Patterns and determinants of acute psychiatric readmissions

Objectives.Deinstitutionalisation and shortage of psychiatric beds worldwide has led to extensive research into the risk fac- tors and interventions associated with rapid and recurrent admission to hospital.Little research of this nature has taken place in South Africa, particularly with regard to acute hospital admissions.This study attempted prim

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Achieving Low Coke Rate Using Calibrated Iron Ore as the Sole Iron Source in Burden Charge During the Successful Recommissioning of Blast Furnace in Syria

In the backdrop of war and amid sanctions on Syria, a mini blast furnace has been successfully recommissioned in Hassia, Syria, and the hot metal produced is used for the production of 130 mm2 mild steel billets, providing import substitution as presently bushranger awning the billets are being imported from countries such as Russia, Ukraine, etc.E

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Multicarrier Division Duplex Aided Millimeter Wave Communications

The existing time-division duplex (TDD) click here and frequency-division duplex (FDD) techniques rely on a guard time and/or a guard band to avoid self-interference (SI) between the uplink and downlink channels, which results in the wastage of precious spectral resources.The full-duplex (FD) schemes of in-band FD (IBFD), as well as multicarrier di

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