... activities and outcomes HIV activities began with HIV counseling and testing in Kinkala in March 2005 andin Mindouli in February 2006 All HIV activities were transferred from Kinkala to Mindouli in ... meetings for all staff involved in HIV activities 11 Appendix 12 Challenges in implementation of integrated HIV/AIDS programs inconflict areas - Convincing staff of the need and capability to introduce ... standardised and based on WHO recommendations [9] During the initial phase only first-line drugs and their alternatives were provided (i.e stavudine, lamivudine, nevirapine, effavirenz, zidovudine and...
... Allan G: Viral wasting syndrome of swine: experimental reproduction of postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in gnotobiotic swine by coinfection with porcine circovirus and porcine parvovirus ... M, Minahin D, Ellis J, Wallgren P, Fossum C: Temporal distribution of porcince circovirus genogroups recovered from postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome affectedand nonaffected farms in ... sources and also the effect of stressors and pathogen load at the herds of origin should be taken into account Indeed, there was a variation in the incidence of pigs with clinical signs resembling...
... Brand building effort BRAND_BUILDI NG_EFFORT1 BRAND_BUILDI NG_EFFORT2 BRAND_BUILDI NG_EFFORT3 BRAND_BUILDI NG_EFFORT4 In this company, brand building plan has approved In this company, brand building ... often mention to brand buildingin business meetings Group 2: including variables: RESOURCES1 - Brand building cost has planned yearly, RESOURCES2 - Company has organized training, increased 35 knowledge ... to brand image Manager level often mention to brand buildingin business meetings 3.93 1.078 3.77 1.082 Company has officially document about brand building 3.04 0.884 RESOURCES1 Brand building...
... coping mechanisms and institutions can differ fundamentally During the early post -conflict phase infragile states, the country in question is often insecure and scattered incidents of fighting ... returnees and the host community and groups supporting opposing sides in the conflict As with every programme intervention infragile states, a number of risks are involved in setting up short-term ... labour-based projects in agriculture or infrastructure (building roads or houses, tilling the land, etc) may result in the creation of short-term jobs, combined with basic skills training andin some cases...
... Responsible Business in Conflict- Affectedand High-risk Areas: A Resource for Companies and Investors” aims to assist companies in implementing responsible business practices in conflict- affectedand high-risk ... concerns and criminally-induced violence Invest in front-line conflict management capacity and training for staff to professionalize around the issues of conflict resolution, consensus buildingand ... reputational, operational, and financial risks for companies and investors Engagement with companies operating in conflict- affectedand high-risk areas can increase investors’ understanding of highly complex...
... Convergent and discriminant validity were tested by examining the correlations of items with the PCS and MCS summary scores, and then examining inter-instrument correlations between the SF-8 items and ... living in Mexico 20 years after civil conflict JAMA 2003, 290(5):635-642 Vinck P, Pham PN, Stover E, Weinstein HM: Exposure to war crimes and implications for peace buildingin northern Uganda ... KFO, TO participated in the data collection BR, JB conducted data analysis and review BR, JB involved in drafting and reviewing the manuscript KFO, TO, ES involved in reviewing the manuscript Acknowledgements...
... objective of increasing the available information on the HIV-1 epidemic in northern Uganda and identifying the socio-demographic factors associated with HIV-1 infection in this conflict- affected ... important indications for planning and evaluating public-health interventions In Uganda, a national HIV-1 sentinel surveillance system has existed for more than 10 years and currently involves ... population living in the North-Central region of Uganda, which also includes the districts of Lira and Apac [4] About 10% of people living in the Acholi region are resident in urban areas and approximately...
... PMTCT and ART services located inside and outside the IDP camps in Northern Uganda with the aim of determining access to these services for guiding priority setting, scaling up strategies and resource ... comprehensive mapping and assessment that determined access to VCT, PMTCT and ART services in a conflictaffected Northern Uganda Given the large population affected by this conflict coupled with ... limited access to and gaps in providing VCT, PMTCT and ART services in northern Uganda was attributed to the longstanding conflicts It is therefore essential to further examine other factors...
... D Bradley and S Winokur, ‘United States Security Interests in the Arctic’, in W E Westermeyer and K E Shusterich, United States Arctic Interests: The 1980s and 1990s (New York: Springer Verlag, ... Canada and the United Statesin protecting the Arctic marine environment: final remarks Both Canadian and US responses in protecting the Arctic marine environment are driven by individual national interests ... continental shelf adjacent to the AAT.48 However, in 1991, in a response to concern over mining activities occurring in Antarctica, the Antarctic Mining Prohibition Act was adopted to prohibit mining...
