The content of 12 elements in Cambodian dried striped snakehead fish was determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The present study compares the level of the trace toxic metals and nutritional trace elements in the fish processed using solar drying system (SDS) and open sun drying (OSD). The skin of SDS fish has lower level of As, Pb, and Cd compared to the OSD sample. As ...

Ocular Surface Disease (OSD) is prevalent among medically treated patients with glaucoma. This is basically related to three key-points: OSD and glaucoma are both prevalent in elderly and are common comorbidities in the same patient; the role of the active ingredient of the medical antiglaucomatous therapy; the role of the preservative agent of this medical therapy. Considering the actual state...

In this study, we hypothesized that dynamics of sleep time obtained over consecutive days of extended sleep in a laboratory reflect an individual's optimal sleep duration (OSD) and that the difference between OSD and habitual sleep duration (HSD) at home represents potential sleep debt (PSD). We found that OSD varies among individuals and PSD showed stronger correlation with subjective/objectiv...

Intelligent storage systems were an active area of research in later half of last decade. The idea was to improve the throughput of data intensive applications from database and image processing domains by offloading computation onto the active storage elements and hopefully reducing unnecessary data traffic between data sources and compute nodes. With the advent of Object-based Storage Devices...

This systematic review aimed to describe the imaging characteristics of Osgood-Schlatter (OSD) compared with controls and findings over time. A search was conducted in Embase, CINAHL, PubMed from inception until July 2021. Forty studies were eligible included based on inclusion criteria OSD diagnosis, number patients, outcomes. In patients OSD, but not controls, soft-tissue swelling cartilage i...

Post-harvest losses are one of the major livelihood challenges for farmers in Global South. The use drying technologies to preserve agricultural products has been promoted as a particular solution address this challenge. In regard, we designed and tested passive indirect solar dryer an alternative open sun (OSD) Gurue district, Central Mozambique, using amaranth leaves maize. addition, sensoria...

The current and coming generations of large distributed file systems stripe data across large numbers of objectbased storage devices (OSDs). Subsequently, individual OSD workloads tend to exhibit no inter-object locality of reference. Small object sizes reduce OSD efficiency due to disk seek overheads. EBOFS, an extent and B+tree based object file system, allows arbitrarily sized objects and pr...

Abstract Medium-length LDPC codes are in demand certain areas such as mobile environment (Wi-Fi and Mobile WiMAX) telecommand links from the ground to space because of their lower latency properties. However, length these is rather short, decoding error rates worse than those long-length codes. In this paper, we show that combination shortened codes, whose positions properly selected, ordered s...

BACKGROUND South Africa is experiencing a critical shortage of human resources for health (HRH) at a time when the population and the burden of ill-health, primarily due to HIV, AIDS and TB, are on the increase. This shortage is particularly severe within the nursing profession, which has witnessed significant emigration due to poor domestic working conditions and remuneration. Salaries and oth...