A trend towards the abandonment of obtaining pure culture isolates in frontline laboratories is at a crossroads with the ability of public health agencies to perform their basic mandate of foodborne disease surveillance and response. The implementation of culture-independent diagnostic tests (CIDTs) including nucleic acid and antigen-based assays for acute gastroenteritis is leaving public heal...

The importance of education in the development of human capital has been broadly acknowledged. It has also been argued that improving access to education is central in the achievement of poverty reduction and other millennium development goals (MDGs) in Africa. Gender inequalities remain manifest in many development sectors in Africa including the educational sector. The main objective of this ...

Enrolment and success rates are very crucial for any educational system in the world but they are more important for the developing countries like Bangladesh. Gender differences in enrolment and success rates are also emerging issues. This study investigated the enrolment and success rate’s status in secondary educational system of Bangladesh along with internal efficiency rates involving compl...

Supplementary Information Reduced graphene oxide: Firm support for catalytically active palladium nanoparticles and game changer in selective hydrogenations Manuela Cano, Ana M. Benito, Esteban P. Urriolabeitía, Raul Arenal and Wolfgang K. Maser ICB-CSIC, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] ISQCH-CSIC-Univ. Zaragoza, E-50009 Zaragoza, Spain LMA-INA-Univ. Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spai...

Tuberculosis (TB) kills more people than any other single infection, the global burden of TB cases and drug resistance are increasing [1], and most patients still only have access to an inadequate diagnostic test developed more than a century ago. Recent evaluations of a desktop machine called the GeneXpert MTB/ RIF that in less than two hours simultaneously detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis a...

This article examines the sociological factors that explain why some creative teams are able to produce game changers--cultural products that stand out as distinctive while also being critically recognized as outstanding. The authors build on work pointing to structural folding--the network property of a cohesive group whose membership overlaps with that of another cohesive group. They hypothes...

This paper presents experience in performing alternating voltage measurements on distribution transformers using a static frequency converter without particular control scheme. Regarding induced voltage tests, no-load and load measurements, the quality, i.e. the degree of distortion and the symmetrical shape, of the generated test voltage, deviations in measured power and the relation between d...