Morphological Concept in Evaluating Riverbank Slum Settlement Programs in Kotalama Malang

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

Evaluating Training Programs

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Strategizing Slum Improvement in India: A Method to Monitor and Refocus Slum Development Programs

Multiplex PCR-based detection of Leptospira in environmental water samples obtained from a slum settlement.

The aim of this study was to apply a molecular protocol to detect leptospiral DNA in environmental water samples. The study was carried out in a peri-urban settlement in Petrópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro. A multiplex PCR method employing the primers LipL32 and 16SrRNA was used. Three out of 100 analysed samples were positive in the multiplex PCR, two were considered to have saprophytic leptos...

Mortality Trends Observed in Population-Based Surveillance of an Urban Slum Settlement, Kibera, Kenya, 2007–2010

BACKGROUND We used population based infectious disease surveillance to characterize mortality rates in residents of an urban slum in Kenya. METHODS We analyzed biweekly household visit data collected two weeks before death for 749 cases who died during January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010. We also selected controls matched by age, gender and having a biweekly household visit within two weeks ...