REVISED ESTIMATES OF LEPROSY DISABILITY WEIGHTS FOR ASSESSING THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND INDIVIDUAL PATIENT DATA META-ANALYSIS.

BackgroundLeprosy is a chronic bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, which may lead to physical disability, stigma, and discrimination.The chronicity of the disease and disabilities are the prime contributors to the disease burden of leprosy.The current figures of the disease burden in the 2017 global burden of disease study, however,

Romanian small towns - urban settlements of less than 20000 inhabitants, having a polarizing function with respect to the arrethe bush balm socio-economic activities in the deeply rural areas - are considered an interface between rural and urban communities.Determining the identity of small towns is rather difficult, because complex and varied poli

Miniaturizing flow cytometry requires a comprehensive approach to redesigning the conventional fluidic and optical systems to have a small footprint and simple usage and to enable rapid cell analysis.Microfluidic methods have addressed some challenges in limiting the realization of microflow cytometry, but most microfluidics-based flow cytometry te

Based on the slip line field theory, the slip line field model of roadway floor is established.Taking 1021 roadway of Huipodi coal mine in Shanxi Province as the engineering background, the mechanism of asymmetric floor heave of roadway is studied, and the reasonable prevention and control technology of floor heave is put forward.The results show t