OBJECTIVES The re-emergence of community-based health workers such as the auxiliary midwives (AMWs) in Myanmar, who are local female volunteers, has been an important strategy to address global health workforce shortages. The Myanmar government recommends one AMW for every village. The aim of this study is to investigate the current knowledge of critical danger signs and practices for safe chil...

A key motivation for multi-disciplinary collaborations is the inclusion of data and knowledge from contributing disciplines for the further development of existing models. The objective of this research is to evaluate the potential of using drought information from the European Drought Observatory (EDO) to complement the forest fire danger assessment of the European Forest Fire Information Syst...

The history of attempts to secure computer systems against threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data is briefly surveyed, and the danger of repeating a portion of that history is noted. Areas needing research attention are highlighted, and a new approach to developing certified systems is described.