BACKGROUND Tourism is an important earner of foreign exchange in Jamaica; hence, the protection of the visitors' health is very important. A study of travelers to Jamaica in 1996 to 1997 found that travelers' diarrhea (TD) affected almost 25% of visitors. The Ministry of Health (Jamaica) initiated a program for the prevention and control of TD aimed at reducing attack rates from 25.0% to 12.0% ...

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity in preschool children have increased worldwide in the past two to three decades. Child Health Centers provide a key setting for monitoring growth in preschool children and preventing childhood obesity. METHODS We conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 nurses working at Child Health Centers in southwest Sweden in 2011 and 2012. All interviews were tape r...

This paper introduces a system in which the face recognition is carried out with the help of the local feature descriptors. As today face recognition is a very active area of research, a system which carries out the robust face recognition is needed to be developed. Face recognition is used in various fields of security and access control, surveillance military etc. here the system is developed...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess physicians' perceptions on a newly developed electronic transfer of care (e-TOC) communication tool and identify barriers and opportunities toward its adoption. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS The study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching center as part of a randomized controlled trial assessing the efficacy of an e-TOC communication tool. The e-...

Neocortical pyramidal cells (PCs) project to various cortical and subcortical targets. In layer V, the population of thick tufted PCs (TTCs) projects to subcortical targets such as the tectum, brainstem, and spinal cord. Another population of layer V PCs projects via the corpus callosum to the contralateral neocortical hemisphere mediating information transfer between the hemispheres. This subp...

The cytosolic carboxypeptidases (CCPs) are a subfamily of metalloenzymes within the larger M14 family of carboxypeptidases that have been implicated in the post-translational modification of tubulin. It has been suggested that at least four of the six mammalian CCPs function as tubulin deglutamylases. However, it is not yet clear whether these enzymes play redundant or unique roles within the c...

The paper by Alexandra Heath, Gerard Kelly and Mark Manning does an excellent job of extending existing models of the effects of requiring use of CCPs for OTC derivatives on counterparty risk and implications for collateral demand. The innovations include: first, considering a particular market structure where there are core institutions in the OTC markets that also trade with and provide servi...

Over the past decade, the landscape for financial market infrastructure has undergone considerable change, driven by the combined forces of technological advance, globalisation and regulatory change. National markets are commonly no longer served by a single infrastructure provider at all the stages of the trading process between execution and settlement. Emerging in its place is a more fluid e...