Fabrication of microscale and nanoscale silicon waveguide devices requires patterning silicon, but until recently, exploitation of the technology has been restricted by the difficulty of forming ever-small features wi...
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Fabrication of microscale and nanoscale silicon waveguide devices requires patterning silicon, but until recently, exploitation of the technology has been restricted by the difficulty of forming ever-small features with minimum linewidth fluctuation. A technique was developed for fabricating such devices achieving vertical sidewall profile, smooth sidewall roughness of less than10 nm, and fine features of 40 nm. subsequently, silicon microring resonator and silicon-grating coupler were realized using this technique.
Background:Low-and middle-income countries are facing an increasing burden of disability and death due to cardiovascular *** makers and healthcare providers alike need resource estimation tools to improve healthcare d...
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Background:Low-and middle-income countries are facing an increasing burden of disability and death due to cardiovascular *** makers and healthcare providers alike need resource estimation tools to improve healthcare delivery and to strengthen healthcare systems to address this *** estimated the direct medical costs of primary prevention,screening,and management for cardiovascular diseases in a primary healthcare center in Nepal based on the Global Hearts evidence based treatment protocols for risk-based ***:We adapted the World Health Organization’s non-communicable disease costing tool and built a model to predict the annual cost of primary CVD prevention,screening,and management at a primary healthcare center *** used a one-year time horizon and estimated the cost from the Nepal government’s *** used Nepal health insurance board’s price for medicines and laboratory tests,and used Nepal government’s salary for human resource *** the model,we estimated annual incremental cost per case,cost for the entire population,and cost per *** also estimated the amount of medicines for one-year,annual number of laboratory tests,and the monthly incremental work load of physicians and nurses who deliver these ***:For a primary healthcare center with a catchment population of 10,000,the estimated cost to screen and treat 50%of eligible patients is UsD21.53 per case and averages UsD1.86 per capita across the catchment *** cost of screening and risk profiling only was estimated to be UsD2.49 per *** same coverage level,we estimated that an average physician’s workload will increase annually by 190 h and by 111 h for nurses,i.e.,additional 28.5 workdays for physicians and 16.7 workdays for *** total annual cost could amount up to UsD18,621 for such a primary healthcare ***:This is a novel study for a PHC-based,primary CVD risk-based management program in Nepal,which can provi
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