The emergence of drug resistance in leprosy is a major hurdle in leprosy elimination programme. Although the problem of drug resistance is presently not acute, it is important that we collect data more systematically and monitor the trend carefully so that effective measures to combat this problem can be developed. The present study aimed at the explication of cross resistance of rifabutin and ...

ABET 2000 requires new approaches to quality control and continuous improvement in engineering programs. It is instructive to analyze this control in terms familiar to the engineering community and to consider the implications for classroom and program level practices. A common approach to program assessment is to monitor student and graduate success statistically. This is analogous to using st...

SUMMARY In this paper we describe a software subsystem that can be added to each of a set of physically interconnected UNIX or UNIX look-alike systems, so as to construct a distributed system which is functionally indistinguishable at both the user and the program level from a conventional single-processor UNIX system. The techniques used are applicable to a variety and multiplicity of both loc...

Two design rules which aid the construction of distributed computing systems and the provision of fault tolerance are described, namely that: (i) a distributed computing system should be functionally equivalent to the individual computing systems of which it is composed, and (ii) fault tolerant systems should be constructed from generalised fault tolerant components. The reasoning behind these ...

For the development of eficient parallel applications, fast but reliable performance predictions are essential. Many existing modelling formalisms are either not directly suited to model parallel applications, or too expensive. This paper describes several extensions and improvements to a previously introduced methodology, based on an extension of queueing networks. The set of machine model bui...

A major debate in the international marketing literature deals with the globalization of markets and the extent to which a company’s international marketing strategy can be standardized (Buzzell, 1968; Cavusgil et al., 1993; Douglas and Wind, 1987; Hill and Still, 1984; Jain, 1989; Levitt, 1983; Sorenson and Wiechmann, 1975). Significant progress has been made with respect to the extent to whic...