457 research outputs found
The Ebola outbreak in comparison: Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire
Full text linkWest Africa has been fighting its first epidemic of the Ebola virus disease for more thana year now. Despite a decline of infections, especially in urban centres, new cases stillemerge and call for continued vigilance. According to the WHO, there have been 26,044cases with 10,808 mortalities as of April 22, 2015. Though Sierra Leone has by nowexperienced the highest number of cases, overall mortality rates are higher in Liberia,where almost half of those infected died (4,573 of 10,212). No case has been recorded inCôte d’Ivoire. Why has there not been a single official case in Côte d’Ivoire despite thefact that it shares large parts of its border with Liberia and Guinea
WSO904915 Supplemental material - Supplemental material for Risk factors and outcomes of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and endovascular thrombectomy utilization amongst pediatrics acute ischemic stroke
No full textSupplemental material, WSO904915 Supplemental material for Risk factors and outcomes of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and endovascular thrombectomy utilization amongst pediatrics acute ischemic stroke by Preeti Malik, Urvish K Patel, Surabhi Kaul, Ramit Singla, Tapan Kavi, Kogulavadanan Arumaithurai and Vishal B Jani in International Journal of Stroke</p
A reservation based parking lot system to maximize occupancy and revenue
No full textNumerous parking issues are faced by people on a day to day basis. Congestion is caused by customers circling the lot in search of vacant parking spots while the lot may be full. At peak periods the parking lot may not be filled to maximum capacity because there are only primitive ways to indicate to customers the availability of spots in the lot. Thus parking garages tend to lose profit as usage of parking lots is not maximized. The Parking Lot System proposed aims to reduce these parking hassles faced by people and the occupancy issues faced by parking lot owners by providing customers with a facility of reserving parking spots before arrival at the lot. This reduces the parking search traffic as well as the parking search time. Additionally, this system proposes to automate occupancy tracking in the lot which ensures that customers are aware of the availability of parking spaces from remote locations. In case of unavailability of parking spaces, customers are notified at the entrance thereby reducing congestion levels in the lot. The designed system is simulated in real world scenarios to test the occupancy levels achieved by the lot. The practices and strategies used in well developed reservation systems (hotels and aviation industries) like overbooking are modified and applied in this domain to improve occupancy levels. An increase of about 5.19% in the occupancy level is observed. A comparative study of the effect of various business strategies is carried out to determine the best mix of user controllable parameters. The parameters controllable by the parking lot owners are the length of the grace period provided to customers to arrive and claim their reservation, the number of overbooked reservations made by the system and the proportion of spots in the lot available for reservation. A further increase of up to 5.97% in the occupancy level is observed by using different combinations and values of these parameters. For the purpose of simulation, the parking garage is assumed to be located in a city downtown area having customers using it for both corporate as well as leisure purpose.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sonia Preeti Pint
IMPACT ANALYSIS OF COVID-19 ON DAIRY INDUSTRY
No full textVijay D. Kele*,Preeti Nair**, Parth Hirpara*Dhruvin Patel* and Vijay Upadhye *
Adult Education: Exploring the inequalities in the world’s most populated country
No full textThis month on Humanities Matter, we discuss the variation in literacy rates among India’s social strata, the importance of considering a gendered perspective in adult education policies within the country, and how such policies can empower marginalized communities and bring about social change.
All this and more with Dr. Preeti Dagar, author of “Subaltern Perspectives in Adult Education”, a chapter in the book Adult Education in India, Volume 35 in the series International Issues in Adult Education, published last year by Brill
“LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT” - CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PREETI SHENOY’S
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‘Life is what you make it‘ is a fiction written by Preeti Shenoy a blooming author. She has also written for different publications like Reader’s Digest and The Times of India, as well as taught English and Math to children in India. Her first book was ‘34 Buffer guns and Candies‘ a creative notification that made it to the national-best seller list. The book ‘Life is what you make it’ is the story of Ankita Sharma a girl in her twenties. It focuses attention on a little known disease, bipolar disease.
The plot is set in the 80s and moves across two cities. Being a bright student she got admitted into one of South India’s best colleges. What follows is a series of events, love affairs, pranks and studies that are instrumental for every college going student. But Ankita’s life soon turn-turvy when she is diagnosed with a mental illness. She develops Bipolar disorder
Civil society organisations and global health initiatives: problems of legitimacy.
No full textCivil society organisations (CSOs) have a prominent role in global health initiatives such as The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) and, in the United States, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). They are increasingly consulted by international organisations and, in some cases like the Global Fund, are involved in decision-making. They are also increasingly seen as crucial agents in delivering health interventions on the ground. Some donors prefer to channel funds through CSOs in developing countries than through perceived to be corrupt or inefficient government agencies. This paper examines this growing role and the arguments put forward to justify their increasing influence, particularly in HIV/AIDS initiatives. It analyses the main challenges to CSOs' legitimacy and outlines key responses to these challenges. It concludes by suggesting a number of research priorities that might help to evaluate the impact of CSOs in global health initiatives
Climate change, conflict and health.
No full textBoth conflict and climate change may produce serious negative health consequences. However, there is insufficient evidence that climate change, e.g. through environmental degradation or fresh water shortages, leads to conflict as is often claimed. Also, current theory on cause of conflict would refute this hypothesis
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