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South America
No full textSouth America is a large and heterogeneous subcontinent that extends from 12°27′ north to 53°54′ south, islands excluded from consideration, and from 34°77′ west to 81°19′ west, islands also excluded. Its landmass is of 17,840,000 km2 (6,890,000 mi2), or almost 3.5% of the Earth's surface, with a population of roughly 370 million. The intense urbanization occurred during the twentieth century and still ongoing, as well as increasing migration has contributed to the present distribution of infectious disease in the subcontinent. Although there has been significant improvement in the health conditions, several infectious diseases are still endemic and epidemic in South America. Their distribution is far from homogeneous and considerable differences in disease surveillance account for much of this distribution. © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.290308World Tourism Organization. Tourism Highlights 2009 (2010) Edition., , http://www.unwto.org/facts/eng/pdf/highlights/UNWTO_Highlights09_en_HR.pdf, Available from Accessed September 15Antinori, S., Galimberti, L., Gianelli, E., Prospective observational study of fever in hospitalized returning travelers and migrants from tropical areas, 1997-2001 (2004) J Travel Med, 11, pp. 135-42Wilson, M.E., Weld, L.H., Boggild, A., Fever in returned travelers: results from GeoSentinel Surveillance Network (2007) Clin Infect Dis, 44, pp. 1560-8Freedman, D.O., Weld, L.H., Kozarsky, P.E., Spectrum of disease and relation to place of exposure among ill returned travelers (2006) N Engl J Med, 354, pp. 119-30an American Health Organization. Epidemiological Alert: Update on Dengue Outbreaks in the Americas (September 8 2010) (2010), http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3409&Itemid=2206, Available from, Accessed September 8Askling, H.H., Lesko, B., Vene, S., Serologic analysis of returned travelers with fever, Sweden (2009) Emerg Infect Dis, 15, pp. 1805-8Ansart, S., Perez, L., Vergely, O., Danis, M., Bricaire, F., Caumes, E., Illnesses in travelers returning from the tropics: a prospective study of 622 patients (2005) J Travel Med, 12, pp. 312-18Bastos, C.J., Aras, R., Mota, G., Clinical outcomes of thirteen patients with acute Chagas disease acquired through oral transmission from two urban outbreaks in Northeastern Brazil (2010) PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 15, pp. e711Pereira, K.S., Schimidt, F.L., Barbosa, R.L., Transmission of Chagas disease (American Trypanosomiasis) by food (2010) Adv Food Nutr Res, 59, pp. 63-85Miles, M.A., Orally acquired Chagas disease: lessons from an urban outbreak (2010) J Infect Dis, 201, pp. 1282-4Guzmán, M.G., Kouri, G., Dengue: an update (2001) Lancet Infect Dis, 2, pp. 33-42Halstead, S.B., Dengue (2007) Lancet, 370, pp. 1644-52Suaya J.A Shepard, D.S., Siqueira, J.B., Cost of dengue cases in eight countries in the Americas and Asia: a prospective study (2009) Am J Trop Med Hyg, 80, pp. 846-55Barnett, E.D., Yellow fever: epidemiology and prevention (2007) Clin Infect Dis, 44, pp. 850-6World Health Organization. Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria-2nd edn (2010) Geneva: WHOGabastou, J.M., Agudelo, C.I., Brandileone, M.C.C., Caracterización de aislaminetos invasivos de S. pneumoniae,Hinfluenzae y N. meningitidis en America Latina y el Caribe: SIREVA II, 2000-2005 (2008) Pan Am J Public Health, 24, pp. 1-15Agudelo, C.I., Castañeda, E., Corso, A., Resistencia a antibióticos no betalactamicos de aislamientos invasores de Streptococcus pneumoniae em niños latinoamericano. SIREVA II, 2000-2005 (2009) Pan Am J Public Health, 25, pp. 305-13Castañeda, E., Agudelo, C.I., Regueira, M., Laboratory-based surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive disease in children in 10 Latin American countrie. A SIREVA II project, 2000-2005 (2009) Pediatr Infect Dis J, 28, pp. e265-70Gales, A.C., Sader, H.S., Ribeiro, J., Antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram positive bacteria isolated in Brazilian hospitals participating in the SENTRY Program (2005-2008) (2009) Braz J Infect Dis, 13, pp. 90-8Rodriguez-Noriega, E., Seas, C., Guzmán-Blanco, M., Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Latin America (2010) Int J Infect Dis, 14, pp. e560-66Biedenbach, D.J., Toleman, M., Walsh, T.R., Jones, R.N., Analysis of Salmonella spp (2006) With resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins and fluoroquinolones isolated in North America and Latin America: report from SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (1997-2004). DiagnMicrobiol Infect Dis, 54, pp. 13-2
Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA): a powerful tool for representing implicit knowledge of scholar knowledge workers
