In 1981, a profound crisis of authority was transforming the American health polity. Changing priorities between infectious and chronic diseases, communal and individual responsibilities for health, and comprehensive services and cost control created a fragmented health polity, leaderless and ill-equipped to address the AIDS epidemic. The American health polity may best serve the public interes...

Introduction: Cryopreservation of semen is routinely used in a variety of circumstances including before assisted reproduction treatments, pre- radiation or chemotherapy treatment and etc. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and Glutathione supplemented cryopreservation medium on sperm parameters and amount of DNA fragmentation during the freeze-tha...

this research has studied and ranked the service quality and its relation with customers' satisfaction in a bank in iran. in the theoretical principles section, the concepts and denitions related to services, satisfaction, banking and research background have been studied. the statistical community of the study was all the bank customers that have referred to the bankand have had interest...

results the findings of this study showed that in most selected countries, primary care services were provided by the private sector and the public sector has been mostly functioning as a supervisor in this area, but in iran, primary care services were provided by the government. the findings of this study also showed that hospital services in iran and selected countries (second and third level...

conclusions in our study, no prominent effect was seen; therefore, in order to have a better perspective of crocin activity against cancerous cell lines, further studies are highly recommended. results the highest concentration of crocin significantly decreased ros production after 48 hours of treatment. however, crocin had no effect on the expression level of hsp (heat shock protein). addition...

mycophenolic acid (mpa) is the active metabolite of mycophenolate mofetil. this study designed to investigate the mechanism of cytotoxicity of mpa on the genetically engineered pc12 tet off (pto) neuronal cells with p53 gene. alamar blue (ab) reduction showed concentration-dependent cytotoxicity of mpa on pto cells with ic50 value of 32.32 ± 4.61 mm. the reactive oxygen species (ros) generation...

Multimedia elements add value to text documents by transmitting information difficult to express in words. In healthcare, many professional and services keep this elements in their own repositories. This brings the problem of information fragmentation in different silos which hinder its access to other healthcare professionals. On the other hand patients have clinical data of their own in diffe...

Optimizing wireless bandwidth utilization is one of the numerous challenges in wireless IP multimedia systems design. This paper describes and evaluates the performance of a novel Application Level Framing protocol for efficient transmission of H.264 video over error-prone wireless IP links. The proposed ALF protocol introduces an innovative loss spreading scheme for video streaming services wh...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

varicocele is one of the most common causes of primary male infertility. pilea microphylla (pm) is being used as folk medicine. this study was aimed to investigate the effects of pm in a rat model of varicocele. a total of 30 male wistar rats were divided into control, sham, varicocele, accessory varicocele and pm-treated groups. after 10 weeks of varicocele induction, sperm parameters and chro...