Improving Fitness to Achieve Health

Improving the health of the nation: HRSA's mission to achieve health equity.

Mary Wakefield, PhD, RNa Improving the health status of the United States is predicated on reducing and eventually eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity. Meaningfully addressing health disparities is complex work and involves considering what are, at times, seemingly unrelated factors. Recognizing this challenge, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recen...

How to achieve health equity.

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PCR optimization: Improving of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) PCR to Achieve a Highly Sensitive Detection Method

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a rapid and simple technique with high sensitivity and specificity. Inthe recent years, PCR has been used for rapid detection of viral nucleic acids, such as Humancytomegalovirus (HCMV), whereas, PCR optimization is an important task to be done, especially beforeit’s diagnostic application. Annealing temperature, ion concentration (especially...

A charter to achieve health for all.

Improving XCP to Achieve Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation

TCP is shown to be inefficient and instable in high speed and long latency networks. The eXplicit Control Protocol (XCP) is a new and promising protocol that outperforms TCP in terms of efficiency, stability, queue size, and convergence speed. However, Low et al. recently discovered a weakness of XCP. In a multi-bottleneck environment, XCP may achieve as low as 80% utilization at a bottleneck l...