China’s elaborate system of local mediation committees has piqued researchers’ curiosity for decades and sparked an argument in these pages. Crucial questions— concerning how much mediation actually takes place, what kinds of disputes are mediated, who seeks mediation, and how successful it is—have gone unanswered for lack of data. This article addresses these issues using original surveys from...

INTRODUCTION Decentralization of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) for tuberculosis (TB) to the community (home-based DOT) has improved the coverage of TB treatment and reduced the burden to the health care facilities (facility-based DOT). We aimed to compare TB treatment outcomes in home-based and facility-based DOT under programmatic conditions in an urban setting with a high TB burden. MET...

Two new drugs-bedaquiline and delamanid-have recently been approved by stringent regulatory authorities to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and recommended by the World Health Organization for use under defined programmatic conditions. Introducing the medications in TB programs worldwide has not kept pace with the need for these drugs. In response, the DR-TB STAT (Drug-Resistant TB S...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. It usually spreads through the air and attacks low immune bodies. Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV) patients are more likely to be attacked with TB. It is an important health problem in India as well. Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis has always been a problem. Classification in medicine is an important tas...

Approach: When people or groups in conflict initiate a mediation process to try reach an agreement, painful and distressing feelings emerge. Mediation professionals facilitate promote understanding despite the suffering that arises along way. Previous research has confirmed impact of professional quality life self-care on successful task performance. This is pioneering study occupational field ...

The need for an accurate, rapid, simple and affordable point-of-care (POC) test for Tuberculosis (TB) that can be implemented in microscopy centers and other peripheral health-care settings in the TB-endemic countries remains unmet. This manuscript describes preliminary results of a new prototype rapid lateral flow TB test based on detection of antibodies to immunodominant epitopes (peptides) d...

Tuberculosis (TB) services in China are provided through a large network of TB dispensaries. Even though hospitals are not as well placed to follow recommended standards of TB care, a significant proportion of people with TB symptoms seek care from hospitals. In spite of having a policy and mandate in place, the Ministry of Health had little success in encouraging hospitals to refer suspected T...

The way knowledge is represented influences the effectiveness with which that knowledge can be shared and reconstructed. Of particular interest to this study is the hypertext knowledge representation. Based on the schema theory, we propose a model explaining the effect of the hypertext knowledge representation on the user’s problem solving performance. The sophistication of the knowledge struct...