The fight against malaria is currently ongoing in many countries where the disease is still endemic. The overall target is to eliminate malaria in all nations, regardless of their malaria burden, by 2030. Currently, the disease has been eliminated mainly in low-burden and unstable malaria areas globally. However, in high-burden countries, particularly in Africa, the disease is still not elimina...

In India, the shrimp culture today has industrialized into an improved farming system and is evolved day by day into a well talented for the management. Present work was carried out in the shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei culture in Sattanathar aqua farm in the east coast of Nagai District, Tamil Nadu, India from April 2015 to August 2015. Water quality parameters for the entire culture ponds was pr...

Background Self-perceived health, a subjective assessment of one's health condition, is an important health indicator at the level of quality of life. In this study, working time quality refer to job factors with qualitative aspects of working time. This study was conducted to investigate the association between working time quality and self-perceived health in paid workers in Korea. Methods ...

Psychological self-assessments and heart rate variability analysis are popular methods of estimating subject’s mental load and his/her load on the autonomic nervous system, thus the level of mental stress. The aim of the study was to test a recent heart rate variability analysis method against self-assessments. Long-term measurements carried out in everyday life ensured a sufficient amount data...

The important part played by intestinal worms in the causation and modification of disease does not appear to me to be generally appreciated. I was first induced to turn my attention to the subject wlien treating a bad case of remittent fever in the bazaar. Quinine had been administered with very little effect, and the patient still continued to have fever, and was gradually but surely sinking....

We study an algorithmic problem that is motivated by ink minimization for sparse set visualizations. Our input is a set of points in the plane which are either blue, red, or purple. Blue points belong exclusively to the blue set, red points belong exclusively to the red set, and purple points belong to both sets. A red-blue-purple spanning graph (RBP spanning graph) is a set of edges connecting...

OBJECTIVES Fatigue is a prominent symptom in many rheumatic diseases and has a substantial impact on many outcomes. In previous research, fatigue has been linked with poor sleep and discomfort, including joint pain and sicca symptoms. The aim of the present study was to investigate prospectively the daily variations in fatigue and the roles of discomfort and adequacy of sleep the previous night...

BACKGROUND To investigate characteristics of and satisfaction with psychiatric 24-hour emergency primary care performed by mandatory rotation of licensed psychiatrists as a viable baseline for possible reorganizational measures. METHODS This was a questionnaire-based cross-sectional study (November 2010-April 2011). The number of patient-psychiatrist encounters, modes of contact, and patient ...

of the ways in which the schools are receiving outside aid. The further one reads on, however, the more one is struck with the sense that it is the children who are doing the helping, and it is their parents, neighbors, town officials, and cooperating organizations who are being helped to a fuller social consciousness, to a keener interest in good government and the common welfare. For wherever...

Objectives: This study extends the field of retirement and health by examining the impacts of daily stressors on morning cortisol levels in 253 retirees between 55 and 75 years of age (M = 66.80, SD = 4.96) and the moderating roles of age and gender. Method: Participants derived from the second wave of the Daily Diary Study portion of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United Sta...