OBJECTIVES Combination packages for HIV prevention can leverage the effectiveness of biomedical and behavioural elements to lower disease incidence with realistic targets for individual and population risk reduction. We investigated how sexual network structures can maximise the effectiveness of a package targeting sexually active adults in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with intervention components ...

The tourism industry has reported dramatic changes in its structure over the last few years, not least due to the emerge of the Internet. Among others, tourists want to find products which are tailored to their personal needs in a minimum of time, without having to navigate through all the products offered by the tourism information system. Thus, from the tourism information supplier ́s point of...

In this demo, we present PACKAGEBUILDER, a system that extends database systems to support package queries. A package is a collection of tuples that individually satisfy base constraints and collectively satisfy global constraints. The need for package support arises in a variety of scenarios: For example, in the creation of meal plans, users are not only interested in the nutritional content o...

lectronic systems with the increased functionality and speed required in today’s advanced applications are placing a performance burden on the interconnection and packaging technologies that standard electrical “wiring” approaches simply cannot support. Engineering staff at APL recognized this trend several years ago, and in a collaborative effort with The Johns Hopkins University Department of...

Reusable experience packages aim to promote and diffuse knowledge rapidly and economically. The distribution can take place within the organization that produced the experience package or it may allow exporting knowledge from the organization producing the package to other ones [1, 2, 3]. This work analyses an experience related to knowledge transfer from a University research lab (Software Eng...

Six packages for solving mixed model equations and estimating variance components by REML are compared. Each has a unique strength. Meticulously finished DFREML is the only one that implements hypothesis testing for variance component estimates. MTDFREML is a comprehensive, relatively easy to install and simple to use package for analyses of experimental data. PEST, the only semi-commercial pro...