The ninth annual report of the South African Renal Registry summarises December 2020 data on kidney replacement therapy (KRT) for patients with failure in Africa. numbers reported here are substantially lower than those recorded previous report. This is likely result several factors, including larger deaths from COVID-19 and other causes, delayed initiation KRT due to pandemic, challenges submi...

The use of Proximity Mobile Payment (PMP) applications with several advantages over traditional payment methods is becoming more common. While a large diffusion PMP already apparent in South Korea, Germany still lagging behind. study examines the acceptance factors regarding intention to mentioned countries understand this divergence. A research model was developed explain behavioral intention,...

Bacterium-platelet interactions at the cardiac valve surface represent an important initial step in the induction of infective endocarditis (IE). This cell-cell interaction may play either a protagonistic role in the induction of IE via bacterial adherence to and aggregation of platelets or an antagonistic role via secretion of platelet-derived microbicidal molecules. We examined the spectrum a...

AIMS Platelets participate in the pathogenesis of arterial thrombosis and it has been demonstrated that enhanced platelet activation occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Dyslipidaemia is a common feature of diabetes. We investigated the association between certain lipid fractions and plasma platelet-derived microparticle (PMP) levels in patients with type-2 DM. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

We investigate network coding (NC) in access point-to-multipoint (PMP) broadcast networks. Characterized by a shared unicast upstream channel and a time-shared broadcast downstream channel, PMP networks are widely deployed in optical and wireless access networks. We develop a queuing-theoretic model of NC at the medium access control (MAC) sublayer and analyze the impact of NC on packet delay. ...

IEEE 802.16 standard supports two different topologies: point to multipoint (PMP) and Mesh. In this paper, a QoS mechanism for point to multipoint of IEEE 802.16 and BS scheduler for PMP Mode is proposed. This paper also describes quality of service over WiMAX networks. Average WiMAX delay, Average WiMAX load and Average WiMAX throughput at base station is analyzed and compared by applying diff...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the status of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in the post-Soviet countries. We therefore investigated the epidemiology and treatment outcomes of RRT in Ukrainian patients and put the results into an international perspective. METHODS Data from the Ukrainian National Renal Registry for patients on RRT between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2012 were selected. W...

Chronic kidney disease is at least 3-4 times more frequent in Africa than in developed countries. Hypertension affects approximately 25% of the adult population and is the cause of chronic kidney failure in 21% of patients on renal replacement therapy in the South African Registry. The prevalence of diabetic nephropathy is estimated to be 14%-16% in South Africa, 23.8% in Zambia, 12.4% in Egypt...

One of the reasons for inadequate pain treatment in hospitalized patients is that nurses have insufficient knowledge about pain and pain management. To address this problem, a Pain Monitoring Program (PMP) for nurses was developed, implemented, and evaluated. The PMP consisted of two components: educating nurses about pain, pain assessment, and pain management, and implementing daily pain asses...