Increasing tuberculosis burden in Latin America: an alarming trend for global control efforts

development and implementation of an optimized control strategy for induction machine in an electric vehicle

in the area of automotive engineering there is a tendency to more electrification of power train. in this work control of an induction machine for the application of electric vehicle is investigated. through the changing operating point of the machine, adapting the rotor magnetization current seems to be useful to increase the machines efficiency. in the literature there are many approaches wh...

Epidemiology in Latin America: an opportunity for a global dialogue.

Until recently, most European, North American and Australasian epidemiologists knew Latin America as a region of the world that produced both great football teams and hazardous military dictatorships (although the North Americans may not have known much about the football teams). In addition, it was a region that we had to fly over the top of in order to meet each other in New York, London or S...

Recent tuberculosis advances in Latin America.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Tuberculosis kills more people than any other infection. Despite advances in diagnostic methods and greater understanding of the reasons for treatment failure, tuberculosis remains common throughout Latin America. RECENT FINDINGS The impact of HIV and multidrug resistance on tuberculosis control has been enormous. HIV-positive patients may be at 10 times greater risk of mult...

Latin America in a Changing Global Environment

World TB Day 2016--advancing global tuberculosis control efforts.

Since the WHO declared tuberculosis a global health emergency in 1993, important strides have been made in global tuberculosis control efforts. Tuberculosis associated mortality has halved and 45 million lives have been saved. Despite these advances, an estimated 9·6 million people developed tuberculosis worldwide in 2014, of whom 1·5 million died. Of the estimated 480 000 cases of multidrug-re...