In March 2014 an outbreak of measles commenced in a small religious school attended by around 350 children from families with extremely low MMR vaccination uptake. Within 4 weeks almost 400 cases were observed within the 1200 member congregation. Only four cases occurred unlinked to the congregation. While importations of measles into Canada are expected and rapid spread is possible in unimmuni...

A . Uniform sequential continuity, a property classically equivalent to uniform continuity on compact sets, is shown, constructively, to be a consequence of strong continuity on a metric space. It is then shown that in the case of a separable metric space, in order to omit the word sequential from this result, it is necessary and sufficient to adopt a principle (BD-N) that is independent of Hey...

PURPOSE We wanted to explore the context of help seeking for reproductive and nonreproductive health concerns by urban adolescent girls. METHODS We undertook a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of African American and Latina girls (n = 22) aged 13 to 19 years attending public high schools in the Bronx, NY. RESULTS Before the onset of sexual activity, most girls meet health needs w...

At the moment we realize that the world will face major changes in land use in the coming decades. Agricultural production will need to meet the needs of the world population which is expected to double to 12 billion, and to meet the increasing demand as a result of continued economic growth and consumer demands. Agriculture needs to meet this rising demand on less land, with less resources suc...

Methods MMR seroprevalence and IgG-levels were retrospectively determined in 418 JIA patients aged 1–22 years of whom a stored sample was available. Clinical data and vaccination status were recorded. Sera were tested by ELISA. MMR serology of JIA patients was compared to 1989 agematched healthy controls (HC), in which serology had been previously determined. Analyses were adjusted for age and ...

Neural conversation systems, typically using sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models, are showing promising progress recently. However, traditional seq2seq suffer from a severe weakness: during beam search decoding, they tend to rank universal replies at the top of the candidate list, resulting in the lack of diversity among candidate replies. Maximum Marginal Relevance (MMR) is a ranking algorit...