Catheter-associated UTIs can be controlled with simple interventions

Public health nutrition interventions can be simple and effective.

Can tuberculosis be controlled?

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is nearly 100% curable. However, the ability of medical and public health interventions to control TB, particularly in developing countries, is often doubted. METHODS We reviewed data for the amenability of TB to control. We considered separately control of deaths, prevalence, rate of infection and incidence. RESULTS Tuberculosis mortality can be reduced by more...

SNMPv3 Can Still be Simple?

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) was introduced in 1988. The initial version (SNMPV1) is still widely implemented, deployed, and used. SNMFV3is now in its final stages of standardization. SNMTV3 allows new capabilities for open, interoperable, and secure management on the Internet environment, SNMF’V3builds on SNMPvl and V2 to include methods for security (authentication, encryptio...

Simple Renal Cysts: Can They be Overlooked?

BACKGROUND / OBJECTIVE The availability and use of abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography for diagnostic purposes has led to frequent detection of asymptomatic renal cysts. Recent evidence suggests their association with hypertension. The aim of our study was to evaluate the presence of simple renal cysts in patients with hypertension and prehypertension. METHODS In a hospital base...

Sufficient Neurocontrollers can be Surprisingly Simple

Behaviors such as exploration and homing, that seemingly demand a complex control system, only require a perceptron that connects a robot’s sensors to its motors. This is shown by evolving such neurocontrollers for the Khepera robot. An exploitation of the robot’s perception of the environment’s geometrical shape allows the robot to encode time, even though explicitly it is not presented with t...