BACKGROUND Complete blood count (CBC) and reticulocyte (Retics) are routine hematology tests useful for the differential diagnosis of anemia and other medical conditions. However, it has been presumed that they are not used as regular as they should be in medical practice in Addis Ababa hospitals. METHODS A hospital-based cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted during November-Dece...

Research has shown that Physical education (PE) and sports programmes, currently referred to as Movement activities in the lower primary Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) Kenya, impacts on physical, mental, social emotional growth of individuals. The programmes produce individuals who are competent, confident endowed with knowledge, skills attitudes for lifelong physical activity. To some exten...

We prove a new upper bound on the advantage of any adversary for distinguishing the encrypted CBC-MAC (EMAC) based on random permutations from a random function. Our proof uses techniques recently introduced in [BPR05], which again were inspired by [DGH04]. The bound we prove is tight — in the sense that it matches the advantage of known attacks up to a constant factor — for a wide range of the...

Education reform is necessary as it allows a country to periodically review, revise, and evaluate its education systems programs. Kenya recently adopted competency-based system, known competency-Based Curriculum(CBC). This approach students work at their own pace demonstrate mastery of the competencies required for chosen field study. However, previous studies on implementation stages CBC, part...

Chicken blastodermal cells (CBC) from Stage X embryos, which were isolated from newly laid, fertile, unincubated eggs, are pluripotent cells and can produce somatic and germline chimeras when injected into recipient stage X embryos. The CBC retain their pluripotential ability for up to 7 d in vitro. The molecular mechanisms that control proliferation and differentiation of CBC are largely unkno...

The CBC MAC is the customary way to make a message authentication code (MAC) from a block cipher. It is the subject of several standards, including [1, 5, 6]. It is well-known and well-understood. Given all this, it seems likely that the CBC MAC will be standardized as an AES mode of operation. In this note we suggest a nice version of the CBC MAC that one might select for this purpose. We reca...

We evaluated two commercial human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) Western blot (WB; immunoblot) kits, Cambridge Biotech Corp. (CBC) and Diagnostic Biotechnology Ltd. (DBL). Both methods employ HTLV type I (HTLV-I) viral lysate and rgp21. The DBL WB kit also distinguishes between HTLV-I and HTLV-II antibodies, using an HTLV-I-specific and an HTLV-II-specific recombinant. Fifty weakly reactive H...