Estimates of meningitis incidence in African adults are lacking, but a higher burden of disease is likely, compared with resource-rich countries, particularly where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is highly prevalent [ 5].
Nonetheless, in this particularly difficult context, we carried-out serious and reliable data collection and analyses, and have shown that despite the difficulties in managing our patients, the outcome is relatively similar when compared with resource-rich settings in terms of duration of hospital stay and mortality rate.
Compared with resources such as the Telomerase Database (54), TeloPIN has several distinct features.
However, the resources and funding required to support the science are still inadequate when compared with resources provided for the other components of environmental health sciences.
Others view nurse productivity as the ratio of output produced compared with resources consumed and proposed that nurse productivity can be measured at the hospital unit, departmental or divisional levels [ 7, 8].
In this section, the proposed resource provisioning method is compared with existing resource provisioning algorithms (i.e., SMICloud [18], OCRP [13], Tordsson et al. [6], Breitgand et al. [9] and Wright et al. [11]).
Referral to in-house resources, compared with external resources, has been found to facilitate referral behaviour.
For instance, the power models with utilization threshold algorithm [[6]] are argued to assist dynamic VM placement and migration so that a considerable amount of energy consumption and CO2 emissions can be reduced compared with static resource allocation approaches.
In a heterogeneous network (HetNet) deployment, it generates a gain of 45% for the combined macro and pico edge users at a very small cost for the cell centre lower than 4% when compared with standard resource allocation.
