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The History of Schistosomiasis in Nigeria » Population in

Nigeria has the highest number of schistosomiasis cases in the world – in the African region, over 26% of people requiring chemotherapy reside in Nigeria [1]. Significant gaps in epidemiological data creates difficulties in understanding the true distribution of the disease and necessary intervention [1]. In 1986, an estimated 28% of the population was infected by schistosomiasis, and the most recent estimate suggests country-wide prevalence of 23% [2,3]. Presence of the disease has been known since 1881 [4]. The first mapping project was carried out in 1963 and indicated that the main endemic area was on the Niger border, with smaller endemic areas throughout the country [4]. A 1987 report by the World Health Organization indicated that the urinary form of the disease (Schistosoma haematobium) was widespread, with zones of high endemicity in the Niger River basin, the southwest, the central and northern highlands, and around Lake Chad. Intestinal schistosomiasis (S. mansoni) was less prevalent but likely equally as extensive in range [4]. In a survey conducted from 1990-1991, S. haematobium prevalence was shown to be highest in the north-central and southeast areas of the country [5]. The History of Schistosomiasis in Nigeria
Stimulating Curiosity and Consumer Experience in a Retailer

Nowadays, retailers have to try to differentiate themselves from their competitors through consumer shopping experience. The authors distinguish several experience dimensions and develop a shopping experience scale that includes six dimensions: sensory (tactile, scent, auditory, visual, taste), intellectual (through design and with employees), social, pragmatic and emotional. Analyzing the experiences by sectors of activity, our study indicates that the emotional experience predominates in some sectors, like jewelry or bookstores. Emotional experience can also be linked to pragmatic experience. This occurs in the sports, decoration and toy sectors. Thus it is important to develop innovations related to emotional experience. Enhancing imagination, creativity and arousing consumer curiosity the retailer will create an experiential shop, which are of particular interest to the consumer.
AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES IN THE BRAZILIAN FORMAL LABOR MARKET

This paper aims to discuss how agglomerations economies are present in the equilibrium outcomes of the Brazilian formal labor market. We make use of an individual-firm panel database from the Ministry of Labor (RAIS) with information for six years (2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2012). With the panel data setting, it is not only possible to account for individual unobserved characteristics constant in time, but also for sector and area effects. Moreover, by identifying skills according to the occupational position of the individuals in each firm, it is possible to control for the proximity to different skill levels (in the sector and municipality) to account for different levels of production knowledge externalities. Individual fixed effects control the potential endogeneity of the labor quality. In the case of labor quantity endogeneity, even if there is no consensus of how to best control for it, instruments based on long time lags are considered. The results show that there is a positive and significant effect of density over wages (Urban Economics literature), even when controlling for other relevant characteristics. Moreover, a measure of market potential, related to the New Economic Geography literature, does not capture this positive relationship with wages in the same way, changing sign in a specific setting. Finally, considering a quantile regression approach, there is an indication that agglomeration economies reinforce wage inequality, with a higher effect for the upper part of the wage distribution.
Specification for Asset Identification 1.1

Asset identification plays an important role in an organization‟s ability to quickly correlate different sets of information about assets. This specification provides the necessary constructs to uniquely identify assets based on known identifiers and/or known information about the assets. This specification describes the purpose of asset identification, a data model for identifying assets, methods for identifying assets, and guidance on how to use asset identification. It also identifies a number of known use cases for asset identification. Trademark Information CPE is a trademark of The MITRE Corporation. All other registered trademarks or trademarks belong to their respective organizations. SPECIFICATION FOR ASSET IDENTIFICATION 1.1 iv Table of
Family Support in Advanced Cancer

Changes in the health care system have resulted in a shift of cancer care from the in‐patient arena to ambulatory and home settings. This shift has likewise translated into increased family involvement in the day‐to‐day care of the person with cancer. Cancer patients have multifaceted needs, including disease and treatment monitoring, symptom management, medication administration, emotional support, assistance with personal care, and assistance with instrument care. Family caregivers may be ill prepared to assume these tasks, requiring information on the disease and treatment, as well as instruction in technical and care skills. Moreover, caregiving must be balanced against already established roles and role responsibilities. In addition, family caregivers have their own emotional responses to the patients' diagnosis and prognosis, and may require coaching and emotional support themselves.
PENGARUH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE DAN LEVERAGE TERHADAP PROFITABILITAS BANK YANG GO PUBLIC DI INDONESIA PERIODE 2009-2012

