| December 2014 | 1207 in 1995. To achieve eradication, a country should be free of indigenous cases for three consecutive years. Precertification stage will be reached after completion of one complete year free of indigenous case of Guinea worm disease (one incubation period for D. medinensis). An indigenous case is defined as infection occurring in a person exhibiting a skin lesion or lesions...

This study investigates whether Australian targets manage their earnings during takeover bids. A sample of 65 firm-years that were subject to takeover offers during the period 1999-2003 is selected. Each treatment firm-year is matched by industry and size with a control firm-year not subject to a takeover bid. Three Discretionary Accruals models are used: the DeAngelo (1986) model, the Jones (1...

Abstract Drought is an anomaly from normal climatic conditions, which affects most of the zones worldwide. monitoring a very crucial step to detect drought vulnerable and raise awareness about future development. The present study aimed investigate efficiency indicators: standardized precipitation index (SPI) Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) spatially description conditions Babylon gove...

Abstract The steep increase in incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma white populations mainly applies to thin lesions with good survival suggesting overdiagnosis. Based on population‐based cancer registries (CRs), we have investigated changes aggressive melanoma, selecting only cases who died within 1 or 3 years after diagnosis 11 European countries between 1995 and 2012. Trends fatal were ...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate mental health of tehran university students who were admitted in academic year 1994-95. for this study, 2321 student out of the total number of 4100 were randomly selected. these students were requested to fill general health questionnaire-12 (ghq-12) as well as personal information questionnaire. the results of testing hypothesis of this research showe...

Consumption of sport-caught fish from the Great Lakes is a recognized source of human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Understanding temporal changes in PCB body burden is crucial for evaluating exposure levels and augmenting validity of studies investigating their relationship to adverse health effects. Using data collected from 1980 to 1995, we evaluated longitudinal changes in s...