Introduction: Kenya adopted the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) strategy in 1998 to strengthen disease surveillance and epidemic response.However, the goal of weekly surveillance reporting among health facilities has not been achieved.We conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of adequate reporting and fact
In this study, we synthesized a SiO2-APTES core-shell microsphere (Si-NH2-MS) flame retarding material (FRM) as a heat shielding layer on natural fabrics, such as jute, cotton, and flax(cellulose) fibers.This integration was made to improve the flame retardancy property of pure jute, pure cotton, and pure flax fibers by dip-coating deposition of ch
Since December 2019 SARS-CoV-2 infections have affected millions of people worldwide.Along with the increasing number of COVID-19 patients, the number of cases of opportunistic fungal infections among the COVID-19 patients is also increasing.There have been reports of the cases of aspergillosis and candidiasis in the COVID-19 patients.The COVID-19
Abstract Demand response has the potential to bring significant benefits to the optimal sizing of distributed generation Heel Support (DG) resources for microgrids planning.This paper presents an integrated resources planning model considering the impact of interruptible loads (IL) and shiftable loads (SL) in microgrids, which simultaneously deals