background & aim: drought stress, as a main abiotic stress, has a significant influence on growth and metabolic activities of plant species. in this study, the influence of reduced irrigation on dry herbage, essential oil yield, and chemical components of two thyme species were investigated. experimental: this study was done in an experimental greenhouse, i.a.u., shahrekord branch, iran at...

OBJECTIVES The Myanmar Ministry of Health has formed a partnership with Australasian professional colleges and international medical specialists to deliver a comprehensive programme for emergency care training and development. We describe this programme, emphasising the training of the first emergency specialists for Myanmar. METHODS Eighteen junior specialists (EM18) joined a new postgraduat...

Information must take up space, must weigh, and its flux must be limited. Quantum limits on communication and information storage leading to these conclusions are here described. Quantum channel capacity theory is reviewed for both steady state and burst communication. An analytic approximation is given for the maximum signal information possible with occupation number signal states as a functi...

In an evidence-based health care environment, healthcare professions require a sustainable research culture to remain relevant. At present however, there is not a mature research culture across the chiropractic profession largely due to deficiencies in research capacity and leadership, which may be caused by a lack of chiropractic teaching programs in major universities. As a response to this c...

A fundamental resource in all communication systems and especially in wireless networks which comes at a premium is capacity. While there is a myriad of external factors influencing system capacity, one of the key issues is spectrum availability. Researchers around the globe are therefore constantly trying to invent novel spectrally efficient techniques to improve bandwidth efficiency. SEFDM is...

A portable 4 × 4 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) testbed that is based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and which operates in the 902–928MHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band has been developed by the High Capacity Digital Communications (HCDC) Laboratory at the University of Alberta. We present a description of the HCDC testbed along with MIMO channel capacities tha...

BACKGROUND Divine Word University (DWU) is an emerging national university of Papua New Guinea (PNG) based in the provincial capital of Madang, providing training for Health Extension Officers (HEOs). HEOs form the backbone of healthcare delivery in PNG as clinicians, public health officers and health centre managers. Both campus-based and clinical teaching at the nearby Modilon Hospital is lim...