The Objective of this study were to examine the effects of corporate governance and leverage on profitability banking companies. The samples from this study is the banking company located in Indonesia are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI) in the period 2009-2012. Corporate Governance mechanisms such as: board of directors, independent commissioners, institutional ownership and managerial ownership, and leverage on profitability (proxies by return on assets). These results indicate that the board of directors have negatif and insignificant effect on return on assets. Independent commissioners have a positif and insignificant effect on return on assets. The proportion of institutional ownership, the proportion of managerial, and Leverage have negative and significant. The results show that corporate governance and leverage have simultaneously effect on return on assets of the banking company. Keywords: Corporate Governance, Leverage, Profitability, Return on Assets, Banking Companies
Investor Sentiment and the Performance of Mutual Funds Pursuing Momentum and Contrarian Trading Strategies

The success of mutual funds engaging in momentum and contrarian trading strategies is predicated on the identification of mispriced stocks. Stock investor sentiment betas capture salient characteristics that predispose stocks to mispricing. Funds engage in momentum and contrarian trading in equal proportions, but differ in the sentiment betas of the stocks in their portfolios. Momentum funds hold stocks with higher sentiment betas, and with a wider spread of betas compared to contrarian funds. Fund excess returns are strongly related to Baker and Wurgler’s (2007) change in sentiment index, and the mean and spread of the sentiment betas of their stocks.
Angiotensin AT1 receptor activation mediates high glucose‐induced epithelial–mesenchymal transition in renal proximal tubular cells

1. Renal tubular epithelial cells can undergo epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) under hyperglycaemic conditions, which is associated with renal interstitial fibrosis. Activation of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS) is involved in diabetic nephropathy. The present study investigated the positive role of angiotensin AT1 receptors in high glucose‐induced EMT in cultured tubular epithelial cells.
Methodological bases of life quality assessment

In the article, some methodological bases for life quality assessment are discussed. Life quality is most often identified as a dependent variable conditioned by the disease development and treatment, and by psychological and social factors. A particular life quality assessment is subjective and should be done by the patient themselves. On the other hand research reveals substantial differences between a patient’s subjective life quality perception and a clinician’s objective evaluation. It is therefore advisable to compare and combine both, as it enriches interpretation and helps a patient reach for their own internal resources to improve their life quality or to identify factors that affect it negatively. For reliable outcomes of clinical life quality assessments, standardised measurement tools are indispensable. Tools designed in foreign languages must be appropriately cross-culturally adapted for Polish circumstances and their questionnaires must meet psychometric standards, i.e. reliability an validity. Methodology standards for life quality stud­ies have been set by The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer in their work on life-quality-assessment research tools. In addition, in examining people who are chronically and often seriously ill, patient’s overall condition and needs must be taken into consideration. Examining should not cause patient’s excessive effort or unnecessary discomfort in the necessity of answering disturbing questions.
On the Yield of Millimeter-Wave Bond-Wire-Antennas in High Volume Production

For the development of highly integrated millimeter-wave front-end modules, a low-cost and high-performance antenna technology is of paramount importance. Here, standard wire-bond technology is a very attractive candidate due to its widespread availability, computationally efficient modeling options, and promising performance as an antenna. A concern often stated with respect to antennas in this technology, however, is its expected low yield in high volume production. This concern is addressed in this communication by means of a dedicated, computationally efficient antenna model in conjunction with standard deviations of state-of-the-art wire-bonders. The results indicate a possible yield of larger than 99.9% for operating frequencies of up to 250 GHz.
WISA - A Modular and Hybrid Expert System for Machine and Plant Diagnosis

Expert systems are well known tools for diagnosis purposes in medicine and industry. One problem is the hard efford, to create the knowledge base. This article describes an expert system for industrial diagnosis and shows an efficient approach for the creation of the rule base, which is based on the reusage of knowledge modules. These knowledge modules are representants for assets like devices, machines and plants. The article encourages manufacturers of such assets to provide diagnosis knowledge bases by using a proposed multiparadigm rule definition language called HLD (Hybrid Logic Description). Rule based knowledge may be expressed by using various methodologies, which differ in expressiveness but also in runtime performance. The HLD allowes rules to be defined as propositional logic with or without the use of certainty factors, as Fuzzy Logic or as probabilistic rules as in Bayesian Networks. The most effective rule type may be chosen to describe causal dependencies between symptoms and failures. An evaluation prototype implementation has been developed in the research project WISA, which includes a sotftware tool chain for handling HLD files.
Prospects on clinical applications of electrical stimulation for nerve regeneration

