Over the last two decades there has been growing interest in the potential of Social Health Insurance (SHI) as a health care financing mechanism in low- and middle-income countries. SHI schemes exist in many countries of Latin America and have also been introduced across Asia in recent years. However, few countries in Africa have implemented SHI. Despite the sustained interest in SHI, there are...

In adults, calculation of left ventricular mass (LVM) has been shown to give higher values when based on M-mode measurements obtained by the second-harmonic imaging (SHI) technique than with the older fundamental imaging (FI) technique. No information is available in paediatric subjects. This study, therefore, compares LVM calculated from measurements obtained with SHI and FI in 14 children, ag...

BACKGROUND The introduction of new vaccines for young children requires instruments for a rapid and timely assessment of the progressively increasing vaccination coverage. We assessed whether routine data generated by statutory health insurances (SHI) might be used to monitor vaccination coverage in young children. METHODS For 90% of the population Germany's healthcare system is premium-funde...

shi (for short internodes), a semidominant dwarfing mutation of Arabidopsis caused by a transposon insertion, confers a phenotype typical of mutants defective in the biosynthesis of gibberellin (GA). However, the application of GA does not correct the dwarf phenotype of shi plants, suggesting that shi is defective in the perception of or in the response to GA. In agreement with this observation...

Na+,K+ ATPase and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) were studied by immunocytochemistry on paraffin sections of the spinal cord, optic nerve and trigeminal ganglion of adult control (+/+) and CNS myelin-deficient shiverer (shi/shi) mice. Immunostaining for Na+, K+-ATPase outlined the periphery of nerve fibers in the spinal cord white matter, optic nerve and trigeminal ganglion of +/+ and shi...

Richard Stanley suggested the problem of finding the characteristic polynomial of a certain hyperplane arrangement defined by xi + xj = 0, 1, which is called the Shi threshold arrangement. We present the answer of the problem, using the finite field method.

This paper investigates a Description Logic, namely SHI+, which extends SHI by adding transitive closure of roles. The resulting logic SHI+ allows transitive closure of roles to occur not only in concept inclusion axioms but also in role inclusion axioms. We show that SHI+ is decidable by devising a terminating, sound and complete algorithm for deciding satisfiability of concepts in SHI+ with r...