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Information technology has to be exploited to meet todays challenges within healthcare. This book describes a structured electronic medical record system in nursing homes in Bergen, Norway. Its decision making support and statistical capabilities shows how quality can be improved and how quality- and management data can be collected in an automated way. The system was installed and mission critical use started in seven institutions with 800 us...

An attractive substitute for the hazardous chemicals used in agriculture are the potential soil microbes exhibiting immense genetic variability and flourishing in diverse habitats that have potential to enhance plant growth by plethora of mechanisms. They can be commercially exploited for the benefit of sustainable agriculture. For synergistic effects microbial consortia rather than individual microbes needs to be investigated. With the advanc...

Most of the oral dosage forms possess several physiological limitations such as variable gastrointestinal transit because of variable gastric emptying leading to non-uniform absorption profiles, incomplete drug release and shorter residence time of the dosage form in the stomach. This leads to incomplete absorption of drugs having absorption window especially in the upper part of the small intestine, as once the drug passes down the absorption...

Enteric fever still remains a major endemic problem in India. Isolation of Genus Salmonella organisms from patient's samples is the gold standard, however it is well recognized that facilities for culture are not readily available or limited in many areas. Although the culture method is gold standard, it is however time consuming, expensive and the culture positive cases are also very less hence serological testing for Salmonella antibodies is...

In Iranian EFL contexts, widely published materials are not used officially in public schools rather, they are utilized informally in language institutions and private colleges. The insufficiency and shortage of the pedagogical values of school textbooks have been proved by many researches. However, the universally published textbooks which are broadly utilized in informal contexts in our country have not gone under a close scrutiny yet. This ...

Los medios de comunicación tienen una enorme importancia e influencia social. Estos medios, prácticamente en su totalidad corporativos, es decir, poseídos o controlados por las grandes corporaciones económicas, marcan y conducen el rumbo de la mayor parte de la población occidental. Pocas personas escapan a su influencia y pocas también mantienen una actitud crítica con ellos. Esta influencia, tristemente, no ha sido para bien, bien al contrar...

Real exchange rate is usually used as a measure of export competitiveness of a country. This study mainly focuses on examining whether Ethiopia's exports are determined by movements in real exchange rate. To scrutinize this issue, the aggregate export and the exports of two main subsectors, namely, coffee and oilseeds are taken into consideration using bilateral exports to seventeen major trading partners over the period 2000-2009. Accordingly...

Does the Scientist's Sex Matter in the Laboratory? The Effects of an Experimenter's Sex in Psychology Experiments investigates the ways in which an experimenter's sex influences psychology research. This investigation includes a meta-analysis of studies that have examined the effects of experimenter sex, followed by a replication of a 1974 study that found that participants perceived male and female experimenters differently.

Severe preterm delivery is defined as babies born at 32 weeks or less of gestation. The earlier the baby is born, the less likely he or she is to survive. Those who do survive are at a higher risk of lifelong health problems, of which the ophthalmic complications include retinopathy of prematurity, myopia, amblyobia, strabismus and optic nerve abnormalities. This study is to compare the ocular biometric parameters, optic nerve head parameters,...

Writing a good research proposal is a big challenge to post graduate scholars as well as researchers in the academic world. This book is aimed at helping such scholars to write a good research proposal. It is intended also to help them to think about their proposed research in a clear, structured and meaningful way. As discussed in the book, a good research proposal needs to present a researchable topic, statement of the problem, justification...

The present book aims at discussing critically the autobiographical tones in the fiction of Charles Bukowski with special reference to his two famous novels Ham on Rye and Women. An attempt has been made to examine how truly he could, through his characters and their peculiar situations express his autobiographical facts in these novels. Bukowski created a literary persona named Henry Chinaski as a vessel for expressing his alternative view of...

Las reformas estructurales, realizadas desde hace más de dos décadas en las naciones latinoamericanas, han creado nuevas condiciones en los equilibrios de los poderes del Estado. En especial, han dotado de mayores atributos al poder judicial, en cuanto a su independencia y autonomía, frente a los otros poderes públicos. La figura del juez de las Altas Cortes se ha entronizado, muchas veces de manera equívoca y ambigüa, como garante último del ...

Political Ethics and Wisdom of Chanakya is a complete collection of Chanakya's thoughts in "Do's and Don'ts" format which one can apply in the conduct of one's daily life, follow a set of simple rules as said in the couplets and stud one's mindset with the gems of his philosophy and wisdom. This original book of research is based on the works of Chanakya, One of the Great Architect and Economist of Ancient India (about 350 - 283 Before Common ...

Fish are well known to act as direct or indirect carriers of different zoonotic pathogens including parasites, viruses, bacteria and fungi. Parasitic infection is one of the most important problems facing fish breeding and production at commercial scales. So the most important reason for studying fish parasites is to study the relationships of these parasites to fishes, animals and man and also to understand some human health problems.The name...

The reader will, I feel sure, find these articles not merely perceptive, but genuinely inspiring. At a time when political cynicism and bureaucratic double-talk can so readily discourage idealism - each of these writers demonstrates that courage and visionary enthusiasm are far from obsolete. Their experiences have been a privilege to learn from and, I believe, each author can be viewed as a role model for all who may question "but can an indi...

Worldwide, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women and it is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women(Jemal, Ward, Center, Siegel and Thun). In Zimbabwe, the proportion of women dying from breast cancer is 1 in 28. The breast cancer rates are higher than those for any other cancers besides lung cancer(Chokunonga, Borok, Chirenje, Nyakabau and Rukainga, 2009). The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship...

V monografii raskryto sowremennoe sostoqnie social'noj pedagogiki kak razwiwaüschejsq oblasti nauchnogo znaniq. Monografiq opiraetsq na sistematizirowannye w hode mnogoletnej issledowatel'skoj raboty dannye. V nej proanalizirowan period "wtorogo rozhdeniq" ili wozrozhdeniq social'noj pedagogiki na pereput'e XX - XXI wekow, raskryty ob'ekt i predmet social'noj pedagogiki, logika wybora metodologicheskih i teoreticheskih osnowanij issledowaniq s...

The dynamical behavior of some eco-epidemiological models is investigated. Two types of prey-predator models involving infectious disease in predator population, which divided it into two compartments, namely susceptible population and infected population , are proposed and analyzed. The first proposed model deals with SIS infectious disease that transmitted directly from external sources, as well as, through direct contact between susceptible...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Immunoglobulins, IgG and IgM were screened among HIV/AIDS clients to determine previous and recent infections respectively by ELISA technique. Immunological test (CD4 count) was used to ascertain the immune status of the clients studied. It is hoped that this research project would elucidate on the importance of screening CMV immunoglobulins during the management and care of AIDS by healthcare team especially when screeni...

This study examined the relationship between stress and depression, and the mediating role of spiritual factors (spiritual experience, spiritual coping, and forgiveness) among 316 older adults, 65 years or older in assisted living facilities (ALFs). Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that a high level of stress was associated with a high level of depression among older residents. For male residents, a Sobel test indicated that the direc...