OBJECTIVE To observe the role of Ramadan Specific Diabetes Education (RSDE) in the management of fasting patients with diabetes. METHODS This prospective study was carried out at out-patients department (OPD) of Baqai Institute of Diabetology & Endocrinology (BIDE), in 2012. Recruitment of patients started a month prior to Ramadan. Muslim patients with diabetes whether had their first or on f...

PURPOSE To compare the astigmatism, high order aberrations, and optical quality of the cornea after microincision (approximately 1.7 mm) versus small incision approximately 3.2 mm) cataract surgery at Eye Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. METHODS This prospective, randomized clinical study included microincision cataract surgery and small incision cataract surgery performed on 60 ...

Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been found to exhibit thought-disordered responses on unstructured psychological tests, but not on more structured tests. My study compared outpatients diagnosed with BPD to those who qualified for other personality disorders (OPD). Johnston and Holzman's (1979) Thought Disorder Index was applied to the Rorschach and Wechsler Adult Intell...

Web Service composition has become increasingly important with more and more Web Services developed and deployed on the Web. It requires a formal and clear representation for analysis, design, and implementation. The Business Process Execution Language for Web Service (BPEL4WS), which is an XML-based language, provides a good basis to describe Web Service composition. However, it still lacks a ...

The rapidly developing fields of Micro-Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) and micro optics require non contact and high precision measurements. Optical profilers are ideally suited for this. Monochromatic Phase Shifting Interferometry(PSI) can be used to measure slowly varying profiles and step height of less than half a wavelength. White light interferometry is used when large step height are to...

OBJECTIVES To describe hospital inpatient, emergency department (ED) and outpatient department (OPD) activity for patients in the year following their first emergency admission for heart failure (HF). To assess the proportion receiving specialist assessment within 2 weeks of hospital discharge, as now recommended by guidelines. DESIGN Observational study of national administrative data. SET...