BACKGROUND Dengue is a major global public health problem with increasing incidence and geographic spread. The epidemiology is complex with long inter-epidemic intervals and endemic with seasonal fluctuations. This study was initiated to investigate dengue transmission dynamics in Binh Thuan province, southern Vietnam. METHODOLOGY Wavelet analyses were performed on time series of monthly noti...

serves to help students’ motivation in the teaching and learning processes. The concept of critical thinking arises from the practice of reflective thinking (Leung & Kember, 2003; Phan, 2007, 2008a), where this construct has been shown to relate positively to students’ academic success (Lee & Loughran, 2000). Critical thinking helps individuals to think and analyse critically about their own le...

Broadcast encryption provides a convenient method to distribute digital content to subscribers over an insecure broadcast channel. Traitor tracing is needed because some users may give out their decryption keys to construct pirate decoders. There are many traitor tracing schemes based on collusion secure codes and identifiable parent property codes. However, these schemes are subject to public ...

Correspondence to: Shih-Yu Wang, Utah Climate Center/Dept. Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; E-mail: [email protected]. Is Global Warming Changing the ENSO Precursor in the Western North Pacific? Shih-Yu Wang, Michelle L’Heureux, and Jin-Ho Yoon Utah Climate Center/Dept. Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, Utah NOAA Climate Prediction Center,...

Sarah S. Richardson, Meredith Reiches, Heather Shattuck-Heidorn, Michelle Lynne LaBonte, and Theresa Consoli Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harv...

Exact, fully explicit, purely real analytical expressions for the material functions describing steady, startup, and cessation regimes of shear flows planar, uniaxial, biaxial extensional full linear Phan-Thien--Tanner fluids are obtained. These expressions, which have no analogs in literature, formulated compact, beautiful forms, partially due to unique scaling procedure reducing number model ...