Superhydrophobic particulate films were fabricated via deposition of raspberry-like fluorescent PS/CdTe/silica microspheres on clean glass substrates and surface modification. Particularly, the fluorescent microspheres were prepared by a kind of modified strategy, namely introducing poly (acrylic acid)-functionalized polystyrene microspheres and thiol-stabilized CdTe quantum dots into a hydroly...

Mario Raviglione, World Health Organization (WHO), described the epidemiology of global tuberculosis (TB) using surveillance data available to WHO from 212 countries and data from a recent survey of antituberculosis drug resistance in 32 countries. Countries were categorized according to the degree of TB directly observed treatment strategy (DOTS) implementation. Performance of national TB prog...

Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death due to an infectious agent; it is both preventable and treatable[1]. Globally, there are more cases of tuberculosis today than in previous epochs of human history. Tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection and increasing multi-drug resistance is greatly responsible for tuberculosis assuming almost epidemic proportions[2-4]. It af...

The high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa is well established. TB, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) co-exist, which contributes to the high incidence, prevalence, and recurrent infection rate of TB. Despite the implementation of the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) strategy, a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative ...

INTRODUCTION As of 2001, the Philippines ranks 7th among the world's 22 countries with a heavy tuberculosis (TB) burden. As the country accelerates its campaign to control the global epidemic, the Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector (PhilTIPS) joined the efforts to combat it through the Directly Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) strategy and brought it to the level o...

The strategy of the combination molecular catalysts and inorganic quantum dots for solar fuel production has shown great success construction artificial photosynthetic systems in last decade.

In 1990 the Commission on Health Research for Development stated that ‘‘The magnitude of the tuberculosis problem is matched only by its relative neglect by the international community.’’ (1) A decade later, in March 2000, ministers of health and finance from the 20 countries that have 80% of the world’s tuberculosis cases met in Amsterdam and issued the Amsterdam Declaration. This stated that ...

Directly Observed Therapy Short-course (DOTS) is composed of five distinct elements: political commitment, case detection through quality-assured bacteriology; drug supplies; surveillance and monitoring systems and use of highly efficacious regimens; and direct observation of treatment. DOTS produces cure rates of up to 95 percent even in the poorest countries and prevents the development of Mu...

 Suppose $f$ is a map from a non-empty finite set $X$ to a finite group $G$. Define the map $zeta^f_G: Glongrightarrow mathbb{N}cup {0}$ by $gmapsto |f^{-1}(g)|$. In this article, we show that for a suitable choice of $f$, the map $zeta^f_G$ is a character. We use our results to show that the solution function for the word equation $w(t_1,t_2,dots,t_n)=g$ ($gin G$) is a character, where $w(t_1,...