BACKGROUND Bagalkot district in Karnataka state is one of the highest HIV prevalence districts in India. A large proportion of the girls also marry at early age in the district and negative pregnancy outcomes among the HIV positive women likely to have large pregnancy wastages. Therefore, this study examined the pregnancy wastages and the associated factors among HIV positive women in a high pr...

The study was conducted in response to the govern m e n t ’s targets to increase police numbers. It was carried out against a backdrop of widespread concern about employment issues in the public sector and, in part i c u l a r, the re c ruitment and retention problems faced by employers in South-East England. There were increasing levels of wastage in the police service, with resignations and t...

Energy wastage in public buildings amounts to an important and not fully addressed cost. The present study is focused on introducing gamification at the workplace, with the overall goal of reducing energy wastage during and past employees’ working hours. In the context of an EU Horizon 2020 project, a gamified app and supporting infrastructure will be deployed to assist and motivate employees o...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Blood products are a major expense for the laboratory, with an intricate balance between maintaining adequate supply and expiring products. product wastage rates typically less than 2%. The SARS-CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has created multifaceted challenge in blood utilization. Difficulties predicting usage, decreased supply, transportation delays put hospitals ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intravenous (IV) medication wastage within the inpatient pharmacy services at a teaching hospital, and to highlight the main causes for such waste and propose a policy to minimize wastage based on the study findings. METHODS For a one month period starting from September until October 2009, the returned and unused IV medications to the inpatient pharmacy in a teac...

blood collection in heparin tubes for cytogenetic, and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (edta) tubes for molecular genetics applications respectively, are routine practices everywhere. if blood samples are required for cytogenetics as well as dna work, two samples from each animal are usually collected, which leads to wastage of time and money. the present study tried to explore the possibilitie...

Now a days, the usage of electronic appliances is increasing. In the offices, employees left their rooms without switching off the electrical appliances. So the power wastage increases. This power wastage can be reduced by making an intelligent system, which can control the electrical appliances automatically based on the requirement. The whole system is implemented and tested on FPGA.