Regenerative capability is limited in higher vertebrates but present in organ systems such as skin, liver, bone, and to some extent, the nervous system. Peripheral nerves in particular have a relatively high potential for regeneration following injury. However, delay in regrowth or growth, blockage, or misdirection at the injury site, and growth to inappropriate end organs may compromise successful regeneration, leading to poor clinical results. Recent studies indicate that low‐intensity electrical stimulation is equivalent to various growth factors, offering avenues to improve these outcomes. We present a review of studies using electric and electromagnetic fields that provide evidence for the enhancement of regeneration following nerve injury.
, Marcel Cortex Impact of Heme and Heme Degradation Products on Vascular Diameter in Mouse Visual

Background-—Delayed cerebral vasospasm is the most common cause of mortality and severe neurological impairment in patients who survive subarachnoid hemorrhage. Despite improvements in the field of diagnostic imaging, options for prevention and medical treatment—primarily with the calcium channel antagonist nimodipine or hemodynamic manipulations—are insufficient. Previous studies have suggested that heme and bilirubin oxidation end products, originating from degraded hemoglobin around ruptured blood vessels, are involved in the development of vasospasm by inhibiting large conductance BKCa potassium channels in vascular smooth muscle cells. In this study, we identify individual heme degradation products regulating arteriolar diameter in dependence of BKCa channel activity.
Standardized North American Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocol

Abstract. Little is known about the population status of many marsh-dependent birds in North America but recent efforts have focused on collecting more reliable information and estimates of population trends. As part of that effort, a standardized survey protocol was developed in 1999 that provided guidance for conducting marsh bird surveys throughout North America such that data would be consistent among locations. The original survey protocol has been revised to provide greater clarification on many issues as the number of individuals using the protocol has grown. The Standardized North American Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocol instructs surveyors to conduct an initial 5-minute passive point-count survey followed by a series of 1-minute segments during which marsh bird calls are broadcast into the marsh following a standardized approach. Surveyors are instructed to record each individual bird from the suite of 26 focal species that are present in their local area on separate lines of a datasheet and estimate the distance to each bird. Also, surveyors are required to record whether each individual bird was detected within each 1-minute subsegment of the survey. These data allow analysts to use several different approaches for estimating detection probability. The Standardized North American Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocol provides detailed instructions that explain the field methods used to monitor marsh birds in North America.
Ordered Precoder Designs for MIMO Interference Channels Based on Interference Alignment

Recent research shows that K user time-varying interference channel is capable of achieving K/2 degrees of freedom based on interference alignment (IA). In multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels, appropriate transmit precoder design plays a pivotal role in efficiently suppressing the co-channel interference. In this paper, we propose two heuristic ordered precoder design algorithms for MIMO interference channels based on global search and chordal distance, respectively. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate that the proposed ordered precoder designs are capable of significantly improving the system sum capacity.
Big Data Driven Supply Chain Management: A Framework for Implementing Analytics and Turning Information Into Intelligence

Master a complete, five-step roadmap for leveraging Big Data and analytics to gain unprecedented competitive advantage from your supply chain. Using Big Data, pioneers such as Amazon, UPS, and Wal-Mart are gaining unprecedented mastery over their supply chains. They are achieving greater visibility into inventory levels, order fulfillment rates, material and product delivery using predictive data analytics to match supply with demand; leveraging new planning strengths to optimize their sales channel strategies; optimizing supply chain strategy and competitive priorities; even launching powerful new ventures. Despite these opportunities, many supply chain operations are gaining limited or no value from Big Data. In Big Data Driven Supply Chain Management, Nada Sanders presents a systematic five-step framework for using Big Data in supply chains. You'll learn best practices for segmenting and analyzing customers, defining competitive priorities for each segment, aligning functions behind strategy, dissolving organizational boundaries to sense demand and make better decisions, and choose the right metrics to support all of this. Using these techniques, you can overcome the widespread obstacles to making the most of Big Data in your supply chain and earn big profits from the data you're already generating. For all executives, managers, and analysts interested in using Big Data technologies to improve supply chain performance.
The Influence of Social Media on Recruitment and Selection Process in SMEs

The goal of this research is to investigate the influence of social media on recruitment and selection in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Social media networking provides great opportunities for businesses and job seekers to a certain extent. A mixed method is utilized for this research which consists of both quantitative and qualitative data collection tools from the selected participants. The population was selected from 1000 firms listed in the Yellow pages of Etisalat. A random sampling procedure was used to select 400 firms from different types of sectors. The respondents of this study incorporated 200 business owners with a 50 percent response rate. The results show that 58 percent of employers in SMEs are using social media to search for high qualified candidates. The highest benefit from using social media in recruitment and selection is to hunt for high qualified employees with 79 percent of the respondents. The paper provides rational evidence for employers and recruiters to have a clear recruitment strategy that is consistent and ongoing to attract job seekers using various methods of social media networking and to build a clear selection method for the hiring process.
Current Educational Technology Use for Digital Information Acquisition by Young New Zealand Children

Improving children's information acquisition using digital documents is an under-studied field. We performed a survey with both teachers and parents to highlight the current use of technology and digital information by young New Zealand children, both in schools and at home. We found that children have access to a range of technologies and information sources both at home and at school. They use a mix of computers, print books and eBooks to access documents. This paper analyses the results of our survey and discusses its implications for further studies and interventions on educational practices for children's information acquisition.
Modification of the effects of chlorpromazine on behavior in the chimpanzee.

