INTRODUCTION The objective of this study is to explore the associations between national tuberculosis program (NTP) budget allocation and tuberculosis related outcomes in the World Health Organization's 22 high burden countries from 2007-2009. METHODS This ecological study used mixed effects and generalized estimating equation models to identify independent associations between NTP budget all...

Rhinoplasty is one of the most complicated aesthetic surgeries. One important factor in nasal profile analysis before surgery is the NTP (Nasal Tip Projection). There has been controversy over defining the best tip projection and due to cultural differences there is a need to find the best formulation for Iranian noses. We selected 50 randomized patients. Lateral nasal views were captured from ...

Afghanistan has 2 tuberculosis surveillance systems, the National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) and the Health Management Information System (HMIS). An evaluation of these surveillance systems in January/ February 2010 was done to identify their strengths and weaknesses and to formulate recommendations. Attributes of the programmes were evaluated using US Centers for Disease Control and ...

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) established the NTP Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction (CERHR) in June 1998. The purpose of the Center is to provide timely, unbiased, scientifically sound evaluations of human and experimental evidence for adverse effects on reproduction, including development, caused...

In this paper, we research on constructing an explicit parametric curve to be taken as the limitation curve of Progressive Iteration Approximation (PIA) which can interpolate some scattered data points by using normalized totally positive (NTP) basis. We prove that when the data points and corresponding parameter list are given, the limitation curve has the unique explicit expression. There is ...

Trichloroethylene (TCE) removal was investigated in a post-plasma catalysis (PPC) configuration nearly dry air (RH = 0.7%) and moist 15%), using, for non-thermal plasma (NTP), 10-pin-to-plate negative DC corona discharge and, PPC, Ce0.01Mn as catalyst, calcined at 400 °C (Ce0.01Mn-400) or treated with nitric acid (Ce0.01Mn-AT). One of the key points to take advantage ozone emitted from NTP pote...

Excessive use and indiscriminate discharge of antibiotics inevitably lead to their accumulation in the environment, posing significant ecological physiological risks. Non-thermal plasma (NTP) is receiving increasing attention as a sustainable technology for efficient breakdown these well other contaminants. However, implementation NTP still faces several hurdles, particularly maximization react...