View from North America

Millennium Development Goals: update from North America.

To cite: PeacockChambers E, Silverstein M. Arch Dis Child 2015;100 (Suppl 1):s74–s75. In the past 15 years, North America made significant advances towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets despite a crippling and global financial crisis beginning in 2008. The three countries making up North America—Canada, the USA and Mexico—aspired to reach MDGs under strikingly different politica...

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America

418Antimicrobial Profile of Enterobacteriaceae from North America from 2013

Background. Enterobacteriaceae play an important role in the pathogenesis of hospital infections worldwide. The Tigecycline Evaluation Surveillance Trial (TEST) examines the susceptibility of pathogens isolated from multiple infectious processes from patients in geographically diverse populations. With the increase of antimicrobial resistance, continued surveillance and susceptibility testing o...

Outside North America

ions and first-class procedures We've seen two ways to express the square-root computation as an instance of a more general method, once as a fixed-point search and once using Newton's method. Since Newton's method was itself expressed as a fixed-point process, we actually saw two ways to compute square roots as fixed points. Each method begins with a function and finds a fixed point of some tr...