... Sensitivity and Specificity was found to be 93.45% and 88.10 % for Primary and secondary smear respectively The Positive predictive value and Negative Predictive value was 96.91 % and 77.08 % ... gold standard With the emergence of MDR and XDR TB, case detection and identification retains a very high priority With this study we wish to emphasize the efficiency of ZN staining method and Culture ... Research Article Biology and Medicine, (1): 32-36, 2012 www.biolmedonline.com Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health carefacility *SI Khatib1,3,...
... and, consistent with the wider population [8,9], female CAM users employ these treatments supplementary to conventional care [4] Pregnancy and CAM: evidence, communication and risk Pregnant and ... complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy and implications for healthcare providers Expert Rev Obstet Gynecol 2011, 6(4):365–366 25 Keppel G: Design and Analysis: A Researcher’s Handbook ... medicine Background Women’s health and the rise of complementary and alternative medicine Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - a range of treatments and practices not traditionally associated...
... management and supervision; training and career progression; incentives http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/14 and retention factors; resource constraints; motivation; and status ... structures and systems exist for MLP support and supervision? • What possibilities MLPs feel are available for training and career progression? • What incentives and motivation they feel are currently ... for them to remain within the health care system? • How MLPs feel that more established health care personnel view them? Methods Qualitative health research aims to answer "how" and "why" questions...
... alternative and eclectic ways of delivering and accessing self -care training courses may be required Recruiting directly from within primary and secondary care, and incorporating self -care training ... provide and commission a wide range of primary careand community services are the organizations responsible for the implementation of EPP during its introductory phase through- out England Within ... Patients Programme within the structures and locality contexts of the NHS in England University of Manchester, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre; 2005 Rhodes R: Understanding governance...
... penetration capacity and purification efficiency during continuous use of the facility was investigated The facility consisted of two tanks In one of the tanks, continuous use of the facilityand change ... Lower layer of weir (cm) (cm) (cm) Akadama sand (5) Pit sand (40) Pit sand (45) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.2, 2005 water and Overflow water were measured by a flow ... Surface 750m2 The outline of the soil penetration facility is shown in Figure and Table The facility consisted of two Inflow parallel soil tanks; Tank A and Tank B (Figure 3) water each with soil of...
... and Jennifer Welch Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications / Diane J Cook and Sajal K Das (Editors) Fundamentals of Computer Organizationand Architecture / M Abd-El-Barr and ... Instructions Mnemonics and Syntax 3.3 Assembler Directives and Commands 3.4 Assembly and Execution of Programs 3.5 Example: The X86 Family 3.6 Summary Exercises References and Further Reading 37 ... understanding and appreciation of the fundamentals of I/O operations, devices, and interfaces are of great importance The focus of Chapter is a study on input –output (I/O) design and organization...
... Add Unsigned addu R R[rd] = R[rs] + R[rt] Andand R R[rd] = R[rs] & R[rt] And Immediate andi I Branch On Equal beq I Branch On Not Equal bne I Jump j Jump And Link Jump Register addi 8hex 9hex / ... interface between the hardware and software is of particular importance This new edition of Computer Organizationand Design is mandatory for any student who wishes to understand multicore architecture ... understand basic computer organization as well as readers with backgrounds in assembly language and/ or logic design who want to learn how to design a computer or understand how a system works and...
... than CPU and RAM § Need I/O modules Input/Output Module § Entity of the computer that controls external devices & exchanges data between CPU, Memory and external devices § Interface to CPU and Memory ... identifier CPU commands contain identifier (address) I/O Mapping § § Memory mapped I/O • Devices and memory share an address space • I/O looks just like memory read/write • No special commands for I/O ... reads word from I/O module Writes to memory I/O Commands § CPU issues address • Identifies module (& device if >1 per module) § CPU issues command • Control - telling module what to ü e.g spin...
... allocated to program and data May be a number of program and data segments Advantages of Segmentation § Simplifies handling of growing data structures § Allows programs to be altered and recompiled ... not require contiguous page frames Use page table to keep track Logical and Physical Addresses - Paging Virtual Memory § Demand paging • Do not require all pages of a process in memory • Bring in ... Objectives and Functions § Convenience • Making the computer easier to use § Efficiency • Allowing better use of computer resources Layers and Views of a Computer System Operating...
... highest address § This is called little-endian Standard … What Standard? § Pentium (80x86), VAX are little-endian § IBM 370, Moterola 680x0 (Mac), and most RISC are big-endian § Internet is big-endian ... Operands can also be represented in this way • ADD A,B Instruction Types § Data processing • Arithmetic & Logic instruction ü Process numeric data ü Operates on bits of the word as bits and not ... allowed in an instruction § Decide the categories of processor architecture § addresses • Operand 1, Operand 2, Result • a = b + c; • May be a forth - next instruction (usually implicit) • Not common...
