BACKGROUND Strict glycaemic control in type 2 diabetic patients is recommended in a number of treatment protocols. However, although better glycaemic control prevents or postpones chronic diabetic complications, it remains uncertain how this affects quality of life in the short and long term. AIM To study the impact of insulin therapy on glycaemic control and quality of life in type 2 diabeti...

The Islamic finance industry has only been dominated with banking, Takaful, capital, and the money market, although, cooperative (I-Coop), which is a non-financial institution in most cases yet to be fully adopted contemporary Muslim societies. can development reform tool or social economic growth method, it used offer interest-free loans cover specific demands rural urban settings. main purpos...

We study a distributed decision-making problem in which multiple agents face the same multi-armed bandit (MAB), and each agent makes sequential choices among arms to maximize its own individual reward. The cooperate by sharing their estimates over fixed communication graph. consider an unconstrained reward model two or more can choose arm collect independent rewards. And we constrained that at ...

BACKGROUND Declining physical activity is associated with a rising burden of global disease. There is little evidence about effective ways to increase adherence to physical activity. Therefore, interventions are needed that produce sustained increases in adherence to physical activity and are cost-effective. The purpose is to assess the effectiveness of a primary care physical activity interven...

OBJECTIVES to assess the functioning and well-being of older patients presenting with congestive heart failure (CHF) using established generic health status measures-the short form 36 health survey (SF-36) and Dartmouth COOP charts. METHODS patients aged 60 or older with CHF were asked if they would take part. They were requested to complete interviewer-administered questionnaires before angi...

Irreversible magnetization reversal occurs either by coherent or incoherent spin rotation or by wall displacement. In electrodeposited Co-W, Co-Fe, and CooP 300--500-A. films, vibrating sample magnetometer hysteresis loop analyses indicate that magnetization reversal takes place by wall displacement. The formation and movement of domain walls has been put in evidence by Lorentz electron microsc...

BACKGROUND Inequitable gender-based power in relationships and intimate partner violence contribute to persistently high rates of HIV infection among South African women. We examined the effects of two group-based HIV prevention interventions that engaged men and their female partners together in a couples intervention (Couples Health CoOp [CHC]) and a gender-separate intervention (Men's Health...