BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, epidemics of vaccine preventable diseases are largely confined to an orthodox protestant minority with religious objections to vaccination. The clustering of unvaccinated children in orthodox protestant schools can foster the spread of epidemics. School closure has nevertheless not been practiced up until now. A mumps epidemic in 2007-2008 gave us an opportunity t...

Tuberculosis (TB) affects mostly economically active population in underdeveloped and developing countries, therefore TB can have far reaching economic and social consequences among infected people and their household members. The objectives of this study were to estimate the household expenditure before and during the course of disease, to explore the direct and indirect cost burden of tubercu...

By moving beyond the walls of monumental religious architecture, this article adopts a city-lens approach to investigation lived Buddhism in third century cities northern Gandhara. Based on evidence available for city Barikot (Swat, N Pakistan), layered complexity urban religiosity is approached here through contextual analysis built-up environment and intra-site spatial distribution artefacts....

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an indispensable role in present-day household electricity management. Nevertheless, practical development cost-effective intelligent condition monitoring, protection, and control techniques for distribution systems is still a challenging task. This paper taking one step forward into implementation such by developing IoT Smart Household Distribution Board (ISH...

Greater participation in religious activities is associated with better health outcomes. In the US, most inpatients have religious needs, but physicians address them only occasionally and infrequently refer patients to clergy. US medical students are learning to do spiritual assessments and integrate the findings into patient management, which may reverse this. Religion does not play a central ...

evaluation of agricultural policies is an important issue in agricultural economics literature. economists evaluate policies on base of their welfare effects. the objective of this study is outcome subsidies removing for wheat and bread and its effect on producers and consumers. the minimization of changes in welfare loss is used in this study. the results of the welfare outcomes in wheat marke...