Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress

Progress in Global Surgery; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, deve...

Molecular mechanisms for constitutional chromosomal rearrangements in humans.

Cytogenetic imbalance in the newborn is a frequent cause of mental retardation and birth defects. Although aneuploidy accounts for the majority of imbalance, structural aberrations contribute to a significant fraction of recognized chromosomal anomalies. This review describes the major classes of constitutional, structural cytogenetic abnormalities and recent studies that explore the molecular ...

Measuring Global Educational Progress

Progress in Global Mental Health for Elders

Global progress for dynamically interleaved multiparty sessions

A multiparty session forms a unit of structured interactions among many participants which follow a prescribed scenario specified as a global type signature. When a distributed protocol is engaged in two or more specifications simultaneously, sessions following distinct global types can be interleaved and can interfere at runtime also through the channel delegation operation. Previous work on m...