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Exporting Technology To Africa To Save Lives

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A chance phone call from the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique has changed ours and their lives dramatically. It shows the power of creating appropriate and well constructed websites describing a companys services and products.

What was the problem and then the solution:
Delayed test results have often meant that HIV patients in Mozambique have failed to get timely treatment, particularly for preventing Mother to Child transfer (MTCT) of HIV on birth. However, having introduced and developed our new SMS printer technology with the Clinton Foundation and the Mozambique Ministry of Health the need to send tests to far away laboratories has reduced and has dramatically speeded up test results and HIV treatment for Mothers, Mothers-to-be and their newly born. After a successful 2009 pilot Mozambique has nationally rolled out our SMS printer technology and gateway, with Clinton Foundations help. This GSM network based printer and gateway technology transmits the results of mother and infant HIV tests electronically from two central reference laboratories in Maputo and the northern provincial capital, Nampula, to more than 275 health centres across the country. Previously, test samples and results took, on average, three weeks and up to several months to be transported to and from clinics via various means in remote parts of the country.

How did Sequoia and Clinton Foundation meet?
Because of this serious delay in test results the Clinton Foundation in Mozambique looked around for a technology based solution. They ended up contacting us in Reading having seen our website and enquired about using our SMS printer technology for sending health test data over the GSM network to speed up the time taken. After hearing what the program was about and the disastrous pass through rate from Mother to child for HIV we, at Sequoia, could only say yes to help with the program. Two years of concentrated work with the Clinton Foundation on the hardware and the required gateway software produced a successful pilot program. Subsequent research conducted by the Ministry of Health of Mozambique and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), after our SMS printer technology and gateway had been installed, showed that the time it took for clinics to receive test results from reference labs had dropped from an average of about three weeks to about three days after the printers were introduced. Research presented by the Ministry of Health and CHAI at the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria, showed that this, in turn, reduced the time it took to start infants (and /or mothers to be) on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment by about 4 months. This is now part of the national prevention of mother-to-child (PMTCT) HIV transmission service within Mozambique. The number of infants starting treatment also increased by 60 percent.

How the SMS printer technology and gateway works:
Clinics across the country collect dried blood spot samples from infants and / or mothers to be and transport them to the nearest reference lab, where lab technicians conduct the HIV tests. Results are entered into the SMS printer database at the reference lab and then uploaded onto the Sequoia Technology online server (in Reading UK). The Sequoia gateway then uses the local MCEL GSM phone network to transmit results back to the appropriate clinic. Each clinic has a small thermal paper, GPRS enabled printer that receives the patient test data and prints out the HIV test results alongside a patient identification number. With interruptions in electricity and wireless network signal, the system has been designed to ensure 100 of the data is received by the appropriate printer completely intact – if printers are offline, results are safeguarded in an online gateway queue until the printer is available. The Sequoia Technology gateway shows the status of every printer whether on or not and the number of messages sent or in a queue waiting to be printed. The printer’s small size also makes storage easy in space-constrained clinics, which must also ensure that the printer is kept in a secure room to guarantee patient confidentiality.

Greater efficiency The introduction of SMS printers to clinics has not only meant that babies who test HIV-positive can be started on ARVs sooner – a potentially life-saving intervention – but has also reduced the numbers of new mothers who disappear from the clinics PMTCT program during the, previously, long wait times or after having spent time and money on multiple clinic visits to check for results. According to Mozambiques 2010 report to the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), about 30 percent of babies born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus, but only about 14 percent of these babies are tested for HIV before the age of 18 months. Without treatment one-third of HIV-positive babies will die in their first year of life, and almost half by the age of two. With our SMS printer technology in place now the clinics are being able to get to and test mothers-to-be ?for HIV and be able to prescribe AVR drugs in enough time to reduce the likelihood of mother to child transfer of HIV. Additionally further testing after childbirth can check the mothers viral load to ensure the right drugs are given when the mother is breastfeeding an additional way of MTCT of HIV. With our technology in place now, throughout Mozambique, the 30-40 or less if the pre and post birth testing and drug application takes place.

Our SMS printer technology and gateway is then a fast and accurate way of transmitting confidential health data to any remote location but crucially can be used for any disease Malaria, TB, HIV in fact anything that needs to be diagnosed in a lab. This technology forms a low cost and serious platform for countries to transmit diagnostic information quickly and accurately. Additionally, the gateway consolidates all information and therefore gives statistical data about disease spread and location and the quality of the health care across a complete country. Sequoia engineers took 2 years to perfect the gateway software with CHAI and MCEL to produce 100 full data quality and with printer / server buffering and handshaking to ensure the quality of data. Extensive testing took place in pilot phase of this project. Any authorized person can log on to the SMS2printer.co.uk website and retrieve the full data and visual map of where each printer is and the stats of how many messages have been sent / received / pending at each location.

