The Global Vaccine Action Plan includes a goal of meeting global and regional measles and rubella elimination targets, noting that such efforts should not operate in silos but be coordinated with other immunization efforts. Similarly, the Global Measles and Rubella Strategic Plan for 2012-2020 emphasizes the need for integrated approaches to achieve and maintain very high levels of population i...

INTRODUCTION All six WHO regions currently have goals for measles elimination by 2020. Measles vaccination is delivered via routine immunization programmes, which in most sub-Saharan African countries reach children around 9months of age, and supplementary immunization activities (SIAs), which target a wider age range at multi-annual intervals. In the absence of endemic measles circulation, the...

I would like to congratulate the authors who contributed the article “Comparison of astigmatism following manual small incision cataract surgery: superior versus temporal approach,” which was published in Nepal J Ophthalmol 2012; 4(7):54-58. As one who follows new discussions in the field of cataract and refractive surgery with great interest, I absolutely agree with the authors that the resear...

The field of socially intelligent agents (SIA) is a fast growing and increasingly important area that comprises highly active research activities and strongly interdisciplinary approaches. It is characterized by agent systems that show human style social intelligence. SIA systems are different from multi-agent systems, which are often only loosely related to human social intelligence or use ver...

A detailed calculation of the finite temperature dynamic structure function of the free Bose gas is presented and discussed. After a short derivation of the expressions describing the exact response S(q,ω;T ) and the impulse approximation (IA) SIA(q,ω; t), their main properties and their evolution with q and T are analyzed. The lowest order energy weighted sum rules of both S(q,ω;T ) and SIA(q,...

BACKGROUND The Measles & Rubella Initiative, a broad consortium of global health agencies, has provided support to measles-burdened countries, focusing on sustaining high coverage of routine immunization of children and supplementing it with a second dose opportunity for measles vaccine through supplemental immunization activities (SIAs). We estimate optimal scheduling of SIAs in countries with...

English. In this work we explore the possibility of training a neural network to classify and rank idiomatic expressions under constraints of data scarcity. We discuss our results comparing them both to other unsupervised models designed to perform idiom detection and to similar supervised classifiers trained to detect metaphoric bigrams. Italiano. In questo lavoro esploriamo la possibilità di ...

The nature of endogenous acceptor molecules implicated in the membrane-directed synthesis of the polysialic acid (polySia) capsule in Escherichia coli K1 serotypes is not known. The capsule contains at least 200 sialic acid (Sia) residues that are elongated by the addition of new Sia residues to the nonreducing termini of growing nascent chains (Rohr, T. E., and Troy, F. A. (1980) J. Biol. Chem...