Caring for patients with leg ulcers continues to be a challenge for healthcare professionals, particularly since the current healthcare climate of an ageing population, increased incidences of obesity and diabetes, as well as other comorbidities can complicate their management (Todd, 2014). It is estimated that 1% of the population suffer from leg ulcers at some point in their lives (Callam, 19...

quency motions, the so called "essential" degrees of freedom [1, 2], which typically appear in timescales of nanoseconds to microseconds and play important roles in signalling, activation and enzyme function. Despite the rapid growth of computer power these timescales are not accessible with current molecular dynamic simulations systems. The CONCOORD system attempts to alleviate this sampling p...

In a variety of situations the problem of enhancing speech degraded by the presence of a competing speaker or background noise arises. A possible key to such enhancement lies in the quasi—periodic nature of the speech waveform which corresponds to narrow harmonically spaced bands of energy in the frequency domain. One approach to speech enhancement has been to utilize a time— variant digital co...

One in every three people the world still lacks access to clean drinking water. Aside from microbiological pollution, high fluoride content water is one of most serious problems African countries. This study aimed contribute availability by developing a point-of-use purifier using an aluminum oxide-based flocculent-disinfectant composite. Batch experiments were conducted determine factors affec...

Abstract Currently, patients use the Internet for health information relating to surgery. The aim of this study is assess readability and quality online acromioclavicular joint reconstruction. We hypothesise that will be poor too difficult read average patient. top 50 results from Google, Bing, Yahoo (MeSH “acromioclavicular reconstruction”, “ac reconstruction”) were used analysis. Readability ...

Background: Studies of deep brain stimulation (DBS) require accurate electrode localization and image registration. We used anatomical fiducials to investigate registration errors in patients who underwent subthalamic nucleus (STN) DBS for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Methods: conducted a retrospective analysis bilateral STN PD. Pre post operative MRI scans were non-linearly normalized standard te...

In this paper, the separable programming problem subject to Fuzzy Relation Equation (FRE) constraints is studied. It is decomposed to two subproblems with decreasing and increasing objective functions with the same constraints. They are solved by the maximum solution and one of minimal solutions of its feasible domain, respectively. Their combination produces the original optimal solution. The ...

Reputation effects and other-regarding preferences have each been used to predict cooperative outcomes in markets with inefficient equilibria. Existing reputationbuilding models require either infinite time horizons or publicly observed identities, but cooperative outcomes have been observed in several moral hazard experiments with finite horizons and anonymous interactions. This paper introduc...

Heliotropium glutinosum Phil. (Heliotropiceae) is a resinous bush that grows at a height of 2000 m in Chañaral, Chile. From the resinous exudates of Heliotropium glutinosum Phil. a new aromatic geranyl derivative: 4-methoxy-3-[(2)-7'-methyl-3'-hydroxymethyl-2',6'-octadienyl] phenol (1) and three flavonoids: 5,3'-dihydroxy-7,4'-dimethoxyflavanone (2), 5,4'-dihydroxy-7-methoxyflavanone (3) and 4'...

Abstract Rehabilitation of degraded forest areas in the Forest Research and Education (FRE) Wanagama 1 was conducted by planting trees crops various agroforestry schemes. This approach is aimed to establish a successful plantation while allowing local people gaining benefits through farming land. At present, FRE has several forests stands with ground cover vegetations. research carried out esti...