To survey the microbiological contamination of laboratory mice and rats in Korea during a 5-year period, we monitored animals housed in mouse and rat facilities with either barrier or conventional systems. At barrier and conventional mouse facilities, the most important pathogen identified was mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), while Mycoplasma pulmonis was the most important pathogen at conventional...

This paper presents a portable and adaptive mobile agent system. The system consists of a core system and subcomponents like micro-kernel operating systems. The core system offers only the minimal and common facilities and the latter is implemented as a collection of mobile agents which offer various facilities independent on its execution environment. The system can dynamically evolve and exte...

A micro kernel-based operating system architecture is becoming common for advanced distributed computing systems. However, a current microkernel lacks the support of realtime facilities such as a real-time scheduling and synchronization. These facilities are very important for future operating systems to support audio and video. Real-Time Mach provides real-time facilities to make real-time app...

BACKGROUND Measurement of function is an essential component of routine rehabilitation work (mainly for quantifying function at different phases in the rehabilitation process), rehabilitation policy (admission and discharge criteria, length of stay in rehabilitation), goal setting, and outcome measurement. OBJECTIVE To explore the scope of the scales used for function assessment by the variou...

PURPOSE Increased use of contraceptive services, including long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), among sexually active teens and young adults could significantly reduce unintended pregnancy. Objectives were to describe youth-friendly contraceptive services (including LARC) available to teens and young adults at U.S. publicly funded family planning facilities. METHODS Between April an...

Abstract A total of 958 specimens farmed common carp Cyprinus carpio from eight the most significant and largest cyprinid aquaculture facilities in Macedonia (pond cage culture systems) were examined for parasitological investigation three years. The following parasite species genus Dactylogyrus identified: extensus, minutus anchoratus . highest prevalence was determined D. extensus (38.8%), fo...

OBJECTIVES To compare availability, cost, affordability and sources of anti-diabetic drugs between private and public health facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. DESIGN Cross sectional descriptive study. SETTING Diabetic clinics in private and public health facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. SUBJECTS Eighty patients randomly selected and 45 health facility personnel staff working in...

Objectives Toidentify the common causes and risk factors of neonatal deaths in facilities in five regions in Namibia. Methods This descriptive study was carried out atall health facilities providingmaternity care services in the five regions, A total of 498 neonatal deaths recorded in each of the facilities during the period under study January 1, 2010–June 30, 2012 were reviewed. These deaths ...