"SMELL THE ROSES" (upper-case letters are the program's). The program thought I didn't smell the roses because I was leading too hectic a life. Although busy, I do nonetheless take time for such things, but I answered "No" to that question because of rather severe allergies! Nevertheless, as a patient who had just spent a considerable amount of time entering the data, I was pleased the program ...

BACKGROUND Despite the high incidence and serious consequences of skeletal metastasis in prostate cancer patients, the mechanisms involved in establishing secondary lesions in bone are not well-understood. In this study, the role of the mineralized bone matrix in the process of skeletal metastasis was evaluated. METHODS Attachment, migration, and proliferation responses of human prostate canc...

BACKGROUND The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) supports medical schools in Africa to increase the capacity and quality of medical education, improve retention of graduates, and promote regionally relevant research. Many MEPI programmes include elements of community-based education (CBE) such as: community placements; clinical rotations in underserved locations, community medicin...

Tomographic image reconstruction, such as the reconstruction of CT projection values, of tomosynthesis data, PET or SPECT events, is computational very demanding. In filtered backprojection as well as in iterative reconstruction schemes, the most time–consuming steps are forwardand backprojection which are often limited by the memory bandwidth. Recently, a novel general purpose architecture opt...

BACKGROUND Community-Based Education (CBE) is an instructional approach designed and carried out in a community context and environment in which not only students, but also faculty and Health Professionals' Education (HPE) institutions must be actively engaged throughout the educational experience. Despite the growing evidence of CBE being an effective approach for contemporary HPE, doubts abou...

A cluster randomized controlled trial was initiated in the Trivandrum district (Kerala, India) on January 1, 2006, to evaluate whether three rounds of triennial clinical breast examination (CBE) can reduce the incidence rate of advanced disease incidence and breast cancer mortality. A total of 275 clusters that included 115,652 healthy women, aged 30-69 years, were randomly allocated to interve...

Live-vaccine delivery systems expressing two model antigens from Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, F2(P97) (Adh) and NrdF, were constructed using Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium aroA (STM-1), and immunogenicity in mice was evaluated. Recombinant plasmid-based expression (PBE) and chromosomally based expression (CBE) systems were constructed. The PBE system was formed by cloning both antigen gen...

Certificate-based encryption (CBE) is a new asymmetric encryption paradigm which was introduced to solve the certificate management problem in traditional public key encryption (PKE). It combines PKE and identity-based encryption (IBE) while preserving some of their most attractive features. CBE provides an efficient implicit certificate mechanism which eliminates the third-party queries and si...

GaInP/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors(HBTs) offer significant advantages over AlGaAs/GaAs devices such as large valence band discontinuity and excellent etching selectivity as demonstrated by the authors[1] and other laboratories. Excellent microwave properties have been obtained using GaInP HBT[2] and Chemical Beam Epitaxy(CBE) using TBA/TBP precursors has been reported for material gr...