There is an enormous inequity in global health as well as research. Less than 10% of research funds are spent on the diseases that account for 90% of the global disease burden. This case study of north-south, south-south collaborations in Sri Lanka is a classic example of the issues faced by mental health researchers in low and middle income countries (LMICs). In this paper, work carried out by...

Circulants over Finite Fields The most basic question we can ask in the study of circulants over a finite fields is the structure of the units in the circulant ring. With one exception, we shall provide a complete description of the isomorphism class of the unit group. But, we shall only provide a method of constructing these unit groups assuming generators to the units of various fields are gi...

Obstetric cholestasis (OC) is the most common liver condition specific to pregnancy and affects around 5,000 women in the UK every year. It's generally benign for the mother although the main presenting symptom of pruritus can sometimes be so severe that the woman scratches herself until she bleeds. However, the main concerns are for the fetus, as the condition is associated with an increased r...

This paper presents the design and prototype of an intelligent Dimensional Queue DQ for high performance scalable input bu ered ATM switches DQ uses pointers and linked lists to organize ATM cells into multiple virtual queues according to prior ity destination and virtual connection It enforces per virtual connection Quality of Service QoS and elim inates Head Of Line HOL blocking Using Field P...

The afforestation of abandoned farmland significantly influences soil organic carbon (OC). However, the dynamics between OC inputs after afforestation and the original OC are not well understood. To learn more about soil OC dynamics after afforestation of farmland, we measured the soil OC content in paired forest and farmland plots in Shaanxi Province, China. The forest plots had been establish...

Oral contraceptive (OC) use is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism. Previous data reported higher thrombotic risk in women using third-generation combined OC than in those using second generation OC. The difference could be explained by differential effects of progestagens on plasma sensitivity to activated protein C (APC). The main purpose of this cross-sectional study ...

The temporal and spatial distributions of primary and secondary organic carbon aerosols (OC) over the continental US from 15 June–31 August 1999, were estimated by using observational OC and elemental carbon (EC) data from Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) and Southeastern Aerosol Research and Characterization project (SEARCH) networks, coupled with the primary O...

Input-bu ered ATM Switches Haoran Duan; J. W. Lockwood, S. M. Kang, and J. D. Will University of Illinois at Urbana{Champaign NSF ERC for Compound Semiconductor Microelectronics Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A. (217) 244-1565 (Voice), (217) 244-8371 (FAX) email: [email protected]...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of four simplified molecular assays for the diagnosis of Trypanosoma brucei spp. or Leishmania ssp. in a multicentre ring trial with seven participating laboratories. METHODS The tests are based on PCR or NASBA amplification of the parasites nucleic acids followed by rapid read-out by oligochromatographic dipstick (PCR-OC and NASBA-O...

The effect of constant temperature on the germination rate and percentage of two cotton seed lots was determined using a thermogradient plate. A gradient of 10 oC to 40 oC was established across the plate so that temperatures changed 2 oC for each 5 cm increment in length, resulting in sixteen different temperature treatments. The optimal temperature zone for germination was 28 oC to 30 oC. As ...