BACKGROUND Approximately 90% of new tuberculosis (TB) cases notified in Norway are asylum seekers and other immigrants from high-incidence countries. Asylum seekers are screened upon arrival at the National Immigration Centre. Other immigrants receive a letter from the Municipal Health Services requesting that they present for screening in their municipality of residence. In order to identify p...

This paper presents a new curriculum for the Internet and e-business that has been developed at University of Redlands in Southern California with first offering in 2000. The paper presents the new MSIT Degree in the context of the MSIS 2000 Model Curriculum (Gorgone et al., 2000). An important similarity is an element of integration, but how the integration is achieved is different. The paper ...

To evaluate and compare the functional cosmetic results of eyes submitted to two types keratoplasty in dogs with deep or perforating corneal lesions, medical records three surgeons were reviewed. Seventy-five included, treated corneoconjunctival transposition (CCT) porcine intestinal submucosal membrane graft (MSIS). Data such as gender, age, breed, affected eye, healing time, complications, vi...

Objective
 In recent years, the prognostic and predictive values
 of scoring systems such as systemic inflammation
 score (SIS) modified (mSIS) have been investigated in colorectal
 cancers. To investigate efficacy modified
 inflammatory calculated by
 simple laboratory tests predicting presence of
 invasive carcinoma colon polyps with high-grade
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Background Though minoritized undergraduate engineering students earn less than 25% of bachelor's degrees, minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are leading the way in producing a large percentage those underrepresented degree holders. However, much published research about experiences occurs within context predominantly White institutions. Upon deeper inspection into apparent success some MSIs,...

در این پژوهش سعی می‌­شود مدلی برای شبیه‌­سازی چرخه عمر صنعت برق با استفاده از شبیه‌سازی عامل­بنیان ارائه شود، مدل، 5 عامل استخراج شد و شبیه­‌سازی به کمک نرم‌افزار Anylogic صورت پذیرفت. بهینه‌­سازی مدل چهار سناریو نظر خبرگان شد. سناریوی نخست، جذابیت نیروگاه گازی سیکل ترکیبی کاهش یافت بر دو دیگر افزوده نتیجه افزایش تولید آبی است که توجه کمبود منابع کشور به‌صرفه نیست. دوم ورود یک فناوری جدید میزان...

برای دستیابی به مزیت رقابتی در شرایط عدم‌­اطمینان که آن تغییر ضروری است، یکی از چالش‌های بزرگ سازمان‌ها کاهش ریسک طریق ایجاد زنجیره‌های تأمین تاب‌آور است. تاب‌آوری زنجیره ‌تأمین توانایی مقابله با اختلال اشاره دارد یک رویداد غیرقابل‌پیش‌بینی بوده و دارای منابع داخلی خارجی مختلفی ازجمله بلایای طبیعی ریسک‌های عملیاتی پژوهش حاضر شبیه‌سازی توسط نرم‌افزار ارنا زنجیره‌ سنگ ساختمانی «کارخانه سنگبری آسم...

A marked increase in case fatality has been observed among reported cases of invasive group B streptococcal infections (GBS) in infants younger than 90 days old (thereafter referred to as ‘infant’) in Norway since the beginning of 2006. Twenty four cases of GBS in infants were reported to the Norwegian communicable disease notification system (MSIS) between 1 January and 21 July, and eight case...