conclusions the study showed that preparation package was effective in decreasing sbp and dbp, as well as heart rate. therefore, using multimodal comprehensive preparation packages, such as the package used in the present report, is suggested. results from the total number of 66 patients, the 63.3% were male and married. no significant differences were observed between the mean of sbp and dbp a...

Reverse Engineering software packages are not able to automatically and robustly detect the sub-regions of a tessellated model; it generally results in a first trial subdivision which subsequently has to be refined, requiring a large amount of human intervention and high computational effort. To avoid these limitations, the authors propose a multilevel local approach for the automatic identific...

Globally, cholera epidemics continue to challenge disease control. Although mass campaigns covering large populations are commonly used control cholera, spatial targeting of case households and their radius is emerging as a potentially efficient strategy. We did Scoping Review investigate the effectiveness interventions delivered through case-area targeted intervention, its optimal spatiotempor...

Here we describe Pelendur, a system for the management of common system operation tasks. Specifically, Pelendur focuses on the management of user accounts and related information (such as groups) across platforms and even for particular software packages (like databases) that require user authentication. Pelendur has reduced the massive process of deleting expired accounts and creating new acco...

Within the last decade data on the burden of mental disorders worldwide demonstrates that it is a major public health problem affecting persons, their significant others and society more broadly. It has been estimated that globally one in four people will be affected by a mental disorder. Evidence is growing that these disorders can be effectively treated with both psychosocial counselling and ...

R offers several extension packages that allow it to perform parallel computations. These operate on fixed points in the program flow and make it difficult to deal with nested parallelism and to organize parallelism in complex computations in general. In this article we discuss, first, of how to detect parallelism in functions, and second, how to minimize user intervention in that process. We p...

• Dependencies: Software packages may need other software packages to run, and often they don't tell exactly what other packages they need but leave a large room for choice. Also, some software packages cannot be installed at the same time. This makes the job of tools that automatically download required software packages difficult. Distribution maintainers want to make sure that there is alway...

OBJECTIVE Assess impact of nationwide home health quality improvement campaign to reduce acute care hospitalization of home health recipients. DESIGN Observational pre-post comparison of self-selected participating and non-participating agencies' quality performance; survey to determine uptake of program materials. SETTING US home health care agencies. PARTICIPANTS A total of 147 agencies...

A total of 57 clam packages that were collected from supermarkets and fish markets from 11 different sites in western Japan between 8 December 2005 and 6 September 2006 were examined for human enteric viruses (i.e., norovirus, Aichi virus, rotavirus, adenovirus, hepatitis A virus, and astrovirus), using PCR and reverse transcription PCR. Sixty-one percent of the packages were contaminated with ...