... management in Singapore Gender Figure indicates the dominant modes of handling conflict The two predominant modes of handling conflict for both men and women were compromising and avoiding, although ... Collaborating Compromising (Continued ) Business values, management andconflict Private services 67 Competing Collaborating Compromising Avoiding Accommodating Production and engineering Competing ... Collaborating Avoiding Compromising Accommodating Female Figure Modes of handling conflictin relation to gender 10 Chinese (male) Key : Chinese (female) Competing Collaborating Indian (male) Indian...
... while analyzing and/ or interpreting a text He points out that the really pressing question here is "which kinds of situational factor determined which kinds of selection in the linguistic system?" ... combined into the larger ones However, linguists have trended to research on discourse analysis In the area of discourse analysis study, language has been investigated in both form and meaning in ... Variation in language according to the use to which it is put in various professional and social settings, e.g scientific discourse, legal discourse And refers to the institutional setting in which...
... needed for conducting, reporting, and interpreting randomized clinical trials This knowledge cannot be inferred from an understanding of conventional experimental design in the social and behavioral ... randomization, introducing bias Forty patients were each initially randomized to intervention and control conditions In the intervention group, patient was excluded owing to death, owing to incomplete ... emphasized reducing denial while preserving hope, completing unfinished business, and taking an active role in treatment decisions, but “above all else, simply listening, understanding, and sometimes...
... letters, newspapers and pamphlets, should pass between the United Statesand Great Britain as between Great Britain and Ireland, as the intercommunication of knowledge and kindly feelings must be the ... collected in our own country, showing the uniform and powerful tendency of diminished cost to increased consumption A gentleman who is interested in a certain panorama said that, in a certain case, ... $250,321; and the investigations made into the operations of the current year, indicate a further and an increasing decline, at the rate of about $300,000 a year.” “This illicit business has...
... the public domain in the United Statesand you are located in the United States, we not claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative ... in the American coasting trade from the payment of tolls, and the memorandum of President Taft maintains that this exemption does not discriminate against foreign vessels since these, according ... previous treaty between one of the contracting parties and a third State Bearing this point in mind, it must be maintained that the United States, being bound by Article III, No 1, of the Hay-Pauncefote...
... Medical and Nursing Practice Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice is designed with these realities and practices in mind.This book is a beginning Nothing more But a necessary beginning, nonetheless.Without ... Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice This page intentionally left blank introduction Reaching Out Without Being Pulled Down Remaining Passionate in the Fields of Medicine, ... self-care and to strengthening one’s inner life Finally, as the brief epilogue’s title (“Passionate Journeys”) indicates, this book is also about maintaining and increasing the passion one originally...
... containing an extracellular ANPbinding domain (ECD), a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular domain consisting of an ATP-binding regulatory domain and a GCase catalytic domain [8] ANP binding ... et al domains into proximity, thereby mediating signal transduction [14] This proposed mechanism involving a ligand-induced domain approximation has been described in some reports as being well ... mutagenesis studies of interface residues using the full-length ANP receptor expressed in COS cells showed that mutations in the hh interface, but not in the tt interface, affected signaling (stimulation...
... Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking Water in the Central United States An Atrazine Primer Atrazine is a selective herbicide ... Widespread Atrazine Contamination and Inadequate Regulation and Monitoring NRDC analyzed in combination for the first time—the results of surface water and drinking water monitoring required by ... eliminate the use of atrazine and control weeds while reducing their use of other dangerous chemicals Poisoning the Well: How the EPA is Ignoring Atrazine Contamination in Surface and Drinking...
... cumulatively of bordering and isolated vegetated wetlands and land under water Both bordering and isolated vegetated wetlands must be delineated on the plans contained in the Notice of Intent and described ... bordering and isolated vegetated wetlands and land under water (2) Outstanding Resource Waters Dredging in, or any activity resulting in any discharge of dredged or fill material to any Outstanding ... United States within the Commonwealth Aquatic Ecosystem Waters of the United States within the Commonwealth, including wetlands, that serve as habitat for interrelated and interacting communities and...
... since ratified the Constitution in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, including by means of a referendum in both Spain and Luxembourg, F France and the Netherlands, following ... individual and collective responsibility for bringing into force a Constitution for Europe; and insists that they coordinate more closely both the content and timing of the national campaigns and give ... are pending in those areas where the Union brings real added value to Europe’s citizens; begin functioning in a much more decentralised manner, respecting and promoting the subsidiarity principle,...
... diseases in England In terms of our main interest in country differences, we find a statistically significant common excess of disease in the United States On average, and for the base case individuals ... arthritis and cancer, and emotional and mental illness including depression), disability and functioning status, and several salient health behaviors (smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical ... comparably defined in England and the United States using these two surveys In addition to presenting overall prevalence in the two samples, we also stratified the data by four broadly defined birth...