BACKGROUND The objectives of this study are to document the trend on utilisation of four or more (4+) antenatal care (ANC) over the last 22 years period and to explore the determinants and inequity of 4+ ANC utilisation as reported by the last two Bangladesh Demographic and Health surveys (BDHS) (2011 and 2014). METHODS The data related to ANC have been extracted from the BDHS data set which ...

Methods Local research ethics approval was obtained. We measured electronic system speed and accessibility (pathology results; imaging archive; PDF documents and clinical notes); conducted an inter-professional staff survey and used non-participant observation to analyse the utilisation and performance of hospital electronic systems and non-institutional resources to access and transfer key inf...

For several decades, the Fersht laboratory has been a world leader in research on protein structure and mechanism. There are pressing medical and financial needs for new medicines. Here, I use examples to illustrate how drug discovery could be more successful if it increased utilisation of approaches from the Fersht laboratory.

OBJECTIVES To determine whether there is a relation between statin utilisation and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in populations with different levels of coronary risk, and whether the relation changes over time. DESIGN Ecological study using national databases of dispensed medicines and mortality rates. SETTING Western European countries with similar public health systems. MAIN O...

The Petrea programme The Petrea research programme focused on how trees and shrubs can be brought into wider use by rural people in semi-arid Africa. The research objective was to identify rural people’s needs in relation to trees, the constraints for improving their benefits from trees, and to propose locally adapted strategies and techniques for improved utilisation of trees. Interdisciplinar...

Adaptive Congestion Control in ATM based Networks: Quality of Service and High Utilisation Andreas Pitsillides and Jim Lambert 1 Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 537, Nicosia, Cyprus. e-mail: [email protected] Laboratory for Telecommunication Research, School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology, P. O. Box 218...

Two modifications to a reference direct methanol fuel-cell (DMFC) system are considered to improve methanol fuel utilisation. Fuel utilisation can be optimised by minimising the parasitic methanol crossover by manipulating methanol concentration in the fuel cells. Simulations of the two systems indicate that there is considerable potential to increase fuel utilisation for dynamic concentration ...

Materials and methods Outpatient data from the National Health Security Office in 2011 were analysed, 4 provinces were picked to represent the pattern of service utilisation. The selection criteria emphasised on 1) availability of various types of hospitals in the province (health promoting, community, general/ regional, university hospital; and others), and 2) the maximum utilisation rate of p...