EVIDENCE FOR SHORT DURATION OF ANTIBIOTIC TREATMENT FOR NON-SEVERE COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA (CAP) IN CHILDREN - ARE WE THERE YET? A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS

Context: The ideal duration of antibiotic treatment for childhood community acquired pneumonia (CAP) has not yet been established.Objective: A literature search was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of shorter than 7 days duration of oral antibiotic treatment for childhood non-severe CAP.Data sources: A systematic literature search was performed u

This is a comparative review of two conferences held in North America in March of 2018.Carceral Cultures was presented by the Canadian Association silver lining herbs kidney support of Cultural Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, from March 1-4.The purpose of the conference was to bring together cultural theorists, practitioners and acti

In this study, the challenges of the controller design of a class of Uncertain Switched Neutral Systems (USNSs) in the lochby venture pouch presence of discrete, neutral, and time-varying delays are considered by using a robust observer-based control technique.The cases where the uncertainties are normbounded and time-varying are emphasized in this

IntroductionRhodnius prolixus is a hematophagous insect and one of the main vectors for Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma rangeli parasites in Latin America.Gut microbiota and insect immune responses affect T.cruzi and T.rangeli infection within triatomines.Particularly the Toll and IMD signaling pathways activations and how they orchestrate the an

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal inflation targets for an appropriate exchange rate policy in 15 major oil exporting countries in Sub-Saharan African (SSA).Design/methodology/approach - Dynamic heterogeneous panel threshold techniques are used via threshold-effect test and threshold regression.This procedure is achi