OBJECTIVE Among women who are human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV+), both prevalent and persistent infections with Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) are common. TV has been shown to increase vaginal shedding of HIV, which may influence HIV sexual and perinatal transmission, making prevention important. In 1 cohort of HIV+ women in Kenya, antiretroviral therapy (ART) use, mostly nevirapine based...

The mobile market in Iran is experimenting a transition period from monopoly by the incumbent service provider to a relatively competitive market by introducing the third operator. This paper describes the result of a research concerning the dynamisms of helping the churn in the mobile network by the Number Portability service. The feature adds to the attractiveness of the whole market and pote...

Background: Stress is a significant public health concern that can be self-evaluated using the job control demands model from Karasek. Emergency care workers are particularly exposed to stress because of intrinsic characteristics associated with (i.e., life-threatening emergencies, overcrowding, lack bed spaces). However, these attributes have never been studied Karasek model. Methods: An obser...

Background: This study aims to verify if luteal estradiol pre-treatment improves IVF/ICSI outcomes in a GnRH antagonist protocol as compared to a micro dose GnRH agonist protocol in poor-responding patients. Materials and Methods: A total of 116 IVF/ICSI cycles were included in this prospective randomized clinical trial. The selected women were randomly assigned to receive an estradiol pre-trea...

abstract physical injuries during taekwondo competitions often happen due to physical contacts during fighting; therefore, a training protocol was designed in line with the physiological stress of a real competition according to la, hr and rpe changes so that the athletes could perform the techniques with a pad instead of a real opponent. for this purpose, 12 professional taekwondo players from...

Abstract A study protocol is an important document that specifies the research plan for a clinical study. Many funders such as NHS Health Research Authority encourage researchers to publish their protocols create record of methodology and reduce duplication effort. In this paper, we will describe how write protocol.