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BACKGROUND Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance (AFP) is an essential strategy of the WHO's Polio Eradication Initiative. This is the first study conducted to estimate the incidence, etiology, distribution, and surveillance performance of AFP in Iraq. METHODS Surveillance data about the AFP cases under the age of 15 years reported from Iraq during January 1997 to December 2011 were depended i...

An exploratory survey design was used to assess satisfaction with antenatal care over a two-month period of women giving birth in an inner Sydney teaching hospital. Patients received obstetric services from private obstetricians, midwives, the hospital outpatient clinic, or 'shared care' between general practitioners and the outpatient clinic or birth centre. Insurance status and demographic in...

Cooperative editing applications enable geographically distributed users to concurrently edit a shared document space over a computer network. These applications present several technical challenges related to the scalability of the system and the promptness with which relevant updates are disseminated to the concerned users. This paper presents Cooperative Semantic Locality Awareness (CoopSLA)...

Previous evidence showed that, due to refocusing of static dephasing effects around large vessels, spin-echo (SE) BOLD signals offer an increased linearity and promptness with respect to gradient-echo (GE) acquisition, even at low field. These characteristics suggest that, despite the reduced sensitivity, SE fMRI might also provide a potential benefit when investigating spontaneous fluctuations...

The government of Ghana and key stakeholders have put into place several interventions aimed at reducing maternal deaths. At the institutional level, the conduct of maternal deaths audit has been instituted. This also contributes to reducing maternal deaths as shortcomings that may have contributed to such deaths could be identified to inform best practice and forestall such occurrences in the ...

The aim of this study was to identify prevalence and factors associated with use of public health services by adult males residing in the city of Maringá, Paraná. A household survey was carried out with 410 men aged 20 to 59 years old. Analysis was performed by means of descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression models. The prevalence of use of public services stood at 56.3%. Men w...

Our research focuses on web information management for people who want to monitor and use the World Wide Web (WWW) information, as their information resource. Web information is mainly open to the public and search engines are widely used, although there are complaints about the large amount of irrelevant information. Some web technology research focuses on promptness of changed information and...