BACKGROUND In the past few decades many countries have worked to increase the number of women delivering in facilities, with the goal of improving maternal and neonatal health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to explore the current situation of facility deliveries in Africa and Asia to understand where and with whom women deliver. Furthermore, we aim to test potential drivers of facility ...

The CORBA Event Service provides a exible model for asynchronous communication among objects. However, the standard CORBA Event Service speciication lacks important features required by real-time applications. For instance, operational ight programs for ghter aircraft have complex real-time processing requirements. This paper describes the design and performance of an object-oriented, real-time...

Viruses are probably the most common cause of infectious disease acquired within indoor environments and have considerable impact on human health, ranging from severe life-threatening illnesses to relatively mild and self-limiting or asymptomatic diseases. In particular, viruses causing gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases spread rapidly in the community and cause considerable morbidity. I...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Irrational use of antimicrobials is a key factor behind rapidly spreading antimicrobial resistance in microorganisms. This study was undertaken to determine the rate and pattern of antimicrobial prescribing in patients with uncomplicated acute respiratory infections, fever and diarrhoea attending a few rural and urban health settings. METHODS The study was done in prim...

Understanding the Challenge Nuclear facilities responsible for power generation, enrichment and storage are complex computing environments comprised of hundreds to thousands of individual devices. Those devices, and the computer systems that manage them, are built from a combination of common, off‐the‐shelf computing technologies and custom, one‐of‐a‐kind hardware, software and networking proto...

A survey of commercial broiler processing facilities across the US was conducted to determine overall water use. Seventy-two percent of the respondents reported using city water to process broilers, and 66% reported discharging to city sewers. Over 41% of the responses were from facilities located in the Southeast; however, there was no relationship between location (region of US) of facility a...

OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the capacity to provide cesarean delivery (CD) in health facilities in low- and middle-income countries. STUDY DESIGN We conducted secondary analysis of 719 health facilities, in 26 countries in Africa, the Pacific, Asia, and the Mediterranean, using facility-based cross-sectional data from the World Health Organization Situational Analysis Tool to Assess Emergen...

In this preliminary report, we show how action planning is realized by using LOD datasets, e.g., Linked Geo Data, DBpedia, WordNet, etc. To make a recommendation for car drivers and passengers, we combine these existing open datasets with newly constructed ontologies of facilities and services. We develop the inference procedure to translate user requests into SPARQL queries to obtain a recomme...

In this preliminary report, we show how we can realize action planning by using open knowledge-bases and LOD like Linked Geo Data, DBpedia, and WordNet, etc. To make a recommendation for car drivers and passengers, we combine these open datasets by newly constructed ontologies of facilities and services. Then we develop the inference procedure to translate user requests into SPARQL queries to o...

BACKGROUND Shared facilities are not recognised as improved sanitation due to challenges of maintenance as they easily can be avenues for the spread of diseases. Thus there is need to evaluate the quality of shared facilities, especially in informal settlements, where they are commonly used. A shared facility can be equated to a common good whose management depends on the users. If users do not...