BACKGROUND Although multimorbidity has important implications for patient care in general practice, limited research has examined chronic illness and health service utilisation among problem drug users. This study aimed to determine chronic illness prevalence and health service utilisation among problem drug users attending primary care for methadone treatment, to compare these rates with match...

Space allocation is an important issue in the university sector [1]. Frequently, the utilisation of the estate is calculated as the product of the frequency of use of individual rooms and the associated occupancy at a particular time. Then, poorly utilised estate results in significant over expenditure on both capital and operational budgets across the sector. The Higher Education Funding Counc...

Introduction. Comparative cross national (CNC) drug utilization studies are challenging. However, there can be concerns with the accuracy and robustness of the data collected with previous studies showing differences in utilisation rates between different databases. In addition, if utilisation rates vary appreciably between countries with no logical explanation. These studies have been carried ...

Many industrial fermentations use complex medium containing both carbohydrate and oils as their carbon sources. Oil supplements have been shown to increase the antibiotic titre and are a cheaper alternative carbon source, in terms of carbon per unit volume, when compared to carbohydrates. Oil supplements are also preferred on an energy supply basis and have natural antifoam properties. The majo...

apres avoir presente l'origine, ie spectre de rayonnement et la totalite' de l'energie solaire arrivant sur la terre, nous citons tout d'abord les methodes et moyens d'utilisation de l'energie solaire dans ie passe(. nous presentons ensuite, les capteurs plans, concentration lineaire et ponctuelle; les moteurs et centrales solaires. puis nous discutons des generate...

BACKGROUND To assess the scope, volume and quality of research on the acceptability, utilisation and effectiveness of telephone- and computer-delivered interventions for caregivers of people living with dementia. METHODS Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane databases were searched (Jan 1990 - Dec 2016). Eligible papers were classified as data-based descriptive, measurement or intervention stu...

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder affecting carbohydrate, fat and protein metabolism that affects nearly 10% of the population every year. The treatment of diabetes mellitus has been confined to use of oral hypoglycemic agents and insulin, the former being reported to possess serious side effects. This leads to increasing demand for herbal products with antidiabetic factor with little s...