BACKGROUND The antiretroviral adherence club intervention was rolled out in primary health care facilities in the Western Cape province of South Africa to relieve clinic congestion, and improve retention in care, and treatment adherence in the face of growing patient loads. We adopted the realist evaluation approach to evaluate what aspects of antiretroviral club intervention works, for what se...

Abstract Rich-club ordering refers to tendency of nodes with a high degree to be more interconnected than expected. In this paper we consider the concept of rich-club ordering when generalized to structural measures different from the node degree and to non-structural measures (i.e. to node metadata). The differences in considering rich-club ordering (RCO) with respect to both structural and no...

In patients with radial club hand (RCH), there is absence of the radius and severe hypoplasia of the thumb, so both wrist stabilization and thumb reconstruction are essential. When wrist stabilization is performed, recurrence of angulation is a problem. When thumb reconstruction is done, preservation of at least one major dorsal vein is important to prevent necrosis of the reconstructed thumb. ...

in this paper, economic convergence in selected oic (36 countries) is studied. the convergence hypothesis is tested through three approaches: beta convergence, sigma convergence, and time series model. ols is used for estimating the cross section model and cross variance is used to test the distributive model. for analyzing time series model, we used augmented dicky fuller test. beta convergenc...

This study details an optimization of the golf swing, where the hand path and club angular trajectories are manipulated. The optimization goal was to maximize club head velocity at impact within the interaction kinetic limitations (force, torque, work, and power) of the golfer as determined through the analysis of a typical swing using a two-dimensional dynamic model. The study was applied to f...

We describe two opposing combinatorial properties related to adding clubs to ω2: the existence of a thin stationary subset of Pω1 (ω2) and the existence of a disjoint club sequence on ω2. A special Aronszajn tree on ω2 implies there exists a thin stationary set. If there exists a disjoint club sequence, then there is no thin stationary set, and moreover there is a fat stationary subset of ω2 wh...

In this paper we examine a two-period static club economy where individuals of distinct types decide whether or not to subscribe to clubs at each period. We show that neither facility sizes nor consumption group sizes are affected by variable participation rates because all individuals agree over the benefits of club quality. Variable participation rates and identical preferences for club quali...

Congenital radial club hand (RCH) is an uncommon congenital anomaly characterized by various degrees of deficiency along the preaxial or radial side of the extremity. We present one such case of Type 4 congenital isolated RCH who presented to a tertiary care center in the Middle East.