The final push

Final Leprosy Push: Out of Society

Sir, We read with great interest a letter to editor, leprosy: An urgent need to step up surveillance by Dev et al.[1] As leprosy is an old disease of social stigma, disabilities, and deformities caused by low virulent mycobacterium leprae and the disease have been eliminated at the national level in December 2005, there are still cases from various districts and blocks that make a prevalence ra...

The Final Push for Polio Eradication: Addressing the Challenge of Violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria

Seye Abimbola and colleagues provide a view from Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan on global efforts to eradicate polio in those countries. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

A monolithic integrated 18 Push - Push

A fully integrated single-ended output pushpush oscillator is realized using an advanced 0.2μm SiGe HBT process. Up to –5 dBm output power is achieved at 180 GHz using a technology with a transition frequency fT of 200 GHz and maximum oscillation frequency fMAX of 275 GHz. Preliminary phase noise measurements show a phase noise of less than –90 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset from the 180 GHz carrier.

The Big Push

Jeffrey Sachs is the economics profession’s leading advocate of mega-reform. Whether it is stabilization of hyperinflation in Bolivia, shock therapy to leap from Communism to capitalism in Poland and Russia, or a “Big Push” to end world poverty , Sachs’ recommendation throughout his career has been to do it fast, do it big, do it comprehensively, and do it with lots of Western money. Sachs’ app...

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