The purpose of this study was to observe the effect of the 2004 national artemisinin-based malaria treatment policy on consumption pattern of antimalarials. The study was undertaken at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Nigeria. Prescription and sales data at our pharmacy outlets were gathered from January to December 2004 and compared with similar data for 2005 after policy int...

Investing in an Automated Compound Management System (ACMS) is a major investment and it is therefore imperative that return on investment is maximized. This article will demonstrate how the life cycle of an ACMS can be managed effectively to drive system efficiency, reduce costs, and meet customer demand to maximize return on investment. The article will discuss: • The long-term management app...

Active Contour Models (ACMs) constitute a powerful energy-based minimization framework for image segmentation, based on the evolution of an active contour. Among ACMs, supervised ACMs are able to exploit the information extracted from supervised examples to guide the contour evolution. However, their applicability is limited by the accuracy of the probability models they use. As a consequence, ...

MATLAB® is a popular tool for the engineers in the electrical and electronic fields. ACMs can also be modelled in MATLAB® in order to investigate the applications in control system. An approach of converting a Petri net model into a Simulink model is studied. As an example, a Signal ACM model is created in Simulink with Stateflow. The simulation results show that the model maintains all the req...

Cancer molecular heterogeneity might explain the variable response of EGFR mutant lung adenocarcinomas to tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). We assessed the mutational status of 22 cancer genes by next-generation sequencing (NGS) in poor, intermediate or good responders to first-line gefitinib. Clinical outcome was correlated with Additional Coexisting Mutations (ACMs) and the EGFR Proportion o...

Most Active Contour Models (ACMs) deal with the image segmentation problem as a functional optimization problem, as they work on dividing an image into several regions by optimizing a suitable functional. Among ACMs, variational level set methods have been used to build an active contour with the aim of modeling arbitrarily complex shapes. Moreover, they can handle also topological changes of t...

We give necessary and sufficient conditions for a certain class of local arithmetical congruence monoids (or ACMs) to have accepted elasticity. Let a and b be positive integers with a ≤ b and a ≡ a (mod b). Under these conditions, the arithmetic sequence a, a+ b, a+ 2b, a+ 3b, . . . is closed under multiplication and is a multiplicative semigroup. Setting M(a, b) = {a+ kb | k ∈ N0} ∪ {1} produc...

This paper presents an overview and assessment of those fully-asynchronous interprocess communications mechanisms (ACMs) which can operate in a wait-free manner. Using such ACMs can avoid temporal constraints between processes (of the kind needed to implement a synchronised rendezvous) which may lead to deadlock and unacceptable performance. The method of analysis and the comparisons use reacha...

The Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency (VAEA) was established to develop a long-term plan for the prioritised removal of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) from government-owned buildings. safest and most sustainable way end lethal legacy is through prioritised, planned, safe ACMs built environment. In this article, we describe our consolidated register (AIRSystem); custom risk assessment ...

OBJECTIVES To construct a clinical management matrix using serial fetal abdominal circumference measurements (ACMs) that will predict normal birth weight in pregnancies complicated by gestational diabetes (GDM) and reduce unnecessary ultrasound examination in women with GDM. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study of 144 women with GDM in a specialist obstetric-diabetes clinic. Women with GDM...