Abstract Background Practicing hand hygiene is recommended as one of the key preventive measures for reducing the transmission of COVID-19 and other infectious agents.However, it is often not practiced frequently enough or correctly by the public.We aimed to identify barriers to and facilitators of hand hygiene in the Zimbabwean population during t
We compared the transmission performances of 600 Gbit/s PM-64QAM WDM signals over 75.6 km of single-mode fibre (SMF) using EDFA, discrete Raman, hybrid Raman/EDFA, and first-order or second-order (dual-order) distributed Raman amplifiers.Our numerical simulations and experimental results showed that the simple first-order distributed Raman scheme w
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the major hematological malignancies both in adults and children.Bone marrow biopsy is the main requirement for its accurate diagnostic and prognostic purpose till now that is a very painful process especially for children.The reluctance to go for bone marrow biopsy leads to delayed diagnosis treatment o
This article intends to develop a historical, theoretical and critical debate about mental health, as a social policy, resulting from the dialectical relationship between state and civil society.The adopted methodology is qualitative, consisting on a bibliographical and reflexive review, through which it aims to evaluate positions of various author
Summary: The mouse epididymis is a long tubule connecting the testis to the vas deferens.Its primary functions are to mature spermatozoa into motile and fertile cells and to protect them from pathogens that ascend the male tract.We previously demonstrated that a functional extracellular amyloid matrix princess jasmine silhouette surrounds spermatoz