Correspondence to: Chen-Yuan Chiang, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France. e-mail: [email protected] Article submitted 20 December 2012. Final version accepted 17 February 2013. TUBERCULOSIS (TB) services aim to prevent the transmission of TB through early diagnosis of infectious TB patients and rendering them non-infectious by effective treatment. Keepin...

The diagnosis and reporting of occupational diseases are important components of any occupational disease surveillance system. These two factors were assessed in 222 Thai physicians by using a self-administered questionnaire. Study results show that a proper diagnosis of occupational disease is hampered by the following: lack of knowledge about occupational medicine; a shortage of environmental...

The economic performance of the EU has taken on a new dimension with the notion of a “new economy”. While ICT has become a major factor in explaining the prolonged, non-inflationary boom in the United States, the EU is lagging behind in most aspects of ICT. Arguing that the impact of ICT is inter-related with a range of factors, including innovation, human capital and organisational change, thi...

Purpose Section 121(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) mandates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to select remedies that " utilize permanent solutions and alternative treatment technologies or resource recovery technologies to the maximum extent practical " and to prefer remedial actions in which treatment " permanently and si...

There are many results on the possibilities of privacy leak in location-based services, and many remedies have also been suggested. In this paper, we look at this problem from an altogether different perspective claiming that privacy leaks are most likely inevitable for a lot of remedial mechanisms, and therefore it is necessary to provide means to a user to detect such leaks in advance. We spe...

Our daily life increasingly relies on automated applications. These applications provide us with rich services to support our everyday activities. For this reasons, applications are becoming important and has gained much attraction in engineering community. In recent years, in order to produce high quality software’s, many software development models have been constructed to predict which softw...

AIM Doctors must ensure they are fit to practise medicine. There is a relationship between unprofessional behaviour at medical school and in subsequent medical practice. This study describes one programme's Fitness to Practice (FtP) policy and outcomes since inception in 2005. METHOD FtP notifications were classified into: health or personal; professional attitudes, or external issues. Seriou...