Thanks to the leadership of the World Health Organisation (WHO) [1], and massive financial support from programmes such as the Global Fund and the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the number of HIV-infected individuals accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings has tripled from 2001 to 2005. An estimated 1.3 million HIV-infected individuals were o...

Since our last issue was published, Canada has lost two of its giants – both global role models for leadership in the area of women’s rights and social justice. I speak, of course, of Doris Anderson and June Callwood. Dominant Canadian figures throughout the latter half of the 20th century, their words, actions and values thumped like the pulse of our national conscience, never letting us stray...

Frost & Sullivan is in its 50th year in business with a global research organization of 1,800analysts and consultants who monitor more than 300 industries and 250,000 companies. The company’s research philosophy originates with the CEO’s360-Degree PerspectiveTM, which serves as the foundation of its TEAM ResearchTM methodology. This unique approach enables us to determine how best-in-class comp...

This paper describes a Social Network Analysis toolkit to monitor an Enterprise Social Network and help analyzing informal leadership as a function of social ties and topic discussions. The toolkit has been developed in the context of a regional project, Fiordaliso, funded by Regione Lazio (a region of central Italy) and leaded by Reply, an international network of specialized companies in the ...

when the tunisian revolution triggered the domino of the collapse arab leaders, it was not anticipated to reach to syria creating a deep conflict with local, regional and trans-regional dimensions. however, when the protests speared to syria, various players try to exploit it to their own advantage, and an all-out conflict began. due to syria's geopolitical location, regional powers such as ira...

Introduction: Myocardial perfusion imaging using gated SPECT and phase analysis is an effective tool in evaluation of mechanical dyssynchrony. The purpose of this study was to determine the normal ranges of global and regional phase parameters. Methods: A total of 100 patients with normal resting and stress electrocardiograms, low pretest likelihood for c...

we have recently become aware that the office of foreign assets control (ofac) of the us department of the treasury has imposed new sanctions against iran. regulation 560.538 provides that us persons should not handle publishing services for written publications (whether journals or books) if any of the authors of the manuscript are employed by the government of iran. the government of iran is ...