Partnership – We continue to develop more capable GPRS enabled printers and are now working with CHAI in Kenya for potentially deploying a similar system in other African countries for the same health diagnostic transmission platform. Our association with the Clinton team in Mozambique continues and has become more of a partnership and further roll outs are planned as a result of the success so far.

HTC Wildfire – Glamorous Design And Technology

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HTC Wildfire is a grand device which is put on many magnificent deals provided by the operators of the network. HTC Wildfire is one of the most popular and in demand technical marvel which has evolved as a result of the hard efforts of the brilliant minds of HTC. This device is a fantastic device that functions with the 2G as well as 3G network supporting GSM and HSDPA spectrum frequencies. This device which is wi-fi enabled provides you the internet connectivity at really appreciable and speedy data rate. The 3G, EDGE and GPRS are the other access approaches available for you with the device. This smart gadget can keep you in touch with your relatives and contacts by keeping you online at the time of your wish and from everywhere almost. Android operating system of the version 2.1 Eclair which is upgradable up to v2.2 implemented with a fast processor is the reason behind the excellent performance of the device.

HTC Wildfire gone so popular all around the world having it’s demand increasing regularly along with the popularity has magnetized the mobile phone network runners towards it and have so made them fix marvellous and charming deals with the phone along with their service. You can get the advantages of monthly free minutes and texts with the limited allotted free internet access along with the large discount made applicable with the subscription of the plan in provision of the network service of the operator. In short these HTC wildfire deals can bring countless benefits for you with many attractive and valuable free gifts.

HTC Wildfire is an amazing device which has proved itself with it’s quality performance and amazing capabilities. It has attracted and caught attention of the millions of the people from the crowd as well as the interest of the network operators. There are various kind of the plans valid on this device led by the service providers. You can have this phone on contract, pay as you go as well as get a SIM free phone.

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Trust Ultrapure Technology For Next-generation Cleanroom Construction

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Cleanrooms must be built to exact specifications in order to ensure the requisite controlled environment for seamless manufacturing. Theyre used extensively by companies within the medical manufacturing field, who require contaminant-free environments to prevent the transmission of bacteria to both workers and patients within hospitals and other care facilities. The importance of quality cleanroom manufacturing simply cannot be understands. That is the reason that many companies utilize the services of experienced cleanroom construction professionals such as Ultrapure Technology when they require a cleanroom to be installed within their manufacturing facility.

Ultrapure Technology is one of the standout leaders within the North American cleanroom construction field thanks to their ability to handle all elements of the process from exquisite design to professional installation with complete competency. One of the benefits of working with the same design team that will be conducting the cleanroom installation is that the specialists at Ultrapure Technology already know how their design will fit together before beginning the installation process. This means that the time to entire and fit the entire cleanroom is consolidated considerably so that clients can quickly begin to make a return for their investment in the latest cleanroom technology installed by Ultrapure Technology.

The team at Ultrapure Technology understands that each cleanroom build is unique and each client has specific build requirements that must be considered during the design stages. The company works with clients directly before they begin the design to ensure the all factors are considered. For example, one such factor might be how large the cleanroom needs to be. The size of the area will affect elements such as ventilation and equipment placement. Another factor in designing a high performance cleanroom is the amount of personnel within the area. The design team at Ultrapure Technology will need to know precisely how many people will be within the area at any one time to ensure that all safety precautions and spacing needs are integrated within the final design. All these elements will be reviewed during the initial consultation that takes place before the design begins. A team from Ultrapure Technology will visit the clients facility and speak with the directly about their core manufacturing requirements as well as answer any questions that they might have concerning time of project turnaround and cost of final delivery. By working together with the clients, Ultrapure Technology has established a working process for seamless cleanroom installation success over hundreds of builds.

As leading experts when it comes to modular cleanroom construction, the company allows clients to handpick specific elements from their core catalogue. This catalogue includes all the high caliber technology that one might expect from a cleanroom construction specialist, including furniture, components, specialty equipment such as particle counters and much more! With a comprehensive selection of leading class solutions, clients are sure to find the requisite products to meet their full array of application needs.

Begin your cleanroom construction project with Ultrapure Technology. Industry leading, qualified construction experts are a simple phone call away.

About Ultrapure Technology:

Suwanee, Georgia based Modular cleanroom specialists Ultrapure Technology are the recognized industry experts when it comes to the design, construction management and installation of high quality cleanrooms. To find out more about the organization, please go to Ultrapuretechnology.

