Population migration plays a critical role in the spread of disease by initiating outbreaks of acute diseases, changing the prevalence of infectious diseases at a given location, and changing the face of chronic disease resulting from previous infection. This article focuses on the recent demographic changes in North America that have facilitated the introduction and spread of new microbial thr...

Introduction: The Serology section of the Microbiology Department performs Rubella immunity screening mainly from antenatal patients and staff health clinics, with a small number of tests being performed for the diagnosis of Rubella infection. Since the implementation of the NSW Department of Health Circular 2003/91 “Occupational Screening and Vaccination against Infectious Diseases”, the numbe...

Molecular epidemiology is an emerging science. The development of new and rapid protocols to isolate and identify pathogens, coupled with the sophisticated phylogenetic analysis of their gene sequences, is providing a new and fascinating insight into the biology, origin and spread of infectious diseases. In this essay, I describe some of the ways in which the techniques of modern molecular biol...

BACKGROUND About a third of the countries affected by shortage of human resources for health are the emerging market economies (EMEs). The greatest shortage in absolute terms was found to be in India and Indonesia leading to health system crisis. This review identifies the patterns of migration of health workers, causes and possible solutions in these EMEs. METHODS A qualitative synthesis app...

In this chapter, we present some emerging directions in bifurcation control in continuous-time dynamical systems. Specifically we discuss two unconventional bifurcation control problems: anti-control of bifurcations and nonsmooth bifurcation control. Anti-control of bifurcation means introducing a new bifurcation at desired location with preferred properties by appropriate control. Nonsmooth bi...

I wish to lay out the emerging trends in law and economics as a call to give up what was so appealing about the first wave of law and economics – namely the illusion of resolution, certainty and mastery over complex legal issues – in favour of greater partiality, imperfection, and multiplicity, but also greater wisdom. The emerging law and economics – what I am calling the second wave of law an...

emerging technologies such as biotheraputics are widely view as the source of new types of competitive advantage. despite their huge potential gaining advantages from these technologies requires adopting different types of managerial skills and insight than those utilized in the context of incremental improvements. this makes established firms particularly vulnerable to the challenges of these ...

Providing a customized support for the OLAP brings tremendous challenges to the OLAP technology. Standing at the crossroads of the preferences and the data warehouse, two emerging trends are pointed out; namely: (i) the personalization and (ii) the recommendation. Although the panoply of the proposed approaches, the user-centric data warehouse community issues have not been addressed yet. In th...