Tuberculosis (TB) case notification rates in Vietnam have stabilized since 2000, but in 2007 were increasing among young adults. The emerging HIV epidemic only partly explains this increase. Other factors are probably involved. We aimed to assess whether rural-to-urban migration is such a factor. We conducted a case-control study at district TB units (DTUs) in Da Nang province, Vietnam, recruit...

Organizations increasingly depend on virtual teams, in which interaction and collaboration takes place among geographically-distributed, and often culturally-disparate individuals. Often these teams are globally dispersed, following the patterns created by multinational firms, global alliances, and international trade. Yet, it is by no means guaranteed that virtual teams will be a success, and ...

Publish/subscribe infrastructures, specifically event notification services, are used as the basic communication and integration framework in many application domains. The majority of these services, however, provide poor or no extension mechanisms as well as insufficient configuration capabilities. As a consequence, different event notification servers have been developed previously to support...

This paper presents AREA, an integrated synchronous and asynchronous notification service for awareness information. AREA uses a semantic model of the client applications to support cross-application awareness. The service is based on the dichotomy of interest and privacy Notifications of user activities are a function of relevance in the current work situation and the privacy requirements of t...

1. All candidates for certification / re-certification must have an active, unencumbered license as an LPN/LVN in the United States or a U.S. territory. 1. Candidates with probationary licenses may apply for a special review of circumstances. See www.napnes.org/certifications for complete details. 2. All certifications will be for a period of three years. This does not effect any currently cert...

CONTEXT A recent outbreak of syphilis among users of an Internet chat room challenged traditional methods of partner notification and community education because locating information on sexual partners was limited to screen names and privacy concerns precluded identifying sexual partners through the Internet service provider. OBJECTIVES To determine the association of Internet use and acquisi...

Objective: To overview the epidemiological profile for Zika in MG and map its spatial diffusion from 2015 (onset of outbreak) to 2019. Method: this is a descriptive observational study based on three secondary databases: Disease Notification System (SINAN), Brazilian Institute Geography Statistics (IBGE) Health Surveillance Secretariat Minas Gerais State (SVS-SES/MG). The confirmed cases was ge...

Greenstone is a software for creating and maintaining distributed digital library collections. It provides a sophisticated federation mechanism for the collections. In order to support alerting notification about changes in the distributed collections, we propose a distributed directory service for the management of the distributed Greenstone installations. The Greenstone directory service (GDS...