Introduction: The WHO has developed medication use indicators, including prescription indicators with an aim to evaluate the services provided to the population in regard to medications.With the help of these indicators, there will be constant watch on drug prescribing pattern in health care to avoid irrational prescribing.Objectives: The objective
Abstract Background The holistic approach of traditional medicine renders the identification of its mechanisms of action difficult.Microarray technology provides an efficient way to analyze the complex genome-wide gene expression of cells treated with mixtures of medicinal ingredients.We performed transcriptional profiling of MCF-7 cells treated wi
A recent meta-analysis claimed to provide evidence that academic self-concept and achievement have reciprocal prospective effects on each other (reciprocal effects model).However, prospective effects were estimated while adjusting for a prior measurement of the outcome, and this method is susceptible to spurious findings due to correlations with re
We propose a novel approach for near-field tsunami detection, specifically for the area near the city of Padang, Indonesia.Padang is located on the western shore of Sumatra, directly across from the Mentawai segment of the Sunda Trench, where accumulated strain has not been released since the great earthquake of 1797.Consequently, the risk of a maj