BACKGROUND The Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has run a surgical outreach programme for over a decade.Objective. To quantify the impact of the outreach programme by analysing its effect on the operative capacity of a single rural health district. METHODS During 2012, investigators visited each district hospital in Sisonke Health District (SHD), KZN to quantify surgery undertaken ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a serious problem in Thailand, particularly in the northeastern and northern regions. Database of population at risk are need required for monitoring, surveillance, home health care, and home visit. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a geographic information system (GIS) database and Google map of the population at risk of CCA in Mueang Yang district, Nakhon Ratc...

background: visceral leishmaniasis (vl) or kala-azar is a parasitic disease caused by the species of leishmania donovani complex. mediterranean type of the disease is endemic in some parts of iran and more than 95% of cases were reported in children up to 12 years of age. this study was performed to determine the seroprevalence of vl in the rural areas of dashti district from bushehr province. ...

1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, St. John’s University, No. 499, Section 4, Tam King Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City 25135, Taiwan 2 Graduate Institute of Computer and Communication Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, No. 1, Section 3, Chung Hsiao East Road, Taipei 10608, Taiwan 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, St. John’s University,...

Correspondence to Xuan Zhang, Department of Rheumatology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & Peking Union Medical College, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; [email protected]; and Zhaohui Zhu, MD, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science & P...

1 PG Scholar, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vivekanandha institute of Engineering and technology for Women, Tiruchengode, Namakkal District-637205. Email id: [email protected] 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vivekanandha institute of Engineering and technology for Women, Tiruchengode, Namakkal District-637205.Email ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, No. 19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100875, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information Systems, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. A11 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 10010...

By means of duplicate meals, we collected food samples of general female residents, aged 50 to 74 years at two suburban districts in Chiang Mai Province, which are distinguished by very high and low incidence rates of lung cancer. Then, on the basis of analyses of their consumption of foods by food groups, we compared their dietary habits in the dry season of northern Thailand with special refe...

s from the Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Environmental Aspects (PEEREA) Article 3 Basic Principles Contracting Parties shall be guided by the following principles: (1) Contracting Parties shall co-operate and, as appropriate, assist each other in developing and implementing energy efficiency policies, laws and regulations. (2) Contracting Parties shall establish energ...

1 Integrated Transport Research Center of China, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shangyuancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, China 2 MOE Key Laboratory for Urban Transportation Complex Systems Theory and Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, No. 3 Shangyuancun, Haidian District, Beijing 100044, China 3 School of Economics and Management, Chang’an University, Nan Er Huan Zhong Duan, Xi...