nor simply of reading English medical books, but it was the result of careful and actual observations of the effects of the American drug on patients treated in the Lahore College Hospital. Here I found that, though the gastric sufferings of a majority of patients after taking ipecacuanha were often great in spite of all precautious taken to prevent them, they were more than amply compensated b...

The 2009 pandemic of H1N1 influenza, compounded with seasonal influenza, posed a global challenge. Despite the announcement of post-pandemic period on 10 August 2010 by the WHO, H1N1 (2009) virus would continue to circulate as a seasonal virus for some years and national health authorities should remain vigilant due to unpredictable behaviour of the virus. Majority of the world population is li...

The Korean government implemented a 52-h workweek policy for employees’ welfare. Consequently, companies face workforce availability reduction with the same number of employees. That is, labor-dependent suffer from shortage. To handle shortage, they increase irregular employees who are paid relatively less. However, problem ‘no-show’, due to stochastic characteristics employee’s absence, happen...

In India a symptom-free man returning from Liberia after being treated for Ebola virus disease (EVD) was recently put into isolation because his semen was still positive for the virus. 2 Even though blood, saliva, and urine samples gave negative results, he will remain in isolation until his semen also tests negative, which could take as long as three months. There is no conclusive evidence of ...

A unified method for statistical anomaly detection in intrusion detection systems is theoretically introduced. It is based on estimating a dispersion measure of numerical or symbolic data on successive moving windows in time and finding the times when a relative change of the dispersion measure is significant. Appropriate dispersion measures, relative differences, moving windows, as well as tec...