Primary health care provision through innovative community level interventions such as the Village Health Team (VHT) concept in Uganda can be a rational way of achieving universal access to healthcare. This cross-sect...Primary health care provision through innovative community level interventions such as the Village Health Team (VHT) concept in Uganda can be a rational way of achieving universal access to healthcare. This cross-sectional study interviewed 150 VHT members and 16 key informants in three districts in Northern Uganda to establish the roles of VHTs, the service gaps encountered and the measures in place to address these gaps. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0. Direct content analysis of themes of transcribed qualitative data was conducted manually for common codes. The majority of the respondents 64.29% (n = 72) reported to have been VHT volunteers for more than 5 years. Among the roles were community mobilization reported by 99.1% (n = 111) and home visiting of individuals reported by 97.3% (n = 109). Lack of transport, motivation, adequate skills and community appreciation with nearly no measures in place to counteract the challenges was reported by almost all respondents. Although the VHT concept can be a significant means of achieving universal access to primary health care, extensive community involvement and motivation of the volunteers are highly needed for a maximum benefit.展开更多
Over the next decade,Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) will bring enough capacity to serve high speed internet and in-flight connectivity markets at scale,offering fiber-like services both in terms of price and sp...Over the next decade,Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) will bring enough capacity to serve high speed internet and in-flight connectivity markets at scale,offering fiber-like services both in terms of price and speed.In this context,a generic VHTS mission utilizing Q/V-band feeder links and Ka-band user links is described.However,the rain attenuation on the feeder links becomes a limiting issue because of the higher frequencies.Toward this,an exploitation of multiple gateways (GWs) as a transmit diversity measure for overcoming severe propagation effects are being considered.Ground Application System (GAS) design of VHTS is illustrated including N+P GWs (N active and P redundant GWs) diversity,frequency plan,link budget and system capacity.展开更多
Japanese IMS-VHT project on the Virtual Heat Treatment tool for monitoring and optimising HT process in relation with the international cooperative programs is briefly introduced. This project motivates to develop vir...Japanese IMS-VHT project on the Virtual Heat Treatment tool for monitoring and optimising HT process in relation with the international cooperative programs is briefly introduced. This project motivates to develop virtual tools for computer to optimize the heat treatment condition and to support decision for HT operation by knowledge based database in addition to process simulation. As one of the activities with the cooperation of the Society of Materials Science, Japan and the Japan Society for Heat Treatment, a benchmark project is undergoing. This includes simulation of carburized quenching process of a cylinder, disc, and ring as well as a helical gear by use of common data of materials properties and cooling characteristics by several available simulation programs. A part of the newly obtained results is presented as an interim report.展开更多
文摘Primary health care provision through innovative community level interventions such as the Village Health Team (VHT) concept in Uganda can be a rational way of achieving universal access to healthcare. This cross-sectional study interviewed 150 VHT members and 16 key informants in three districts in Northern Uganda to establish the roles of VHTs, the service gaps encountered and the measures in place to address these gaps. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS 16.0. Direct content analysis of themes of transcribed qualitative data was conducted manually for common codes. The majority of the respondents 64.29% (n = 72) reported to have been VHT volunteers for more than 5 years. Among the roles were community mobilization reported by 99.1% (n = 111) and home visiting of individuals reported by 97.3% (n = 109). Lack of transport, motivation, adequate skills and community appreciation with nearly no measures in place to counteract the challenges was reported by almost all respondents. Although the VHT concept can be a significant means of achieving universal access to primary health care, extensive community involvement and motivation of the volunteers are highly needed for a maximum benefit.
文摘Over the next decade,Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) will bring enough capacity to serve high speed internet and in-flight connectivity markets at scale,offering fiber-like services both in terms of price and speed.In this context,a generic VHTS mission utilizing Q/V-band feeder links and Ka-band user links is described.However,the rain attenuation on the feeder links becomes a limiting issue because of the higher frequencies.Toward this,an exploitation of multiple gateways (GWs) as a transmit diversity measure for overcoming severe propagation effects are being considered.Ground Application System (GAS) design of VHTS is illustrated including N+P GWs (N active and P redundant GWs) diversity,frequency plan,link budget and system capacity.
文摘Japanese IMS-VHT project on the Virtual Heat Treatment tool for monitoring and optimising HT process in relation with the international cooperative programs is briefly introduced. This project motivates to develop virtual tools for computer to optimize the heat treatment condition and to support decision for HT operation by knowledge based database in addition to process simulation. As one of the activities with the cooperation of the Society of Materials Science, Japan and the Japan Society for Heat Treatment, a benchmark project is undergoing. This includes simulation of carburized quenching process of a cylinder, disc, and ring as well as a helical gear by use of common data of materials properties and cooling characteristics by several available simulation programs. A part of the newly obtained results is presented as an interim report.
