The correlation between ICT-supported education system and economic development of a developing country has been documented by several studies (Anderson, 2009; Selwood et al, 2003; and Unwin, 2009). Today’s Information and Communications Technology can significantly and positively impact the educational and economic landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This paper investigates ho...

Redefining shared sanitation Thilde Rheinländer, Flemming Konradsen, Bernard Keraita, Patrick Apoya & Margaret Gyapong a Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. b Africa Sanitation Think Tank, 03 BP 7112, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso. c Dodowa Health Research Center and School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Co...

OBJECTIVES To assess the use of the Voluntary Step Execution Test to identify fallers. DESIGN Cross-sectional retrospective. SETTING Two self-care, residential facilities. PARTICIPANTS a total of 100 healthy old volunteers (mean age = 78.4 +/- 5.7). MEASUREMENTS The study investigated the use of the Voluntary Step Execution Test to identify fallers under single and dual-task conditions....

We discuss the possibility of using future high–intensity low–energy neutrino beams for precision tests of the Standard Model. In particular we consider the determination of the electroweak mixing angle from elastic and quasi–elastic neutrino–nucleon scattering at a superbeam or β–beam. 1. The High–Intensity Frontier and Neu-trino Beams The search for new physics beyond the standard model in th...

Editorials Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge? Citation style for this article: Suetens C. Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge?. At the same time, healthcare systems are striving for cost optimi-sation, which results, among other things, in shorter hospital stays and early ...