Abstract This study assessed the effects of COVID-19 on Ghana's WASH system. It focused low-income households and sector stakeholders using Ayawaso East Municipality as a case to document lessons from pandemic's impact sector. We used water sanitation system approach understand mitigation measures Data were collected through surveys, stakeholder engagements, analysis. found that government's re...

automatic thoughts The self-critical or exaggerated negative self-statements that go through a person’s mind and are accepted as true by the person without testing their accuracy. cognitive restructuring A treatment technique that attempts to identify and modify negative or unrealistic thoughts or attributions. cognitive triad A person’s view of himor herself, of the world, and the future, whic...

This paper describes a new technique for measuring Web client request patterns and analyzes a large client trace collected using the new method. In this approach a modified proxy intercepts requests and serves all responses to clients marked uncacheable, effectively disabling browser caches and allowing the proxy to record requests that would otherwise result in silent browser cache hits. WebTV...

Layered clustering allows unmodified distributed file systems to enjoy many of the benefits of cluster-based file services. By interposing between clients and servers, layered clustering requires no changes to clients, servers, or the client-server protocol. Cuckoo demonstrates one particular use of layered clustering: spreading load among a set of otherwise independent NFS servers. Specificall...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the use of four different qualitative methods in creating content, including text and graphic design for print interventions to support better nutrition in low-income households that rely on charitable pantries. DESIGN Four methods were used for measuring household cooks' responses to the content and design of recipes and food-use tips especially designed for low-inco...

background: to determine if the glidescope® videolaryngoscope (gvl) could attenuate the hemodynamic responses to orotracheal intubation compared with conventional macintosh laryngoscope. objectives: the aim of this relatively large randomized trial was to compare the hemodynamic stress responses during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation using gvl versus mcl amongst healthy adult individuals r...

Abstract The realization of human rights standards depends in part on the commitment local actors. It can be argued that public service professionals such as social workers also regarded key players. possible role becomes imperative if these are working a policy context is not congruent with rights. If existing laws or policies cause maintain disrespect for rights, position to observe this havi...