Arqueologia na região serrana quilombola, Alagoas - 2008-2009

Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Lorestan, 2008-2009

Background : Tuberculosis is known as one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. 1.7 milliard people worldwide are infected with TB germs, there are 8 million new cases of TB annually, and three million deaths occur due to the disease in developing countries. Materials and Methods: This study included all the cases who had referred to all the health centers of Lorestan province with posi...

IMA Seminar Series 2008 / 2009

The Affinity Propagation algorithm is a novel clustering method proposed by Frey and Dueck in 2007 [1], which combines advantages of both affinity-based clustering (like Hierarchical algorithms) and model-based clustering (like Expectation-Maximisation). The method takes as input measures of similarity between pairs of data points and real-valued messages are exchanged between data points until...

2008 — 2009 Research Honors Program

Follicular dynamics in Serrana goats.

Twenty-two Serrana goats were studied through two successive estrous cycles in order to characterize their follicular dynamics during the breeding season. The ovaries of the goats were scanned daily by real-time ultrasonography and all follicles >or=3mm were measured and classified. The data were classified by the number of follicular waves per goat to test the hypothesis that temporal and morp...

The Cholera Epidemic in Zimbabwe, 2008–2009

The 2008–2009 Zimbabwe cholera epidemic resulted in 98,585 reported cases and caused more than 4,000 deaths. In this study, we used a mixed-methods approach that combined primary qualitative data from a 2008 Physicians for Human Rights-led investigation with a systematic review and content analysis of the scientific literature. Our initial investigation included semi-structured interviews of 92...