Monitoring and prediction of an epidemic outbreak using syndromic observations

Monitoring and prediction of an epidemic outbreak using syndromic observations.

The paper presents a method for syndromic surveillance of an epidemic outbreak due to an emerging disease, formulated in the context of stochastic nonlinear filtering. The dynamics of the epidemic is modeled using a stochastic compartmental epidemiological model with inhomogeneous mixing. The syndromic (typically non-medical) observations of the number of infected people (e.g. visits to pharmac...

an investigation into translation of cultural concepts by beginner and advance student using think – aloud protocols

this research aims at answering the questions about translation problems and strategies applied by translators when translating cultural concepts. in order to address this issue, qualitative and quantitative study were conducted on two groups of subjects at imam reza international university of mashhad. these two groups were assigned as beginner and advanced translation students (10 students). ...

an investigation of the impact of self monitoring on langauge teachers motivational practice and its effect on learners motivation

the central purpose of this study was to conduct a case study about the role of self monitoring in teacher’s use of motivational strategies. furthermore it focused on how these strategies affected students’ motivational behavior. although many studies have been done to investigate teachers’ motivational strategies use (cheng & d?rnyei, 2007; d?rnyei & csizer, 1998; green, 2001, guilloteaux & d?...

An Outbreak of Epidemic Dropsy

Chopra et al. (1939) showed, by a controlled feeding experiment in man, that argemone oil (expressed from the seeds of a weed Argemone mexicana) produces symptoms resembling those of epidemic dropsy. In this experiment five individuals, who ate food cooked in mustard oil containing known quantities of argemone oil, developed well-marked oedema and two of them showed the characteristic flushed a...

An Outbreak of Epidemic Jaundice