BACKGROUND The 19 Norwegian Emergency medical communication centres (EMCCs) use Norwegian Index for medical emergency assistance (Index) as dispatch guidelines. Little is known about the use of Index, nor its validity. We aimed to document the epidemiology of contacts made to the public emergency medical phone number and the operators' self-reported use of Index as a first step towards a valida...

background: adherence to prescribed therapeutic regimen is an important element of self-care behaviors in cardiac patients. awareness of disease may play an important role in patient adherence. thus, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between awareness of the disease and adherence to therapeutic regimen among cardiac patients admitted to selected hospitals in mashhad, iran. me...

Numerous Salmonella enterica food-borne illness outbreaks have been associated with contaminated vegetables, in particular sprouted seeds, and the incidence of reported contamination has steadily risen. In order to understand the physiology of S. enterica serovar Newport on plants, a screen was developed to identify transposon mutants that were defective in attachment to alfalfa sprouts. Twenty...

In this paper, we study the model theoretical aspects of Weakly Aggregative Modal Logic (WAML), which is a collection of disguised polyadic modal logics with n-ary modalities whose arguments are all the same. We give a van-Benthem-Rosen characterization theorem of WAML based on an intuitive notion of bisimulation, and show that WAML has Craig Interpolation.

Buckets are an aggregative, intelligent construct for publishing in digital libraries. The goal of research projects is to produce information. This information is often instantiated in several forms, differentiated by semantic types (report, software, video, datasets, etc.). A given semantic type can be further differentiated by syntactic representations as well (PostScript version, PDF versio...

background various aspects of adherence to hcv treatment such as frequency, risk factors as well as causes of non-adherence, and its real role in clinical and virological outcome of the infected patients have remained largely unknown. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate patients’ adherence to anti-hcv medications in iran. materials and methods from october 2010 to march 2011, socio-d...