BACKGROUND The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, include a comprehensive health goal, "to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages." The health goal (SDG 3) has nine substantive targets and four additional targets which are identified as a means of implementation. One of these commitments, to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), has been ac...

BACKGROUND An essential element of mental health service scale up relates to an assessment of resource requirements and cost implications. AIMS To assess the expected resource needs of scaling up services in five districts in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia. METHOD The resource quantities associated with each site's specified care package were identified and subsequently costed, both at c...

Since 2008, annual surveys of influenza vaccination policies, practices and coverage have been undertaken in 29 European Union (EU)/ European Economic Area (EEA) countries. After 2009, this monitored the impact of European Council recommendation to increase vaccination coverage to 75% among risk groups. This paper summarises the results of three seasonal influenza seasons: 2008/09, 2009/10 and ...

Due to glioblastoma's infiltrative nature, an optimal radiation therapy (RT) plan requires targeting infiltration not identified by anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Here, high-resolution, whole-brain spectroscopic MRI (sMRI) is used to describe tumor infiltration alongside anatomical MRI and simulate the degree to which it modifies RT target planning. In 11 patients with glioblastom...

BACKGROUND AND AIM To assess the effectiveness of the potential advantages with 3-dimensional-based treatment planning versus 2-dimensional pelvic bone-based treatment planning in patients with rectal cancer, controlled for clinical stage. METHODS AND MATERIALS Areas at risk from computed tomography in 30 patients were delineated: mesorectum, presacral, internal iliac, obturator and external ...

Autonomous exploration and search have important applications in robotics. One interesting application is cooperative control of mobile robotic/sensor networks to achieve uniform coverage of a domain. Ergodic coverage is one solution for this problem in which control laws for the agents are derived so that the agents uniformly cover a target area while maintaining coordination with each other. ...

The paper proposes a deterministic node deployment method based on grid scan to achieve targets coverage and nodes connectivity. Target area is divided into girds from which the most suitable one is selected to place the next node. In the coverage phase, the grid where the sensor node can sense the most targets and have the best coverage level is selected to place the next sensor node. To make ...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recommends at least 3 annual antibiotic mass drug administrations (MDA) where the prevalence of trachoma is > 10% in children ages 1-9 years, with coverage at least at 80%. However, the additional value of higher coverage targeted at children with multiple rounds is unknown. TRIAL DESIGN 2 × 2 factorial community randomized, double blind, trial. TRIA...