BACKGROUND As the Millennium Development Goals ended, and were replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals, efforts have been made to evaluate the achievements and performance of official development assistance (ODA) in the health sector. In this study, we explore trends in the expansion of water and sanitation coverage in developing countries and the performance of ODA. DESIGN We explored ...

In a nutshell Flexi-curity is not only a buzz-word, but drives the policy agenda of the EU. Therefore it is important to know about what we talk when we talk about the term. What is at stake is some shift from employment protection towards social protection. In other words, some of the risk/uncertainty management linked to labour markets in an era of globalisation is to be put on broader should...

1. prIME Oncology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2. prIME Oncology, The Hague, Netherlands; University of Sheffield, Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, UK 3. Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France 4. Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 5. Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands 6. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy 7. Ludwig Center...

Broadly considered, the field of cooperative decision and control covers those interdisciplinary methods that can be used for the operation of semi-autonomous agents deployed to achieve a common objective. By joint exploiting the agents’ capabilities, it is expected that the combined effort of the team can exceed the sum of its parts. Harnessing this potential benefit is however challenging due...

The importance of the investigation of nonlinear dynamical properties (NDPs) of the atmospheric photochemical systems (PCSs) was demonstrated in ref. 1 and 2 (A. M. Feigin and I. B. Konovalov, J. Geophys. Res., 1996, 101 (D20), 26038; 1. B. Konovalov, A. M. Feigin and A. Y. Mukhina, J. Geophys. Res., 1999, 104 (D3), 3669). The only known way to study NDPs of any natural dynamical system (includ...

主に,農 薬あるいは船底や漁網の防汚塗料などとして 用 いられてきた トリフ ェニル錫や トリブ チ ル 錫化合物 は,そ の毒性が問題 とな り近 年,「化学物質の審査及び 製造等の規制に関する法律」に基づ き指定化学物質 とさ れ1),そ の使用や製造などが大幅に制限されてきた.しか しなが ら,そ れ らの環境汚染は まだみ られて い る2).ま た他国においては職業性 の中毒例 も報告 されている3). われわれは,そ れ らの生体影響や生体内挙動の解明を目 的 とし微量測定法の確立,さ らにそれを基に生体中での 代謝な どについて報告 して きた4,5).これ まで有機錫化 合物の代謝 についての報告は主に トリ体 に関するものが 多 く,そ れ らに比べ,ジ 体についての情報は少 な い6). そ こで本研究では,ト リフェニル錫 の代謝産物の一つで あるジフ ェニル錫...

Palladium-catalyzed N-tert-prenylations of indoles, tricarbonylchromium-activated indoles, and indolines that occur in high yields (up to 94%) with high tert-prenyl-to-n-prenyl selectivity (up to 12:1) are reported.

this paper describes an approximating solution, based on lagrange interpolation and spline functions, to treat functional integral equations of fredholm type and volterra type. this method can be extended to functional dierential and integro-dierential equations. for showing eciency of the method we give some numerical examples.

in this paper, the dierential transform method (dtm) is applied to the fisherequation. this method can be used to obtain the exact solutions of fisherequation. finally, we give some examples to illustrate the suciency of themethod for solving such nonlinear partial dierential equations. these resultsshow that this technique is easy to apply.