Recover Lost Data with Active@ File Recovery

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There are many reasons and situations where you can lose important data from your computer. Sometimes, you might empty the Recycle Bin and realize sometime after that an important document, for example, was in it at the time. Sometimes, malicious software or attacks by hackers can cause data stored on your computer to mysteriously disappear. In other cases, data may be lost due to a hardware-related problem such as a failing hard disk. You may accidentally format a hard disk partition or other storage device. The possibilities go on. Fortunately, it is usually possible to retrieve lost data intact in all of these scenarios. What you need is a data recovery solution like Active@ File Recovery. This provides you with the tools you need to get your files back intact.

Active@ File Recovery presents the ultimate data recovery solution for those who need to recover a data even on deleted or damaged non-system and system partitions.

Active@ File Recovery supports all common file systems found on home computers. This also includes support for the NTFS and FAT file systems, being used in Microsoft Windows OS, HFS+ file system used on Apple computers, the exFAT file system used on some flash memory cards and USB pen drives and the EXT2 and EXT3 file systems used by Linux-based operating systems. Active@ File Recovery makes it easy to scan your hard disk or other storage media for recoverable data. It also has no limitations with regard to sector sizes or total sizes of disks. Hard disks over with capacities of over two terabytes pose absolute no problem to this file recovery software. The data recovery package also comes with a bootable disk and the Enterprise version also provides the Bootable Disk Creator utility.

Active@ File Recovery also includes the Active@ Organizer utility. This allows you to easily organize and rename files once they have been recovered. It supports many different formats and the latest version of the software also supports the newest Microsoft Office document formats. Another useful feature provided with Active@ File Recovery is its compatibility with Unicode. Many other file recovery programs cannot read deleted files which have file names other than in standard Latin letters. Active@ File Recovery, however, can understand any character from any language including languages such as Russian, Chinese or Japanese etc. The data recovery software is designed to be as versatile as possible. Advanced NTFS recovery algorithms work with MFT records, repairing damaged ones and recovering deleted or damaged records on NTFS systems.

Version 9.5 of Active@ File Recovery includes 152 driver packs for supporting a vast number of different USB 3.0, mass storage and networked devices. This makes it one of the most versatile recovery solutions out there. You can boot up from the disk image provided, minimizing the risk of further overwriting the deleted data on your media and making it unrecoverable. The drivers provided will see to it that almost any storage device will be recognized when you start the computer up, thus enabling you to recover data stored on your media.

Active@ File Recovery is the ideal solution for both novice users and IT professionals. Find out more at file-recovery.com and see what the software can do for you.

File Processing Systems

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Even the earliest business computer systems were used to process business records and produce information. They were generally faster and more accurate than equivalent manual systems. These systems stored groups of records in separate files, and so they were called file processing systems. Although file processing systems are a great improvement over manual systems, they do have the following limitations:

Data is separated and isolated.

Data is often duplicated.

Application programs are dependent on file formats.

It is difficult to represent complex objects using file processing systems. Data is separate and isolated. Recall that as the marketing manager you needed to relate sales data to customer data. Somehow you need to extract data from both the CUSTOMER and ORDER files and combine it into a single file for processing. To do this, computer programmers determine which parts of each of the files are needed. Then they determine how the files are related to one another, and finally they coordinate the processing of the files so the correct data is extracted. This data is then used to produce the information. Imagine the problems of extracting data from ten or fifteen files instead of just two! Data is often duplicated. In the record club example, a member’s name, address, and membership number are stored in both files. Although this duplicate data wastes a small amount of file space, that is not the most serious problem with duplicate data. The major problem concerns data integrity.

A collection of data has integrity if the data is logically consistent. This means, in part, that duplicated data items agree with one another. Poor data integrity often develops in file processing systems. If a member were to change his or her name or address, then all files containing that data need to be updated. The danger lies in the risk that all files might not be updated, causing discrepancies between the files. Data integrity problems are serious. If data items differ, inconsistent results will be produced. A report from one application might disagree with a report from another application. At least one of them will be incorrect, but who can tell which one? When this occurs, the credibility of the stored data comes into question. Application programs are dependent on file formats. In file processing systems, the physical formats of files and records are entered in the application programs that process the files. In COBOL, for example, file formats are written in the DATA DIVISION.

The problem with this arrangement is that changes in file formats result in program updates. For example, if the Customer record were modified to expand the ZIP Code field from five to nine digits, all programs that use the Customer record need to be modified, even if they do not use the ZIP Code field. There might be twenty programs that process the CUSTOMER file. A change like this one means that a programmer needs to identify all the affected programs, then modify and retest them. This is both time consuming and error-prone. It is also very frustrating to have to modify programs that do not even use the field whose format changed. It is difficult to represent complex objects using file processing systems. This last weakness of file processing systems may seem a bit theoretical, but it is an important shortcoming.