COMORBIDITY OF MENTAL ILL-HEALTH IN TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS UNDER TREATMENT IN A RURAL PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA: A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY

Comorbidity of mental ill-health in tuberculosis patients under treatment in a rural province of South Africa: a cross-sectional survey

Objectives Tuberculosis (TB) remains prevalent despite the availability of effective anti-TB medications, and accumulating evidence suggests a high rate of mental disorders in people with TB.This is because TB and psychiatric disorders share several risk factors, such as poverty, homelessness and substance use disorder.Moreover, psychiatric comorbi

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A Novel Method for CSAR Multi-Focus Image Fusion

Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) has attracted a lot of interest, recently, for its excellent performance in civilian and military applications.However, in CSAR imaging, the result is to be defocused when the height of an object deviates from a reference height.Existing approaches for this problem rely on digital elevation models (DEMs) for

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Geomorphological Phenomena of the Tigris River between Dojama and Sindia Villages, Al Khalis District, Diyala Province

Differences in transversal sections and activities of geomorphological operations led to forming geomorphological shapes as river turns and river isles in watercourse in the area of study.The study showed three river turns that are Sindia turn with length 4723m, turn wave 3599 average width 267.6, Zanbour turn length 11374m, turn wave 7110 average

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