Abstract This paper examines factors affecting happiness using panel data concerning 58 countries during 2003-2011. Happiness data come in the form of answers to questions such as "How happy are you as a whole in your life?" and the answers range from 1 to 5transformed to obtain a 1-10 scale. Macroeconomics data are from MIT and World Bank 2012 tables. Including 215 total pool observations indi...

BACKGROUND We assessed the persistence of hemagglutinin inhibition (HAI) antibodies and the vaccine efficacy (VE) of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3) following vaccination of a cohort of pregnant South African women during a second influenza season. METHODS A cohort of women who participated in a randomized placebo-controlled trial on the safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of I...

A 2-year tsetse field survey was conducted in Kajo-keji County South Sudan to determine factors influencing the seasonal abundance of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes. A total of 13,323 tsetse flies of both sexes were collected in the dry and wet seasons. Dry season catches were significantly higher than those of the wet season (DF = 10, t (2011) = 3.477, P (2011) = 0.006; DF = 10, t (2012) = 7.943, ...

Since Iijima discovered carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in 1991, many unique physical and electrical properties of CNTs have gradually been uncovered. CNTs have exceptionally high Youngâ€TMs modulus, stiffness and flexibility, and are electrically conductive with a greater diamagnetic susceptibility than graphite. Carbon nanotubes are pseudo-one-dimensional carbon allotropes of high aspect ratio, high ...

Enhanced influenza surveillance was implemented to analyze transmission dynamics particularly driving force of influenza transmission in a community during 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons in Odate City, Japan. In these two consecutive seasons, influenza A(H3N2) was the predominant influenza A subtype. Suspected influenza cases were tested by commercial rapid test kits. Demographic and epidemiologic...

‘Sadumuk batuk sanyari bumi, ditohi pati’ is a Javanese proverb that implies land sacred to someone and some are even willing sacrifice their lives own land. The aims of this article include knowing the factors trigger conflicts in Lampung, describing types agrarian Lampung 2011-2012, parties issues conflict. methodology literature study form books, journals, research reports, observations, new...