OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of investment in national tuberculosis programs (NTPs) on NTP performance and tuberculosis burden in 22 high-burden countries, as determined by the World Health Organization (WHO). DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING Estimates of annual tuberculosis burden and NTP performance indicators and control variables during 2002-2009 were obtained from the Organization for Economi...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is frequently regarded as a key driver of global economic integration because it brings job opportunities, capital investment, and business experience. The current study examines the impact of foreign direct investment on Afghanistan's economic growth using time-series data from 2007 to 2019, which are collected from the World Bank and the International Monetary ...

Prediction of annual average precipitation over a regin is one of important issues in watersherd management and natural resources planning. Geostatistics is one of the useful methods for precipitation prediction which varies based on type of the variable. This study was conducted in Karoon and Dez Basins located in southwertern of Iran. The data set including 20 years of annual precipitation of...

This thesis addresses the following question: How should domestic networks be reinvented to support self-management by domestic users? It takes a user-centred design approach to redesign the underlying domestic network infrastructure to better fit domestic users. The overall aim of this work is to create user-centred mechanisms to support self-management of domestic networks by domestic users. ...

external costs of environmental degradation are often ignored in economic analysis of projects. the mail goal of the paper is to economically analyze the current alternatives of meighan wetland utilization including extraction of sodium sulfate, aquaculture of artemia and integrative alternative considering external costs of wetland degradation. in order to detect eventual degradation of wetlan...

objective: spouse abuse is a major worldwide health concern and includes a wide range of emotional, physical and sexual maltreatments. the objective of present study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of spouse abuse among women who were registered with health centers in the city of sari. methods: we distributed two specifically designed questionnaires among one thousand women who...

Gridded gross domestic product (GDP) data are a crucial land surface parameter for many geoscience applications. Recently, machine learning approaches have become powerful tools in generating gridded GDP data. However, most estimation seldom consider the geographical properties of input variables. Therefore, this study, geographically weighted stacking ensemble approach was developed to generat...

Our main objective in the present study was to assess the spatial variation of chemical and physical water properties. Prior to the design of groundwater quality monitoring networks, it is essential to investigate the spatial structure of the groundwater quality variables. A case study is presented which used ground water quality observations from groundwater domestic wells in the Dameghan, Ira...