INTRODUCTION The provision of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV infection is a key strategy in addressing the high burden of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and improving the quality and length of life for those infected. Information produced from routine monitoring is essential for evidence-based decision-making within ART programmes. An evaluation of the ART programme data system in Eastern Cap...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

background: polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) is a common cause of ovulatory disorders and infertility with high lh to fsh ratio. in order to prevent further increase of lh and follicle atresia, different regimens for ovulation induction have been recommended using fsh alone.   objective: this study was performed in pcos patients to compare art outcomes in cycles induced by fsh alone, using eith...

background: smoking has negative effects on reproductive process. exposing to cigarette smoking (passive smoking) may exert some effects as the direct smoking. objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between ovarian response and passive smoking in women who underwent art cycles. materials and methods: one hundred-sixty patients who underwent icsi between 2000 and 2001 w...

In a recent work, we proposed a method for unequal error protection with Luby Transform codes and showed that it achieves lower bit error rates than a state of the art technique when the information symbols are partitioned into two protection levels (most important and least important). In this paper, we apply our previous work to the problem of video multicast with heterogeneous receivers. We ...

mosques, as symbol of islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of allah the almighty. there are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. aesthetic value in islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

Women with breast cancer are naturally exposed to strain related to diagnosis and treatment, and this influences their experienced quality of life (QoL). The present paper reports the effect, with regard to QoL aspects, of an art therapy intervention among 41 women undergoing radiotherapy treatment for breast cancer. The women were randomized to an intervention group with individual art therapy...

Ambient assistive technology (AAT) is envisioned as a powerful tool for facing the growing demands the demographic change toward an aging society puts on care. While AAT is often expected to increase the quality of life of older people, this paper holds that relevant interventions often embody values that can contradict such visions, and in some cases even be harmful to care receivers. We argue...