Perceptions of the functioning and effectiveness of nursing regulators in Ghana and South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Objective Nursing regulators are important governance structures for nurses who are critical to the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC).This study examined the perspectives of the heads of nursing education institutions (NEIs) in Ghana and South Africa on the functioning and effectiveness of the respective nursing regulators.Design This

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Microwaves Are Everywhere: RFID-Do You Know Where Your Pet Is?

This is the third article in our continuing series of general Silicone Straws interest tutorial papers on the applications of microwaves in areas of science and technology that might not be appreciated by every engineer.The tagging of people, animals, and all manner of things for individual identification purposes has been an obsession of humanity

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Genome heterogeneity drives the evolution of species

Most of the DNA that composes a complex organism is noncoding and defined as junk.Even the coding part is composed of genes that affect the phenotype differently.Therefore a random mutation has an effect on the specimen fitness that strongly depends on the DNA region where it occurs.Understanding how this heterogeneous composition influences the fi

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