Launch of the global leprosy mapping initiative- mapping priorities to achieve leprosy targets

International Leprosy Association Global Project on the History of Leprosy.

The Global Campaign to Eliminate Leprosy

A lthough leprosy is no longer a health problem in developed countries, it continues to affect millions of people in large parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Effective chemotherapeutic treatments are available that have reduced the global disease burden dramatically, but there remain important challenges to fi ghting and controlling the disease. Leprosy is a chronic infection of the skin...

the effect of vocabulary instruction through semantic mapping on learning and recall of efl learners

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Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities.

Global efforts to conserve biodiversity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., "ecosystem services"). However, regions for which conservation benefits both biodiversity and ecosystem services cannot be identified unless ecosystem services can be quantified and valued and their areas of production mapped. Here we review the theory, data, and analyses needed to produce s...

the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on the vocabulary retention among iranian intermediate efl learners

this study was an attempt to investigate and compare the effect of lexical inferencing and concept mapping on developing vocabulary retention of iranian language learners. sixty homogeneous students from different intact classes who were being taught as intermediate learners in sokhan english institute participated in this study. they were in different classes. a teacher made test as a pre-test...