No full textIn the last decade, knowledge has emerged as one of the most important and valuable organizational assets. Gradually this importance caused to emergence of new discipline entitled ―knowledge management‖. However one of the major challenges of knowledge management is conversion implicit or tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. Thus Making knowledge visible so that it can be better accessed, discussed, valued or generally managed is a long-standing objective in knowledge management. Accordingly in this paper author co- citation analysis (ACA) will be proposed as an efficient technique of knowledge visualization in academia (Scholar knowledge workers)
Richard Nathaniel (R.N.) Hogan Interview - Tape 1
No full textRichard Nathaniel Hogan (1902 –1997)
R.N. Hogan was born in Monroe County, Arkansas. He was adopted by G.P. Bowser and attended the school at Silver Point for a brief time and then the Southern Practical Institute in Nashville. When the Bowser family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, he went with them and finished school there. His preaching took him to most of the fifty states and he was instrumental in starting many congregations. In the interview, he talks about his evangelistic work, particularly in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Chicago. He was minister of the Figeroa Church of Christ in Los Angeles, California, for many years. Hogan was instrumental in the founding of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and served on the Board of Directors. He is the author of several books and articles, including Sermons (1940), and was editor of the Christian Echo beginning in 1953. A scholarship has been established in his name at Pepperdine University. In the interview, Hogan talks about the experience of his family with slavery, black and white relations in the beginning of some African American churches, his early memories of the Church, inter-racial relations, and disputes in the Church concerning the role of the Elders
Richard Nathaniel (R.N.) Hogan Interview - Transcript
No full textRichard Nathaniel Hogan (1902 –1997)
R.N. Hogan was born in Monroe County, Arkansas. He was adopted by G.P. Bowser and attended the school at Silver Point for a brief time and then the Southern Practical Institute in Nashville. When the Bowser family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, he went with them and finished school there. His preaching took him to most of the fifty states and he was instrumental in starting many congregations. In the interview, he talks about his evangelistic work, particularly in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Chicago. He was minister of the Figeroa Church of Christ in Los Angeles, California, for many years. Hogan was instrumental in the founding of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and served on the Board of Directors. He is the author of several books and articles, including Sermons (1940), and was editor of the Christian Echo beginning in 1953. A scholarship has been established in his name at Pepperdine University. In the interview, Hogan talks about the experience of his family with slavery, black and white relations in the beginning of some African American churches, his early memories of the Church, inter-racial relations, and disputes in the Church concerning the role of the Elders
Phase behaviour of binary mixtures of Ethane + N-Eicosane and statistical mechanical treatment of fluid phases
No full textApplied Science
Liquid-liquid equilibria in binary (2-methoxyethanol + alkane) systems at pressures up to 4000 bar
No full textMechanical, Maritime and Materials EngineeringMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
Constructing tree decompositions of graphs with bounded gonality
No full textIn this paper, we give a constructive proof of the fact that the treewidth of a graph is at most its divisorial gonality. The proof gives a polynomial time algorithm to construct a tree decomposition of width at most k, when an effective divisor of degree k that reaches all vertices is given. We also give a similar result for two related notions: stable divisorial gonality and stable gonality.Accepted author manuscriptDiscrete Mathematics and Optimizatio
Sound Between Space
No full textThe building combines two distinct functions – physical connectivity as well as dancing school. The studios are integrated together with the pedestrian traffic linking and exposing general public to experience musical and physical vibration; the studios are of varying sizes resulting in vibration natural frequencies (sounds) unique to each studio. Circulation path, on the other hand, is composed of bridges, ramps and steady floors with unique to each structure vibration frequencies induced by human footsteps acting as an excitation force. This path also provides the rhythm of experience where sequence of zones arranged in a linear manner reflects the site’s dynamic character; these include the movement of sea waves, sun, sand dunes, boats, wind turbine as well as pedestrian traffic itself.Performing Arts - Dance SchoolArchitectural EngineeringArchitectur
