe...

background: maternal health care utilization continues to focus on the agenda of health care planners around the world, with high attention being paid to the developing countries. the devastating effect of maternal death at birth on the affected families is untold. this study examines the utilization of obstetric care in the democratic republic of congo. we have used the nationally representati...

vesicoureteral reflux (vur) is a relatively common and important entity in children. vur can expose patient to risk of pyelonephritis, permanent renal damage or scar. vur itself has no deleterious effect on kidney parenchyma until the development of infection or increased intravesical pressure.   the diagnosis of vur could lead to appropriate therapy and prevention of long term complications. t...