... competent LTTE in built-up areas as well as the jungle The LTTE has perpetrated dozens of attacks in the capital city of Colombo as well as in the ideological capital of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil homeland), ... in the Middle East and in South Asia, which has opened up new opportunities for weapons procurement and other necessary operational assets as well as the exchange oflessonslearned among different ... Munasinghe (2000), Gunasekara (2001), and Balasingham (2001) Sri Lanka 21 to a soldier, capture of a built up area is the most distasteful of operational tasks as it restricts the power of maneuver...
... other rooms, such as sterilization areas or changing rooms, were used for consultations Waiting time was often several hours, and waiting areas became overcrowded The increased patient load put ... smooth transition from hospitalbased to clinic-based care The short-term chaos has been outweighed by the broader benefits of establishing a decentralized programme Asof December 2008, more than ... proposed a number of actions (Table 1) A joint MSF and provincial health team, dedicated to assisting the clinics with the down referral process, was assembled This team oversaw a number of actions,...
... teams of ART providers Sites were chosen based on geographic coverage needs, patient volume and assessments of sufficient infrastructure By December 2008, ART was being provided in 67 sites (of ... acknowledge the support of the Mozambique Ministry of Health and the Provincial Health Directorates of Manica and Sofala Provinces Author details University of Washington Department of Global Health, ... large numbers of people on ART as quickly as possible has often subordinated broader population health needs and the health system requirements necessary to address them In some cases, parallel...
... Manuel Senior Scientist Associate Professor Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Craig ... Straus, MD, FRCPC, MSc Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada ... and her metaphor of a traffic roundabout helped us make sense of the lessons we learned and experiences we had at the KTSI As Dr Brouwers explained, in KT, the continuous stream of traffic around...
... Manuel Senior Scientist Associate Professor Institute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada Craig ... Straus, MD, FRCPC, MSc Associate Professor Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada ... and her metaphor of a traffic roundabout helped us make sense of the lessons we learned and experiences we had at the KTSI As Dr Brouwers explained, in KT, the continuous stream of traffic around...
... intervention, on any of these measures Standardised measures On the ASI just under 56% of clients had shared an item of injecting equipment in the last six months, with the mean number of people that ... inject Knowledge of hepatitis C, as measured by our item true-or-false questionnaire was better than expected, with average scores of over 16 out of twenty "Stage of change", measured by the Readiness ... Effect of Treatment Effect of Time ANCOVA Mean sd Mean sd Mean sd Mean sd F p F p ASI – drug use ASI – alcohol use ASI – medical subscale ASI – psychiatric subscale ASI – Legal subscale ASI –...
... base case estimate was decreased and increased by 25% in order to arrive at extreme values Similarly, if minimum and maximum values were available but not a specific base case, the midpoint of ... particular The use of devices and the costs of these devices, for example, increased steadily as visual acuity decreased in patients with AMD [18] Similarly, the use of caregiving increased as visual ... of these extreme values was used as the base case input parameter Results The literature search identified a wide range of estimates for the costs of the conditions of interest, with various...
... the field, and was the principal author IvE was medical coordinator during the time of the violence and contributed to the history of the events as well as some data analysis BT was the epidemiologist ... corrected and the FUCHIA database was restored In order to assess the number of patients who might have experienced treatment interruption of HAART, we analyzed the number of patients who were delayed ... In times of anticipated instability, consider extending the supply of medication for patients Similarly, increase stocks of medications in the health centers to anticipate interruptions of drug...
... single pass reads When we assembled reads at a depth of 2.5× coverage, the mean number of contigs obtained per clone was 27 and the average total contig length was 138 kb If coverage is increased ... demonstrate the value of genome sequencing at increased levels of coverage The advent of large-scale sequencing projects in the last two decades has been accompanied by the formulation of mathematical ... the impact of low-coverage sequencing on the structure of the assembly is considerable Reducing the number of sequence reads from a depth of 7.5× to 5× and 2.5× increases the number of contigs...
