BACKGROUND To prevent medical accidents, users must be informed of the cautions written in medical package inserts. To realize countermeasures by utilizing information systems, we must also implement a drug information database. However, this is not easy to develop, since the descriptions in package inserts are too complex and their information poorly structured. It is necessary to analyze pack...

BACKGROUND A fundamental debate in the transition towards universal health coverage concerns whether to establish an explicit health benefits package to which all citizens are entitled, and the level of detail in which to specify that package. At one extreme, the treatments to be funded, and the circumstances in which patients qualify for the treatment, might be specified in great detail, and b...

Internet traffic destined for unused or unreachable addresses provides critically important information on malicious and misconfigured activity. Since Internet address allocation and policy information is distributed across many devices, applications, and administrative domains, constructing a comprehensive map of unused and unreachable (“dark”) addresses is challenging. In this paper, we prese...

Globally, the annual number of new infections among children (0-14 years) has almost halved since 2010 with a 47% reduction in new HIV cases.1 Since 1995, an estimated 1.6 million new HIV infections among children have been averted due to the provision of antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) to women living with HIV during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The vast majority of these infections (1.3 milli...

The current standards for meeting drug information (DI) requirements in American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)-accredited pharmacy practice residency (PPR) programs and the impact of changes in ASHP standards for the DI requirements were studied. In September 2002 a nine-question survey was e-mailed to the directors of all ASHP-accredited PPR programs listed with an available e-ma...

The selection of medicines is a skilled process that produces an essential medicines list (EML) and substantiates rational management of pharmaceutical services. This paper presents the selection of essential medicines in Brazilian states and municipalities. It discusses the perception of pharmaceutical services managers regarding the concept of essential medicines and strategies adopted for th...

Drug information (DI) services is an essential resource for pharmacists to provide counseling to patients and guide appropriate medication use. We devised a DI practical training course that incorporated an inquiry-based practical training program and evaluated its effectiveness. A total of 91 fifth-year students in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Fukuoka University took part in the following DI ses...

ReGTime 1 (Rent Gigaaops someTimes) is a software package that helps to rent unused computing power. Sites ooer unused resources on a \computing power market". Customers specify their requirements using World Wide Web. ReGTime creates an ooer based on available capacities. If the ooer is accepted, ReGTime helps to establish a contract, organizes the access, observes the compliance with the cont...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract When unlicensed users need to use the licensed spectrum, it is necessary to detect the unused frequency bands called white spaces. Cognitive radio can be used to do this particular task by dynamic spectrum sensing. This paper explains about detecti...

Abstract For the unlicensed users to use the licensed spectrum, unused frequency bands called white spaces need to be detected. Cognitive radio does this task by dynamic spectrum access. This requires intelligent spectrum sensing techniques. In this paper such unused spectrum for OFDM WLAN (IEEE 802.11a) is predicted by exploring the signals presence in minimum time using matched filter based d...