Citation: Mabayoje VO. HIV/HCV Co-Infection in a Teaching Hospital in Nigeria: A Short Review. J HIV Retrovirus. 2016, 2:1. Co-infection and opportunistic infections are a major source of concern in HIV positive patients on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) [1]. The hepatitis viruses are of particular importance and also the re-emergence of Tuberculosis in parallel with incidence of ...

BACKGROUND Co-morbidity information derived from administrative data needs to be validated to allow its regular use. We assessed evolution in the accuracy of coding for Charlson and Elixhauser co-morbidities at three time points over a 5-year period, following the introduction of the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), coding of hospital discharges. METHODS Cross...

In the past, IFIP & UNESCO have supported the co-operation of the World Informatics communities in designing curricula (IFIP-UNESCO [5], [6]), conducting workshops on strategic planning (UNESCO [8], UNESCO-RINSEAP [17]), implementing (UNESCO RINSEAP [14]) and managing (UNESCO [15], [16]) Informatics-supported teaching and learning programs. The need for such internationally co-operative initiat...

This study takes teaching and learning English as a foreign language (EFL) into a gaming environment. Students fundamentally engaged in a mythological context in a 3D online virtual space called Quest Atlantis. Such an environment was in sharp contrast with how English is taught in a typical Chinese classroom in Mainland China. Preliminary findings reveal that co-questing is promising for impro...

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Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) was introduced in the 1980s and brought a new focus to the teaching of games. The participant is placed in a game situation where problem solving, decision-making and tactical understanding are vital ingredients. Another key ingredient is enjoyment to enhance and promote physical activity. In order to understand the factors that impact on the teaching of ...

reading is one of the most important basic skills for the growth of children’s intrinsic abilities which was taken into consideration by many researchers. inability in reading usually brings about many problems in learning for students. this paper reports the result of a two-groups with pre-test and post-test semi-experimental design which was done in elementary schools of mahidasht region of k...

This paper describes a non-aversive behavior management approach called gentle teaching and details supportive techniques of the approach. Principles of gentle teaching ;Ire explained, including unconditional valuing of individuals (shown by verbal valuing, gestural valuing, arid physical valuing); value reciprocation; and behavioral involvement (shown by co-participation in meaningful tasks). ...

With the development of data acquisition equipment, more and more modalities become available for gesture recognition. However, there still exist two critical issues for multimodal gesture recognition: how to select discriminative features for recognition and how to fuse features from different modalities. In this paper, we propose a novel Bayesian Co-Boosting framework for multi-modal gesture ...