The main goal of this work is to provide an analysis methodology for assessment of water scarcity problems based on supply and demand. To this end, we must first determine what can be considered as supply and demand in the water scarcity problem. Although some variables involved are physical, economical or demographical, in our approach social factors are also included. This leads us to objecti...

BACKGROUND Cryptococcusgattii infections are being reported in the United States (US) with increasing frequency. Initially, US reports were primarily associated with an ongoing C. gattii outbreak in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) states of Washington and Oregon, starting in 2004. However, reports of C. gattii infections in patients from other US states have been increasing since 2009. Whether this...

The theme of the parables of the Lost Sheep and Lost Coin continue in the parable of the Lost Son, though now we have a longer, more personal story with three main characters. In this parable, the younger of two sons becomes unsettled with life on the family estate and requests his share of the inheritance, only to squander it recklessly in a foreign land. Upon his return home he is welcomed an...

It is an assumption of most models of syntax that phonological features are not present during syntactic derivations, thus cannot influence syntactic structure (cf. Pullum & Zwicky 1986, 1988 ). A process that might challenge such an assumption is phonologically determined agreement, where phonological and not syntactic or semantic features agree across elements in a clause or discourse. Such a...

A little personal history first. In 1971, at the invitation of la Commission française pour l’unesco, I took part in a colloque at the Centre national d'études spatiales on the use of satellites for education. We or some in the colloque were expecting them to revolutionise education. A few years later, instructional television, pioneered at the Ecole Normale St Cloud and further afield in Niger...

We investigate the relation between mobile phone usage and regional economic development in Côte d’Ivoire. Most previous studies on mobile phone communication focused on developed countries. Their results may be difficult to extend to developing countries. Here we study mobile communication in a developing nation, namely Côte d’Ivoire. Our main motivations are, first, that the effects of inform...

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of income: a change in the remuneration rates of observed and unobserved earnings determinants, a change in occupational preferences, and a change in the...

In coastal areas, hydrodynamic factors make changes in shorelines geomorphology. This can affect coastal facilities and cause hazards to human societies in the areas. This study has investigated the influence of wave and tide properties on Khamir Port, Hormoz Strait in coast of Persian Gulf. The purpose of the study is to make a mathematical regional and local modeling of water level fluctuatio...

!30 years of age are at higher risk of developing acute hepatitis A than are those aged 140 years (OR, 5.5; 95% CI, 1.2– 23.3). Patients who acquired HIV infection during sex had higher rates of natural hepatitis A immunity than did those who acquired HIV infection parenterally (61% vs. 38%; ). P p .13 These data support the recommendation of hepatitis A vaccination for patients with HIV infect...