BACKGROUND Influenza-like illness occurs annually worldwide, with peak timing and severity varying seasonally, resulting in significant annual mortality. OBJECTIVES There were three objectives: (1) to describe the epidemiological and clinical features of hospitalised patients with severe acute respiratory infection caused by influenza and other respiratory viruses (ORVs); (2) to report the in...

regime? What about the Iran-Iraq nuclear entanglement? Can both issues be dealt with under a regional arrangement? Can new global approaches be reconciled with a regional approach in the Middle East? This article attempts to identify and explore some of these issues, examining the Middle Eastern nuclear situation in light of the experience of Iraq, North Korea, South Africa, and Latin America. ...

1 Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden 2 Ecosystem Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria 3 Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 4 Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia 5 Center for South Eas...

1Department of Computational Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543 2Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A. 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A. 4School of Engineering and Industrial Design and Centre for Construction Technology and Research, University of ...

* World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark; † International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India; ‡ Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, § PharmAccess Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ¶ Ministry of Justice, Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan; # University of Malaya, Kuala Lum...

Analysis of various isolates of Plasmodium falciparum from East and West Africa and from South-east Asia showed that some of the parasite enzymes can exist in more than one electrophoretic form. At least one form of each enzyme was common to parasites from all three regions. The enzyme forms could be used to differentiate morphologically indistinguishable samples of P. falciparum.

This paper deals with East Asian medicine in South Korea, a topic quite under-studied in social science in comparison to traditional medicine in other East Asian countries. It was only in the late 1990s that Korean medicine started to gain the attention of social scientists, sparked by controversies surrounding the pharmacy debates. Korean researchers based at Korean and Western academic instit...

The South East region contains a complete ceramic sequence, although overall the distribution of various ceramic styles is varied, with marked concentrations along the coastal regions of Sussex and Kent, and along the corridor of the Thames (Surrey). Since the 1990s the impact of developer funded archaeology has added significantly to the number of known assemblages, although the distribution o...

THE background of this project dates back to 1955 when discussions first took place between representatives of the London County Council, the South-East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, the College of General Practitioners and the London Local Medical Committee to explore the possibility of establishing a centre where diagnostic and treatment facilities would be available to local general ...