Thanks to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), the Vaccine Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the global health community has made enormous progress in providing already existing vaccines to developing countries. However, there still exists a gap to develop vaccines for which there is no market in the Western world, owing to low economic incentives for the privat...

BACKGROUND A well targeted flu vaccine strategy can ensure that vaccines go to those who are at the highest risk of getting infected if unvaccinated. However, prior research has not explicitly examined the association between the risk of flu infection and vaccination rates. PURPOSE This study examines the relationship between the risk of flu infection and the probability of getting vaccinated...

Dynamic domains are domains quickly created, used and discarded. Today, there are no facilities available to support dynamic domains in most network management systems. This paper introduces two new language to deal with dynamic domains. The first language is used to define new domains through the selection of managed objects. The second language, on its turn, is used to visualize already creat...

inflammatory bowel diseases are a general term for a group of chronic inflammatory diseases with unknown etiology that involve gastrointestinal system. the diagnosis of these diseases is possible with rule out of other diseases because there are not special diagnostic tests for them. nevertheless, clinical feature of these diseases are very specific and in most cases definite diagnosis are poss...

Business needs in many corporations call for learning outcomes that involve problem solutions, and creating and sharing new knowledge within workplace situations that may involve collaboration among members of a team. We argue that work-based activities (WBA) and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) are appropriate components for courses in such learning situations. Via this approac...