REASONS FOR GRANDFAMILY FORMATION: CHANGING PATTERNS OVER 15 YEARS

Developing UPPAAL over 15 years

Uppaal is a tool suitable for model checking real-time systems described as networks of timed automata communicating by channel synchronizations and extended with integer variables. Its first version was released in 1995 and its development is still very active. It now features an advanced modelling language, a user-friendly graphical interface, and a performant model checker engine. In additio...

Changing burden of HIV/AIDS to clinical settings in Northern Thailand over 15 years.

We conducted a hospital-based descriptive study to describe the changing pattern of patient numbers, characteristics, and mortality rates among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients in northern Thailand over 15 years. The survival status on October 31, 2010 of all HIV-infected adults who attended an HIV center in a government hospital between 1995 and 2010 was ascertained. In tot...

Hypercalcaemia: changing causes over the past 10 years.

Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in people over 15 years old, Bandar Abbas, Iran

Introduction: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure is a threat for health worldwide. The aim of this study was to determine the environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in people over 15 years old in Bandar Abbas, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study a total of 387 subjects were selected by cluster sampling method. Data were collected by a questionnaire including demograph...

Changing profile of 7,519 neurologic outpatients evaluated over 20 years.

INTRODUCTION There is scarce information on the demographic profile and diseases affecting neurologic outpatients. METHODS We evaluated 7,519 neurologic outpatients over 20 years at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Neurological Sciences, Hospital-Clínica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador. RESULTS Mean age was 48 ± 19.4 years, and 57.8% were women. Common reasons for consultation include...