Several cases of Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are seen in our working environment and this condition can have substantial impact on fetal growth, birth weight and morbidity. Standard recommendations for GDM testing prescribe the use of either a 3-hour, 100g glucose load (100g) or a 2-hour 75g glucose load (75g). We investigated the comparability of the 75g and the 100g tests in the diagn...

background: research about teaching methods and students' education is an important subject which can improve the quality of education. this study was performed to compare three educational methods: teaching through lecture, presentation by small group of students, student's search and study of topics before the class. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 42 student...

BACKGROUND HIV-infected children in sub-Saharan Africa may be at a high risk of staying on a failing first-line regimen and developing drug-resistance HIV variants due to lack of routine viral load monitoring. We investigated whether cumulative viral load, measured as viremia copy-years (VCY) could predict morbidity in a setting where viral load is not routinely monitored. METHODS This was a ...

Much of prior work in the area of service operations management has assumed service rates to be exogenous to the level of load on the system. Using operational data from patient transport services and cardiothoracic surgery two vastly di¤erent healthcare delivery services we show that the processing speed of service workers is in‡uenced by the system load. We …nd that workers accelerate the ser...

A wide variety of cellular processes use molecular motors, including processive motors that move along some form of track (e.g., myosin with actin, kinesin or dynein with tubulin) and polymerases that move along a template (e.g., DNA and RNA polymerases, ribosomes). In trying to understand how these molecular motors actually move, many apply their understanding of how man-made motors work: the ...

In order to simulate tsunamis, the Chair of Scientific Computing of the TUM developed the Shallow Water Equations Teaching Code, which uses an augmented Riemann solver, amongst others. A characteristic of the augmented Riemann solver is its varying processing time, which depends on its input parameters like the water height or the bathymetry. Due to this variation, when the simulation is calcul...