BACKGROUND To evaluate a skilled birth attendant (SBA) training program in a neglected population on the Thai-Myanmar border, we used multiple methods to show that refugee and migrant health workers can be given effective training in their own environment to become SBAs and teachers of SBAs. The loss of SBAs through resettlement to third countries necessitated urgent training of available worke...

The Sensititre Breakpoint Autoreader system (SBAS) is a broth microdilution method with one to three concentrations of each antibiotic and innovative fluorescence technology to define inhibitory endpoints. We tested 248 gram-negative bacilli and 80 gram-positive cocci using both the rapid (5 h) and overnight (18 h) SBAS procedures. Inhibitory endpoints were also determined by visual inspection ...

Open-world software represents a new class of software, which exhibits new features that often demand for rethinking and extending the traditional methodologies and the accompanying methods and techniques. Open-world systems are built by composing heterogeneous, third-party components, whose behavior and interactions cannot be fully controlled or predicted; moreover, the environment they intera...

The emergence of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm enabled software architects to efficiently design applications based on the composition of loosely coupled services. However, maintaining such Service-Based Applications (SBAs) over time still poses several challenges. SBAs are expected to successfully perform business tasks in changing environments. Unexpected problems need to b...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization's recommended package of interventions for the integrated management of pregnancy and childbirth provides guidance for the use of evidence-based interventions to ensure the best outcomes for mother and newborn. However, the extent to which skilled birth attendants (SBAs) follow evidence-based guidelines is not known. There are few studies into childbirth...

Short bronchial segments obtained by pneumonectomy were implanted, 9-12 per dog, in the subcutaneous tissues of the back of seven dogs. These subcutaneous bronchial autografts (SBA) became vascularized, and they contained viable, histologically normal respiratory epithelium 4 wk after implantation. From 1-3 mo after implantation, 10% methylcholanthrene in steroid suspension medium was instilled...

Real-time single frequency precise point positioning (PPP) is a promising technique for high-precision navigation with sub-meter or even centimeter-level accuracy because of its convenience and low cost. The navigation performance of single frequency PPP heavily depends on the real-time availability and quality of correction products for satellite orbits and satellite clocks. Satellite-based au...

This paper describes the application of Space Based Augmentation System (SBAS) corrections and error bounds to improve the availability of Ground Based Augmentation Systems (GBAS). GBAS installations within good SBAS coverage can use the SBAS UDRE and GIVE error bounds to mitigate the most severe integrity threats to GBAS. GBAS systems are limited by their inability to detect severe ionospheric...

Cloud computing is becoming a popular platform to deliver service-based applications (SBAs) based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles. Monitoring the performance and functionality of SBAs deployed on multiple Cloud providers (in what is also known as Multi-Cloud setups) and adapting them to variations/events produced by several layers (infrastructure, platform, application, servic...