IntroductionFrom late 2014 through 2015, Scott County, Indiana faced an HIV outbreak triggered by opioid abuse and transition to injection drug use.Investigating the origins, risk factors, and responses related to this outbreak is critical to inform future surveillance, interventions, and policymaking.In response, this retrospective infoveillance s
The proposed protocol features reliable and fast image transmission while periodically transmitting scalar data without interruption by allowing two networks, a LoRa network and a wireless sensor network, with different transmission characteristics to cooperate.It adopts the RT-LoRa protocol for periodic scalar data transmission and uses a WSN-base
This paper quantifies the benefits of flattening the curve (with a constant total patient load over the study period) on the risk of a hospital bed shortage in a pandemic.Using discrete-event simulation of patient care paths in hospitals, synthetic data that eliminates issues of confounding affects from the simultaneous occurrence of regional respo
Background: Microbial keratitis is an important cause of ocular morbidity, with emerging organisms and drug resistance posing a real threat to vision of patients.Case presentation: A 30-year-old female presented with infective keratitis in the left eye.She had been using rose nectar as home remedy for her ailment.With no improvement in her symptoms
Zinc is Swim a crucial micronutrient for maintaining body immune system and metabolism function.However, insufficient intake from diet may lead to zinc deficiency and impair normal body function.In addition, conventional zinc salts supplementation has the disadvantage of low bioavailability since the zinc ions may be easily chelated by dietary fibe