To determine clinical and epidemiologic differences between influenza caused by different virus types and subtypes, we identified patients and tested specimens. Patients were children and adults hospitalized with confirmed influenza and severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) identified through active, prospective, hospital-based surveillance from 2009-2012 in South Africa. Respiratory specimen...

This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), a database using the Progress out of Poverty (PPI) Scorecard as a measure of poverty. Analysis using both OLS and quantile mult...

The declining incidence of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection in the Islamic Republic of Iran may be reducing the population's natural immunity. This was the first systemized, population-based survey of the seroprevalence of HAV antibodies in urban and rural inhabitants of Sari, Mazandaran province. Serum from 1034 individuals aged 1-25 years in 2007 were tested for anti-HAV lgG antibody using a...

With increasing product portfolios of eCommerce companies it is getting harder for their customers to find the products they like best. A solution to this problem is to analyze the customer's behavior, and recommend products based on ratings. By considering click-stream data, the customer is unburdened with explicitly rating his favored. In this paper, we introduce a system for segmenting visit...

1. Kahr WH, Hinckley J, Li L et al. Mutations in NBEAL2, encoding a BEACH protein, cause gray platelet syndrome. Nat Genet 2011: 43 (8): 738–740. 2. Albers CA, Cvejic A, Favier R et al. Exome sequencing identifies NBEAL2 as the causative gene for gray platelet syndrome. Nat Genet 2011: 43 (8): 735–737. 3. Gunay-Aygun M, Falik-Zaccai TC, Vilboux T et al. NBEAL2 is mutated in gray platelet syndro...

BACKGROUND Allergic diseases including asthma, allergic rhinitis (AR) and eczema are common chronic diseases in children. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of asthma, AR and eczema in Sari, Iran. METHODS This study was carried out on all elementary schools selected as a cluster from February 2010 to July 2010 in Sari, North of Iran. A questionnaire was provided accordi...

1 Eunice Ratna Sari, translate-easy.com, [email protected] Abstract A design project is a social process that typically involves social interaction and collaboration among people with different backgrounds. Within the process, the pattern of social interaction and collaboration is not always trivial. To cope with these challenges, a designer needs to be equipped with some good social skil...

Majid Mehrasa 1,†, Edris Pouresmaeil 2,3,†, Sasan Zabihi 4,†, Juan C. Trujillo Caballero 5,† and João P. S. Catalão 2,3,6,*,† 1 Young Researchers and Elite Club, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari 47136, Iran; [email protected] 2 INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal; [email protected] 3 C-MAST, Univer...

Sari pandan merupakan hasil ekstraksi daun pandan. siap pakai yang beredar di Indonesia mayoritas berbentuk pasta, memiliki beberapa kelemahan, diantaranya mudah rusak, lengket, dan susah ditakar. Pembuatan sari dalam bentuk bubuk diharapkan dapat meningkatkan mutu Metode digunakan penelitian ini adalah pengeringan spray drying vakum. Pengujian kadar air menunjukkan bahwa dibuat dengan metode l...