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Credit: University of Southampton Cutting-edge 3D scanners have been put to the test by researchers from the University of Southampton and partners Exceed Worldwide to help increase the quality and quantity of prosthetics services around the world. The study, carried out within the People Powered Prosthetics research group compared plaster-casts and 3D scans for prosthetic limb users in Cambodia to establish the suitability of different digital technologies. The results, published in the Journ...

BIS To Promote Adoption Of Indian Standards In Developing Countries by Arun Kumar Das - Mar 16, 2021 05:35 AM Bureau of Indian Standards. Snapshot BIS can provide solutions free of cost to other countries that are at the same level of technological advancement and have similar climatic and socio-economic conditions. Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS) has offered to provide standards and quality related solutions to developing and least developed countries. The national standards body, which is und...

The findings of this study suggest that, based on a sample from an otherwise healthy population, the overall number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the U.S. may be substantially higher than estimates based on public health case reporting.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Map of the world showing average number of days that someone has to work to be able to afford a tourist visa view more  Credit: Global Visa Cost Dataset How much do people have to pay for a travel permit to another country? A research team from Göttingen, Paris, Pisa and Florence has investigated the costs around the world. What they found revealed a picture of great inequality. People from poorer countries often pay many times what Europeans would pay. The results hav...

India to streamline traditional medicine exports March 15, 2021 India is to set up an export promotion council to internationally streamline the market for its traditional medicines. The council will be jointly initiated by India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of AYUSH, which is an acronym for different types of traditional medicines. Courtesy photo NEW DELHI — India is to set up an export promotion council to internation...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Zimbabwe smallholder maize-growing households blighted by fall armyworm are 12% more likely to experience hunger. view more  Credit: CABI CABI has led the first study to explore the income and food security effects of the fall armyworm invasion on a country - revealing that in Zimbabwe smallholder maize-growing households blighted by the pest are 12% more likely to experience hunger. Dr Justice Tambo, lead researcher of the study published in Food and Energy Security, ...

Washington [US] March 13 (ANI): The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has announced it will support Indian manufacturer Biological E's efforts to produce at least 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2022 with stringent regulatory authorization (SRA) and/or WHO Emergency Use listing including Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

 E-Mail Arlington, Va. (March 12, 2021)--A new supplement offering guidance on severe COVID-19 management in resource-limited settings is now available on the American Journal of Tropical Medicine (AJTMH) website. Pragmatic Recommendations for the Management of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Low- and Middle-Income Countries was coordinated by a COVID-LMIC Task Force headed by Alfred Papali, MD, of Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, and Marcus Schultz, MD, PhD, of Mahidol University, Bangkok, Th...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Annual wet-bulb Cooling Degree Days CDDwb (°C-days) in the baseline and the specific warming level scenarios. view more  Credit: See the paper Space cooling already accounts for 14% of residential electricity demand in Brazil, and it is expected to increase further because of climate change. Very few studies investigate the relationship between climate change, cooling needs, and electricity demand. In a new study in Energy and Buildings, a team of researchers from Un...

Researchers sought to quantify cancer surgical backlog and determine whether there were differences in sociodemographic and hospital characteristics among patients undergoing cancer surgery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.