Is global elimination of HCV realistic?

Is HCV elimination possible in prison?

Chagas disease: moving towards global elimination.

The WHO Global Network for Chagas Elimination was launched in July, 2007, to coordinate global eff orts to eliminate this neglected disease in the next 3 years. Jean Jannin, coordinator of the initiative at WHO’s neglected tropical diseases unit (Geneva, Switzerland) told TLID that the target date of 2010 is “perhaps optimistic” but he hopes the project will substantially reduce the global burd...

Global Range Encoding for Efficient Partition Elimination

Skipping mechanisms have been extensively studied to improve query performance over large data volumes. A powerful skipping technique for in-memory columnar databases is partition elimination. The goal is to eliminate, as much as possible, loading physically partitioned data into memory and probing column partitions against queries. This is achieved by consulting column partition summaries. The...

Global lessons from India's poliomyelitis elimination campaign.

a The INCLEN Trust International, 2nd floor, F 1/5, Okhla Industrial Area, Phase I, New Delhi 110020, India. b University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. c Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Correspondence to Narendra K Arora (e-mail: [email protected]). (Submitted: 22 September 2009 – Revised version received: 12 ...

Realistic Rescheduling: Is It Achievable?

Predictive scheduling methodologies are aimed at addressing the generation of production agendas, while assuming that all activities and resources are given and there is no uncertainty in their behavior. However, experience demonstrates that there are intrinsically uncertain parameters and that industrial environments frequently face unexpected events that force schedulers to update agendas ove...