Background: To date, 36 years has passed since the beginning of measles vaccination; the disease is still circulating around the world, threatening lives of human beings especially in developing countries.  In recent years, we have confronted measles in previously vaccinated adults from all over the country. Objective: To find out if there is a need for changing our routine measles vaccination ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using a 4-hours-on-duty and 2-hours-off-duty schedule in the operation of advanced aerospace systems. Two B-52 combat-ready crews were confined for 15 days in a simulated advanced system crew compartment and were tested with a battery of five performance tasks and four psychophysiological measures. Data obtained during two 15-day t...

A nurse rostering problem is an NP-Hard that difficult to solve during the complexity of problem. Since good scheduling schedule fulfilled hard constraint and minimizes violation soft constraint, a lot approaches implemented improve quality schedule. This research proposed improvement on ant colony optimization with semi-random initialization for problems. Semi-random applied avoid then will be...

Most of the GA approaches for job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) represent a solution by a chromosome containing the sequence of all the operations and decode the chromosome to a real schedule from the first gene to the last gene. There are two common problems for this kind of GAs, namely, high redundancy at the tail of the chromosome and little significance of rear genes on the overall schedul...

Perhaps it is unacademic to start with the word “perhaps.” Doing so implies uncertainty, a “mortal sin” for academia that demands precision and decisive action.The however, real. Ac...

Background/aim S-1, a 5-fluorouracil(5-FU) oral anti-cancer drug, has been traditionally used with schedule of 4-week administration followed by 2-week rest for breast cancer treatment. We, herein, aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy and safety 1-week patients metastatic cancer. Patients methods We enrolled HER2-negative who had not received prior chemotherapy. S-1 was administered conse...

Measurement of Disability is one of the off-shoot projects of the major multicentred study on 'Factors Affecting Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia' being held at Madras, Vellore and Lucknow. As part of this study, modification of the Disability Assessment Schedule (II) was carried out at the Madras centre. Certain items of the DAS were deleted and the rest were regrouped into 4 main areas of ...

Wheel-running and other non-photic stimuli influence the rest-activity pattern of diurnal and nocturnal mammals. A day to night inversion of phase preference of activity was described among Octodon degus, when exposed to ad-libitum wheel running. We have studied the rest-activity pattern response in presence of ad libitum wheel-running in wild-captured male individuals from two species of genus...

Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSDs) arise when an individual's sleep-wake rhythm mismatches the environmental 24-h schedule. Physiological data and genetic studies in patients with CRSDs suggest that these disorders result from abnormal functioning of the circadian timing system. Diagnosis involves recognition of the characteristics of CRSDs, which can be achieved by clinical interview and...