HIV testing rates remain very low in Colombia, with only 20% of individuals at risk ever tested. In order to tackle this issue, the Corporacion de Lucha Contra el Sida (CLS) has implemented a multidisciplinary, provider-initiated, population-based HIV testing/counselling strategy named BAFI. In this report, we describe the experience of CLS at reaching populations from low socioeconomic backgro...

Audit logs provide information about historical states of computer systems. They also contain highly valuable data that can be used by law enforcement in forensic investigations. Thus, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of audit logs is of vital importance. An ideal security mechanism for audit logging must also satisfy security properties such as forwardsecurity (compromise resiliency), c...

Higher education is attracting enormous attention. Interest comes from all sectors, including governors, legislators, publishers, editors, citizens of all political persuasions, students, parents, and, of course, university colleagues and administrators. While interest is high, the associated outcomes have generated significant concerns, with many concluding that all is not well (Redican & Bafi...

A candidate marker that influences the flavor and odor of Indonesian sheep is Potassium Channel Tetramerization Domain Containing 2 (KCTD2) gene. This study aims to examine polymorphism association between KCTD2 gene lamb in local sheeps. used DNA taken from longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle 100 rams including 75 Javanese Thin-Tail (JTTS), 10 Fat-Tail Sheep (JFTS), 15 Jonggol (JS), with ranged weig...

The stem heartwood of Lophira alata Banks ex C. F. Gaertn. (Ochnaceae), also called “bongossi”, shows strong resistance against destructive fungi and bacteria and is extensively exploited as fi rst-grade timber. Both aqueous and alcohol extracts of either the leaves, the stem bark or the stem heartwood of this plant are extensively used as antiseptics by many tribes in the central and southern ...

Persistence of latently infected cells in presence of Anti-Retroviral Therapy presents the main obstacle to HIV-1 eradication. Much effort is thus placed on identification of compounds capable of HIV-1 latency reversal in order to render infected cells susceptible to viral cytopathic effects and immune clearance. We identified the BAF chromatin remodeling complex as a key player required for ma...

Recent advances in the design of photostimulable phosphor (PSP) plates for computed radiography (CR) systems have made it possible to manufacture plates made of BaFI:Eu phosphor material in the cassette form. The image quality of this plate, six BaF(Br,I):Eu plates, and one BaFBr:Eu plate were evaluated in terms of presampling modulation transfer function (MTF), normalized Wiener spectra (WSN),...

nowadays, women's participation in rural sustainable development is not considered as an optional issue, but a necessity. the societies downgrading the need for women's participation have faced failures, cuausing delay in sustainable development and the meeting of social security as well as social welfare. this applied research was aimed at clarifying the role of rural women's pa...