Ever since the Government of India established the “National Knowledge Commission” under the chairmanship of Pitroda[1] to promote awareness of the significance of the growth of knowledge in developing a knowledge-based society, continued efforts have been made to generate new ideas and innovations in different sectors of knowledge. Establishment of a National Innovation Council was a first ste...

This paper aims to analyse the economy-wide implications of a carbon tax applied on the Chilean electricity generation sector. In order to analyse the macroeconomic impacts, both an energy sectorial model and a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model have been used. During the year 2014 a carbon tax of 5 US$/tCO2e was approved in Chile. This tax and its increases (10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 US$...

In this paper, we study a semilinear parabolic problem $$\begin{aligned} u_t +A u = f(t,u), \;\, t>\tau ; \quad u(\tau ) u_0 \in X, \end{aligned}$$ in Banach space where $$A:D(A) \subset X \rightarrow X$$ is an almost sectorial operator. This locally well-posed the sense of mild solutions. By exploring properties semigroup growth $$1-\alpha $$ generated by $$-A$$ , prove that local solution act...

Rising numbers of campylobacteriosis case notifications in Switzerland resulted in an increased attention to acute gastroenteritis (AG) in general. Patients with a laboratory-confirmed Campylobacter infection perceive their disease as severe and around 15% of these patients are hospitalized. This study aimed at estimating healthcare costs due to AG and campylobacteriosis in Switzerland. We used...

BACKGROUND Integrated vector management strategies depend on local eco-bio-social conditions, community participation, political will and inter-sectorial partnership. Previously identified risk factors for persistent Triatoma dimidiata infestation include the presence of rodents and chickens, tiled roofs, dirt floors, partial wall plastering and dog density. METHODS A community-based interven...

PURPOSE We previously developed a method to measure visual function progression using "Progression sectors," which were derived from a clustering analysis of pointwise rates of glaucomatous visual field (VF) progression; however, only short series of VFs, where pointwise linear regression (PLR) is typically not reliable, were analyzed. The purpose of the current study is to further investigate ...