Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito borne zoonotic disease caused by JE virus (JEV). JE has been endemic in Terai region, the lowland plains of Nepal bordering India, since 1978. However, in recent years cases of JE has been continuously reported from high altitude zones of hills and mountains. Irrigated rice farming system, expanded pig husbandry practices, inadequate vaccine coverage, lo...

I discuss the possibility that white dwarfs might harbor habitable planets at 0.01 AU that arrive there after the red giant phase. These planets would be detectable with ground-based telescopes via deep transits of the star, and a transit survey of the nearest white dwarfs would favor detection of Earth-temperature planets, assuming they could form as close as twice the Roche limit. I show that...

In many developing countries, public service provision continues to fall short of demand. In the presence of severe infrastructure backlogs and different returns on public investment expenditure, marginal benefit incidence theory envisages that measures aimed at maximizing average access rates have contradictory impacts in the medium term. While relatively uniform expansion of access coverage a...

AIM Studies on the distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes associated with colonization of the upper respiratory tract in young children are currently of general interest because of the impact of the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) on carriage of pneumococci and the incidence of pneumococcal disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Therefore, we evaluated the coverage of 10-valent P...

Aim Studies on the distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes associated with colonization of the upper respiratory tract in young children are currently of general interest because of the impact of the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) on carriage of pneumococci and the incidence of pneumococcal disease. Material and Methods Therefore, we evaluated the coverage of 10-valent PCV...

SS precursors are the underside reflections from the upper mantle discontinuities such as those at 410 and 660 km. They are important tools for studying the existence and characteristics of mantle discontinuities both on the global and regional scales (see Deuss, 2009 for a review). Due to their sensitivity at the midpoint between source and receiver, coverage for oceanic regions is achieved wh...

Wireless Sensor Networks consist of battery-limited sensor nodes which have the ability of sensing the environment, communicating with other nodes and processing the data. Large number of sensor node deployment over a geographical area imposes some constraints on the retrieval of the data. The use of mobile sinks (e.g., Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, UAV) is an effective solution method for such larg...

Many reliability prediction techniques require an estimate for the number of residual faults. In this paper, a new theory is developed for using test coverage to estimate the number of residual faults. This theory is applied to a specific example with known faults and the results agree well with the theory. The theory is used to justify the use of linear extrapolation to estimate residual fault...

Background: In developing countries various childhood diseases lead the morbidity, mortality and irreversible losses which can be prevented by proper vaccination. This study was conducted to analyse changing trends of vaccination in India its impact on mortality, coverage each vaccine along with identification geographical areas concern. Materials methods: NFHS data published Government analyze...