BACKGROUND To study the clinical presentation of cervical carcinoma correlating with histopathological findings in a tertiary hospital situated in the southern part of India catering to rural and semi-urban populations MATERIALS AND METHODS 199 cases histopathologically diagnosed as cervical cancer over a period of one year were considered for the study. Clinical details of the patients were ...

Objectives: LEOPARD syndrome is a rare congenital disease that can manifest with cardiac anomalies, multiple lentigines, ocular hypertelorism, growth retardation, and deafness. The purpose of this case series was to review the most prominent comorbidities associated with LEOPARD syndrome, and describe perioperative outcomes in a series of patients undergoing anesthesia. Design: Retrospective ca...

BACKGROUND Improving the equitable benefit distribution of government health subsidies, particularly among the country's poorer socioeconomic groups, is a major goal of China's healthcare sector reform. METHODS Benefit incidence analysis was employed to measure the distribution of government health subsidies by income quintile. The concentration index (CI) of different levels of health care f...

Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage distribution during 1983-1993; however, it increased only in the uppe...

The aim of this paper is investigating the impacts of residents empowering in physical and environmental improvements in informal settlements. This place has some problems such as safety, health and environmental that Managers and municipal authorities should take action to fix them. In this regard The NGOs as an intermediary between the people and town officials could have a significant role i...

Due to the continuing reduction of funds, management must find ways to ensure quality operation of tertiary education institutions at an optimal cost. This objective can only be achieved by quality control of the educational process. Its requirements are part of the ISO 9001 standard. Among them is the mapping of educational processes for quality management system. A practical manual was create...

BACKGROUND Understanding viral etiology and age-specific incidence of acute respiratory infections in infants can help identify risk groups and inform vaccine delivery, but community-based data is lacking from tropical settings. METHODS One thousand four hundred and seventy-eight infants in urban Ho Chi Minh City and 981 infants in a semi-rural district in southern Vietnam were enrolled at bi...

Taking almost all cities in China(including Hong Kong and Macau) as the research object in the year 1990, 2000 and 2007, this article studies the urban spheres of influence by using gravity model. Based on overall grasp of the spatial pattern of Chinese urban spheres of influence, the spatial characteristics of urban agglomerations are paid close attention to. Urban agglomerations are national ...

The objective of this study was to investigate national surgical trends for distal radius fractures (DRFs) in Korea and analyze healthcare institution type-specific surgical trends. We analyzed a nationwide database acquired from the Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) from 2011 to 2015. International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes and procedur...

We investigate functorial relationships between the categories of theories in different institutions, namely adjunctions, as a means of translating between the different specification spaces that they provide. We show that there is a canonical way in which adjunctions between the categories of signatures can be lifted to the categories of theories. This lifting is associated with a duality betw...