TRIAL DESIGN Trachoma is targeted for global elimination. Infection rates with Chlamydia trachomatis are higher in new arrivals to a community and in travelers who leave for extended periods, suggesting they are sources of re-infection. This community-randomized, clinical trial was designed to determine if a surveillance program that targeted newcomers and travelers, identified weekly, would re...

Certain members of society are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 crisis and added strain being placed on already overextended health care systems. In this article, we focus refugee newcomers. We outline vulnerabilities newcomers face in context COVID-19, including barriers to accessing services, disproportionate rates mental concerns, financial constraints, racism, higher likelihoods ...

Global migration has led to increasing numbers of children encountering schools as newcomers in their new countries. Statistics reveal that large groups migrant tend perform poorly a...

A N EFFECTIVE teacher is perhaps the most important factor in producing consistently high levels of student achievement. Thus the profession must see to it that teachers are continually learning throughout their careers, and that process begins with those newest to the profession. A new teacher induction program can acculturate those newcomers to the idea that professional learning must be a li...

Each year, more than 200,000 persons arrive in Canada seeking to make a new home here. They form part of a growing transnational flow of individuals, goods, services, information, and ideas that characterize a globalized world. Canada needs these newcomers and has a strong interest in ensuring their settlement, including labour market integration, access to education, and civic participation. N...

We present a new automated cluster search algorithm, stressing its advantages relatively to others available in the literature. Applying it to the photometric data of the ESO Imaging Survey (EIS, Renzini & da Costa 1997) allowed us to produce, with a high degree of confidence, a new catalogue of cluster candidates up to z ≃ 1.1.