OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the Brazilian Laboratorial Environment Management System (GAL) as a data source for the Sentinel Surveillance of Influenza-Like Illness (SSILI). METHODS: this is an evaluation study of GAL, through the analysis of its simplicity, flexibility, data quality, acceptability, representativeness, timeliness, stability and usefulness for SSILI, based on the guide for system ev...

Motivation: A well known car company issued recalls in three successive years for the same design flaw. In another company, a production engineer fixed a problem in one model year, only to have the fix removed in the next year, because nobody understood why the fix had been installed. US Intelligence agencies have overlooked the signs of emerging crises because analysts in different areas didn’...

Recent advances in decentralized epistemologies and “fuzzy” information have paved the way for DHCP. after years of theoretical research into simulated annealing, we show the synthesis of online algorithms. In order to solve this riddle, we concentrate our efforts on showing that access points and IPv4 are entirely incompatible.

tant correlations between interproton coupling constants and structure available at the time. It cited 148 references, many of them multiple, and contained 109 structures with hundreds of numerical values for coupling constants as well as graphical and tabular results defining the variation of 1H~’Hcoupling constants with stereoelectronic factors. [The SCI® indicates that this paper has been ci...

Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practic...

In changing and uncertain times, humanity looks toward spirituality for tranquility and peace. Historically angels have been at the forefront of bringing comfort and understanding from God. The Greek word angelos means messenger and is the origin of the modern English word angel. In monotheist–the worship of one Godreligions, angels are often mentioned in stories as being intermediaries between...

This paper assesses the day of the week effect of the daily depreciation of the Turkish lira (TL) against the US dollar (USD) and its volatility. The empirical evidence from Turkey presented here suggests that Thursdays are associated with higher and Mondays with lower depreciation rates compared to those of Wednesdays. Moreover, Mondays and Tuesdays are associated with higher volatility than W...

for distinct odd primes p, ql9 ..., qt, with p = a = 1 (mod 4). (We shall always assume this form for the prime factor decomposition of N) . Many writers have found conditions which must be satisfied by the exponents 23i» ...5 2(3t» and it is our intention here to extend some of those results. We shall find it necessary to call on a number of conditions of other types, some of which have only r...

Two screening studies in Georgia tested new herbicides as potential eradicators of kudzu (Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi). One study was conducted on a Coastal.Plain and the other on a Piedmont site. Tordon 101 was applied as the standard. Those herbicide& which are currently labeled for forest land site preparation and which gave control comparable to Tordon 101 (a-0.05) were Tordon K at 4 qt/A...

Multi-core processing environments have become the norm in the generic computing environment and are being considered for adding an extra dimension to the execution of any application. The T2 Niagara processor is a very unique environment where it consists of eight cores having a capability of running eight threads simultaneously in each of the cores. Applications like General Atomic and Molecu...