... technique -Tells where the operand is Immediate Addressing § Operand is part of instruction § Operand = address field § e.g ADD • Add to contents of accumulator • is operand § No memory reference ... Opcode operand Size of number is restricted to the size of operand filed Direct Addressing § Address field contains address of operand § Effective address EA = address field A § Operand = (EA) ... Operand Indirect Addressing (1) § Memory cell pointed to by address field contains the address of (pointer to) the operand § EA = (A) • Look in A, find address (A) and look there for operand...
... blocks (see O/S) • Interrupt Vectors (see O/S) § N.B CPU design and operating system design are closely linked Example Register Organizations Foreground Reading § Stallings Chapter 11 § Manufacturer ... loaded to MAR MBR written to memory PC loaded with address of interrupt handling routine Next instruction (first of interrupt handler) can be fetched Data Flow (Interrupt Diagram) Prefetch § § § § ... performance Pipelining § § § § § § Fetch instruction Decode instruction Calculate operands (i.e EAs) Fetch operands Execute instructions Write result § Overlap these operations Timing of Pipeline...
... Main Memory and Processor 287 L1 and L2 Cache Placement 287 Split Cache Organization 288 Organization of Cache into Lines 289 Division of Memory into Blocks 290 Organization ... 386 Format and Parameters of the EQU Directive 386 Sample Code with and without the EQU Directive 386 Format and Parameters of the MOV Opcode 387 Format and Parameters of the IN and OUT ... and OUT Opcodes 387 Format and Parameters of the ADD Opcode 388 Format and Parameters of NEG, NOT, DEC, and INC 388 Format and Parameters of SAR, SHR, SAL, and SHL 389 Example of a JMP...
... lung tissue of mouse and spleen and thymus of human and mouse [11,37] Foxp3 is also highly expressed in lymphoid organs, such as the thymus and spleen [49], and its expression within a variety of ... [81] stat6, t-bet and foxp3 gene organizationand chromosome synteny The zebrafish stat6, t-bet and foxp3 gene organization was elucidated by comparing the zebrafish stat6, t-bet and foxp3 cDNA obtained ... mice [44] The gene organizations of zebrafish t-bet, stat6 and foxp3 were also determined and found to be very similar to their human homologues Both the human and zebrafish T-bet and Foxp3 genes...
... barrel between the b3-strand and the a3-helix; (b) the catalytic machinery consists of the b4-strand aspartate (nucleophile), b5-strand glutamate (proton donor) and b7-strand aspartate (transition-state ... Gabrisko and S Janec Origin of rBAT and 4F2hc within the GH13 a-amylase family Fig Selection pressure acting on rBAT and 4F2hc proteins and GH13 insect a-glucosidases (AGLU) Yellow highlighting (1 and ... the hcHAT and hcHAT-like proteins and GH13 enzymes, as well as within the individual groups of hcHAT representatives, i.e rBAT, 4F2hc, hcHAT1, hcHAT2 and ATG groups (Table 1) Overall, and interestingly,...
... placed on a signal queue, and then dequeued by the signal handler Before any additional processing can happen, a second /dev/imon [3] is an inode monitor, and where events within the filesystem are ... handling a large number of events are dependent on the efficiency of event notification and delivery This paper has presented the design criteria for a generic and scalable event notification facility, ... in Figure The udata field is passed in and out of the kernel unchanged, and is not used in any way The usage of this field is entirely application dependent, and is provided as a way to efficiently...
... of the catalytic domain, the N-terminal end of strand b4 and helix a5, and the C-terminal end of strand b8 belonging to the CP domain (Figs and 2) Each MetRS binds one phos3950 phate molecule ... interaction The position and curvature of the b8 and the b4 strands is stabilized by an ion-pair interaction between Glu161 and Arg210, which also forms hydrogen bonds to Gln54 and a water molecule ... [28] In M smegmatis MetRS, two helices (a2 and a8) are inserted Helix a2 connects the b2 strand with helix a3, and helix a8 connects helix a7 with strand b9 (Fig 1) The active site is positioned...
... relationships among land use; the mobility of disabled and elderly recipients of public home healthcare; the mobility of their homecare workers; and how much care those homecare workers provide ... old or older “Caregiver” typically indicates all types of caregivers “Provider” means IHSS caregivers “Informal caregiver” describes an unpaid caregiver 2 • The IHSS client and caregiver populations ... contributions of and problems faced by those who care for the disabled and elderly Yet the research so far has not considered these issues simultaneously In contrast, transportation, land use, and caregiving...