... nearly enough The reason for this is that our society craves on instant gratification Simply put, we want things now and we want them fast As much as we would like to see this type of change, especially ... THEIR FIRST YEAR AS AN ENTREPRENEUR 1 FA I L U R E I S I N E V I TA B L E AS AN ENTREPRENEUR, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO M A K E A VA R I E T Y O F S A C R I F I C E S NOW AS MUCH AS YOU EXPECT SUCCESS, ... we think of marketing, we think immediately of getting our name out of there • Well for those who have tried, you will find out that the idea of selling yourself is not always that easy • The...
... Despite an increasing number of reports on youth SRH problems, the SRH needs of young people often fall through the cracks of many health and development plans and programs Because of the stigma ... planning, and as a result of both the training and experience of service providers in youth issues, as well as demand for the services by youth, service provision to the group has expanded This ... Management Teams (CHMTs) to scale-up integration of YFS in as many public health facilities as possible For example, as a result of successful integration of YFS at the IDC, the authorities in Dar es...
... Measures should be key areas of focus Some ways to measure your results… • Direct sales and leads as a result of engagement • Reverb – Message x Followers, Friends, BFFs, etc • Engagement – # of ... to Facebook at least once each day • More than two-thirds of Facebook users are outside of college • The fastest growing demographic is those 35 years old and older • About 70% of Facebook users ... 1/3rd of the population, in the US now visit social networks at least monthly It’s popular in the US but not in the rest of the world • 0% percent of Twitter users are over 25 • he fastest...
... properly Although password-based authentication is one of the easiest authentication methods to implement, it is also the most prone to compromise, because passwords can be easily shared, stolen, ... trademarks of VeriSign and its subsidiaries in the United States and in foreign countries MasterCard is a registered trademark of MasterCard International Inc Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft ... their IT infrastructure with security in mind They often fail PCI assessment because they have very flat (non-partitioned) networks in which card databases are not segmented from the rest of the network...
... processes, yet it is often too generic to meet the specific needs of software projects The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has developed the Team Software Process (TSP) for the team as a whole, ... procedures and processes, there stands out one major source of error—the subjective nature of the risk assessments and assigning of probability of occurrence to specific risks within a program or project” ... benefits of integrated, quantitative risk analysis due to the demand for quality project management data are as valuable as the direct benefits The authors suggest the followings aslessons learned...
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... Republic of Iran, as well as by speculation about escalating geopolitical tensions in the region In the baseline outlook, assuming no escalation of such factors, the price of Brent crude is forecast ... Sub-Saharan Africa 4.8 Nigeria 4.3 South Africa 3.2 Others 6.2 East and South Asia 7.6 East Asia 7.7 China 11.4 South Asia 7.2 India 8.4 Western Asia 3.5 Latin America and the Caribbean 3.2 South America ... regained some stability in early 2012 as concerns over an escalation of the euro area crisis and the possibility of a hard landing of the Chinese economy eased (at least for now), and growth prospects...
... available on an ongoing basis to soldiers and officers going on leave or leaving the base As many young soldiers and officers not have the ease of movement and financial means to purchase condoms, these ... Wives of high commanders and female officers can also be tapped as advocates, as they often play a ‘first lady’ leadership role at garrison level They often take the lead in organizing spouses’ associations ... army bases Limitations of the study Scope of inquiry: HIV/AIDS is one of several topics that the case studies considered, not their sole focus HIV/AIDS was addressed within the context of reproductive...
... included theories and lessonslearned from the past, as well as contemporary debates on the topic, which may not necessarily pertain to the lessonslearned from these particular case studies Although ... Honduras, the insurgents were able to enjoy sanctuary, as well as a steady flow of support from Cuba and Nicaragua, until the fall of the Soviet Union xii Money in the Bank: LessonsLearned from Past ... transferable between cases Seeing lessonslearned not as a loose analogy but as a perfectly matching antidote can be a rather costly oversight In the search for lessonslearned and unlearned, counterinsurgent...