This paper examines the development of ten villages along the Mekong River in Laos during the period 1994 to 2001. These villages have been sampled two times, the first in the period 1994-1997 and the second in 2001. I look at changes in production, economic conditions, and the general well-being of the households. General trends points to a strengthening of the Laotian economy. The governments...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease is a major neglected tropical disease with deep socio-economical effects throughout Central and South America. Vector control programs have consistently reduced domestic populations of triatomine vectors, but non-domiciliated vectors still have to be controlled efficiently. Designing control strategies targeting these vectors is challenging, as it requires a quantitati...

Instant messaging and presence-systems have long been popular in the “fixed” Internet world with tens of millions of PC users. The success has come despite the heterogeneous environment of multiple incompatible IM systems. In the mobile domain, however, instant messaging and presence is a relatively young thing. Hoping to avoid fragmentation in mobile IM and presence, Wireless Village was forme...

Blood examination was conducted for the four Gidra-speaking village groups in Papua New Guinea, who were characterized by high Fe intake and high malaria prevalence with marked inter-village differences. The northern riverine villagers, whose Fe intake was higher than the other three village groups, did not suffer from Fe-deficiency anaemia in their malaria-endemic environment; nor did the inla...

Concentrations of copper (Cu), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg), and arsenic (As) were measured in arid agricultural and irrigated agricultural soils collected in Daba Village, Shajiawuan Village, Gangou Village and Sifangwu Village, located in central Gansu Province, China. Concentrations except Hg and Pb were lower than the background values in grey calcareous soil in the selected arid ...

The epidemic of lung cancer in Xuanwei City, China, remains serious despite the reduction of the risk of indoor air pollution through citywide stove improvement. The main objective of this study was to characterize the influences of topography on the spatiotemporal variations of lung cancer mortality in Xuanwei during 1990-2013. Using the spatially empirical Bayes method, the smoothed mortality...

It takes a village: supporting inquiryand equityoriented computer science pedagogy through a professional learning community Jean Ryoo, Joanna Goode & Jane Margolis To cite this article: Jean Ryoo, Joanna Goode & Jane Margolis (2016): It takes a village: supporting inquiryand equity-oriented computer science pedagogy through a professional learning community, Computer Science Education, DOI: 10...

In this paper, we describe the design and technology of Village Voices, an adaptive serious game designed to support children in learning about conflict resolution. Relying on experiential learning as an underlying learning philosophy, Village Voices puts players in the role of interdependent villagers who need to work through the various conflicts that arise in the game world. To gradually ear...

BACKGROUND During the 2014-16 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the Magburaka Ebola Management Centre (EMC) operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, identified that available district maps lacked up-to-date village information to facilitate timely implementation of EVD control strategies. In January 2015, we undertook a survey in chiefdoms within the MSF...