During daily two-hour sessions, key-pressing behavior in the chimpanzee was maintained under a multiple schedule comprising a 10-minute fixed-interval schedule and a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food delivery. Water was freely available in the chimpanzee's living area and in the experimental chamber, and schedule-related drinking occurred regularly during the session. Chlorpromazine had dose-dependent effects on key pressing and on water intake during the session. The drug increased mean response rates under the fixed-interval schedule at doses of 0.03 to 0.3 mg/kg i.m. and decreased responding at 1.0 to 3.0 mg/kg. The high rates of responding engedered under the fixed-ratio schedule were not affected by the lower doses, but were decreased by doses of 1.0 to 3.0 mg/kg. Water intake was also unaffected by doses below 1.0 mg/kg, but decreased at doses of 1.0 to 3.0 mg/kg. Presentation of a brief (20 msec) auditory stimulus after each response during the fixed-interval and fixed-ratio schedules poteniated the enhancing effect of chlorpromazine on responding under the fixed-interval schedule. Presentation of the brief stimulus did not alter the effects of chlorpromazine on responding under the fixed-ratio schedule and on water intake, however. These results show that 1) chlorpromazine can enhance schedule-controlled responding in the chimpanzee. 2) the enhancing effect of chlorpromazine can be potentiated when each response produces a brief change in environmental stimuli and 3) chlorpromazine only affects water intake at doses that also disrupt responding.
GAMBARAN ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR PADA KARYAWAN TETAP PT. “JCT” STEEL MILLS

Globalization has created great changes towards industrial companies in Indonesia. As the result, competition among industrial companies become very tough. Manufacture industries is still a leading sector for economic growth. ”JCT” Steel Mills company is one of large steel mills industrial company that established since 1992. This research is going to describe Organization Citizenship Behavior (OCB) of employees in ”JCT” Steel Mills company. OCB is known as one‟s willing behaviors to support organization effectiveness. This research is quantitative descriptive research. OCB questionnaire is distributed to 95 employees. Data has been analysed with T-scale. The general result reveals all employees is in moderate level of OCB. The dimension of OCB which are: civic virtue and consciousness is 74.7%, helping behavior is 71.6%, sportmanship is 68.4% , courtesy is 69.5%. Some factors like communication problem among senior and junior level and other divisions are indicated as barriers of courtesy and sportmanship. Keywords: Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Employees, Organization
Structure of axon terminals and active zones at synapses on lizard twitch and tonic muscle fibers

The freeze-fracture technique was used to study differences in membrane structure which could explain differences in the number of quanta released from axon terminals on twitch and tonic muscle fibers in Anolis intercostal muscles. The protoplasmic leaflets of axon terminals facing lizard twitch muscle fibers have intramembrane particle specializations characterized by two parallel linear particle arrays each composed of two particle rows which lie perpendicular to the axis of shallow ridges in the axolemma. During K+ depolarization, vesicles open between the arrays, confirming that these structures are the active zones for synaptic vesicle opening. Active zones at axon terminals on tonic fibers are defined by one linear particle array composed of two parallel particle rows oriented along the axis of a shallow presynaptic ridge; vesicles open beside these arrays. Thus, there are more particles near active zone vesicles in terminals on twitch fibers. Even though terminals on twitch and tonic muscle fibers seem to have similar numbers of synaptic vesicles associated with their active zones, a presynaptic action potential is reported to release at least 10 times more quanta from terminals on twitch fibers. We postulate that the differences in quantal output are related to the observed differences in the number of active zone particles flanking synaptic vesicles at the active zone. Indeed, the correlation between the distribution of these particles and the level of transmitter release provides additional support for the idea that they are the calcium channels which couple transmitter release to the action potential.
Applying software process modeling to improve customer support processes

The quality of an organization's support services can be key to maintaining and extending its customer base and to its future survival. As such, support services need to be considered in software process improvement initiatives and not left as an afterthought or stand‐alone effort. However, to identify areas in need of improvement requires a good understanding of the current process. To meet this need, we have developed a process modeling technique called LAPPI that documents current ‘as‐is’ processes.