AAFP JOINS REBUILD RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE COALITION

The public health infrastructure: rebuild or redesign?

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Rural Coalition Meeting

-We measured the effect of 6 standard (Adriamycin, BCNU, DTIC, melphalan, vinblastine, actinomycin D) and 3 Phase II agents (cis-platinum, vindesine, AMSA) on melanoma colony-forming units (CFU) in soft agar from biopsies of 50 patients with metastatic melanoma. Melanoma CFU demonstrated marked heterogeneity in chemosensitivity to these 9 drugs. Reduction in survival of CFU below 38°, at one-te...

Financing Rural Transport Infrastructure

A fundamental requirement for making sustainable improvements to rural infrastructure is a clear understanding of who will finance maintenance and capital improvements. In the past the question of financing rural roads has centered primarily on the role of governments. Given the acute scarcity of financial and human resources in most developing countries, there are simply too many kilometers of...

Panda rebuild

The researchers used recordings of a sentinel's 'watchman's song' played back at different heights to observe the differences in behaviour. And indeed they found that the higher a song was transmitted, the more confident foragers were in extending the distance and duration of their activities. When sentinels moved to a higher position, their probability of detecting predators is likely to be gr...

Rural Infrastructure and Agricultural Development