Dry Eye Disease Caused By Viral Infection: Review
No full textDry eye disease and ocular surface disorders may be caused or worsened by viral agents. There are several known and suspected virus associated to ocular surface diseases. The possible pathogenic mechanisms for virus-related dry eye disease are presented herein. This review serves to reinforce the importance of ophthalmologists as one of the healthcare professional able to diagnose a potentially large number of infected patients with high prevalent viral agents.762129132Sipsas, N.V., Gamaletsou, M.N., Moutsopoulos, H.M., Is Sjögren's syndrome a retroviral disease? 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Medicine (Baltimore), 79 (1), pp. 47-56Gomes, R.L., Marques, J.C., Albers, M.B., Endo, R.M., Dantas, P.E., Felberg, S., Superfície ocular e hepatite C (2011) Arq Bras Oftalmol, 74 (2), pp. 97-101Cohen, J.I., Epstein-Barr virus infection (2000) N Engl J Med, 343 (7), pp. 481-92Pflugfelder, S.C., Crouse, C.A., Atherton, S.S., Ophthalmic manifestations of Epstein-Barr virus infection (1993) Int Ophthalmol Clin, 33 (1), pp. 95-101Whittingham, S., McNeilage, J., Mackay, I.R., Primary Sjögren's syndrome after infectious mononucleosis (1985) Ann Intern Med, 102 (4), pp. 490-3Pflugfelder, S.C., Wilhelmus, K.R., Osato, M.S., Matoba, A.Y., Font, R.L., The autoimmune nature of aqueous tear deficiency (1986) Ophthalmology, 93 (12), pp. 1513-7Pflugfelder, S.C., Roussel, T.J., Culbertson, W.W., Primary Sjögren's syndrome after infectious mononucleosis (1987) JAMA, 257 (8), pp. 1049-50Pflugfelder, S.C., Crouse, C., Pereira, I., Atherton, S., Amplification of Epstein-Barr virus genomic sequences in blood cells, lacrimal glands, and tears from primary Sjögren's syndrome patients (1990) Ophthalmology, 97 (8), pp. 976-84Gaston, J.S., Rowe, M., Bacon, P., Sjögren's syndrome after infection by Epstein-Barr virus (1990) J Rheumatol, 17 (4), pp. 558-61Pflugfelder, S.C., Crouse, C.A., Monroy, D., Yen, M., Rowe, M., Atherton, S.S., Epstein-Barr virus and the lacrimal gland pathology of Sjögren's syndrome (1993) Am J Pathol, 143 (1), pp. 49-64Liesegang, T.J., Melton, L.J., Daly, P.J., Ilstrup, D.M., Epidemiology of ocular herpes simplex (1989) Incidence in Rochester, Minn, 1950 through 1982. Arch Ophthalmol, 107 (8), pp. 1155-9Liesegang, T.J., Herpes simplex virus epidemiology and ocular importance (2001) Cornea, 20 (1), pp. 1-13Keijser, S., van Best, J.A., Van der Lelij, A., Jager, M.J., Reflex and steady state tears in patients with latent stromal herpetic keratitis (2002) Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 43 (1), pp. 87-91Simard-Lebrun, A., Boisjoly, H., Al-Saadi, A., Choremis, J., Mabon, M., Chagnon, M., Association between unilateral quiescent stromal herpetic keratitis and bilateral dry eyes (2010) Cornea, 29 (11), pp. 1291-
Drawing of Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo), by Captain William Smyth, R.N., ca.1839
No full textPhotograph of a drawing of Mission Carmel (San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo), by Captain William Smyth, R.N., ca.1839. Two people sit next to a tall tree on a hill overlooking the mission. The mission has two bell towers flanking the façade of the church. To the left of the church is an arcade. Trails coming from the left and the right lead to the mission. To the right, past the road, are residential houses(?).; "The stone church at Carmel is different from all others in the chain, in that the walls taper inward forming a catenary arch, rather than the usual flat ceiling. On the exterior, the unique bell tower, with its outside stairway, shows definite Moorish influence. The great church was four years in the building, being dedicated in 1797. Father Serra now lies buried under the altar. The Indian population had dwindled by the 1820s. By 1836, two years after secularization, the destruction of mission life was complete. The church and quadrangle were essentially in ruins when the first efforts at restoration began in 1884. Then in 1931, a layman, Harry Downie, came to Carmel, as curator in charge of restoring the mission. From that time until his death in 1980, Harry dedicated his life to the California missions, working on numerous other restorations as well as at his beloved Carmel." -- unknown author
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