BackgroundThe voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) program in Zimbabwe aims to circumcise 80% of males aged 13-29 by 2017.We assessed the impact of actual VMMC scale-up to date and evaluated the impact of potential alterations to the program to enhance program efficiency, through prioritization of subpopulations.Methods and findingsWe impleme
Multi-slice (MS) super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) Unterminated Harnesses methods have been proposed to improve the trade-off between resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and scan time in magnetic resonance imaging.MS-SRR consists in the estimation of an isotropic high-resolution image from a series of anisotropic MS images with a low through-plan
Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an autosomal dominant disorder due to a congenital absence of low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDL-R) that transports cholesterol-carrying lipoprotein particles into cells.Absence of these receptors results in increased levels Non-HDL lipoproteins (like LDL, VLDL, Triglycerides, Lipoprotein a) which predispose
The deterministic flowshop model is one of the most widely studied problems; whereas its stochastic equivalent has remained a challenge.Furthermore, the preemptive online stochastic flowshop problem has received much less attention, and most of the previous researches have considered a nonpreemptive version.Moreover, little attention has been devot