Background South Sudan has rolled out a neglected tropical disease programme, which envisaged deworming campaigns in states endemic for soil transmitted helminth infections and schistosomiasis. Methods In 2016, two deworming campaigns targeting school-age children were performed in Central Equatoria. Distribution sites were set up in primary schools, Boma Health Initiative headquarters, healt...

Social media has been used for political campaigns of presidential candidates in a number of democratic countries, including Indonesia.The candidates for president and vice president have been following the latest trends in the virtual world by using social media such as: 1) Facebook, and 2) Twitter.The author's continuing research with a focus on the popularity of candidates for president and ...

DO P O L I T I C A L C A M PA I G N S M AT T E R ? This question, like so many in political science, seems natural, important, and straightforward. Yet the answer founders on the difAculty of deAning both the subject and the predicate. What do we mean by political campaigns? How might they matter? This essay attempts to organize the study of campaigns by marking its boundaries and by ordering q...

Donald R. Roberts, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA describes the successful history of the use of DDT for the eradication of malaria and how single issue anti-DDT campaigners have compromised the success of this programme. Email:[email protected] Contact information:118 First St, Clifton Forge, VA 2...

This paper reports the first effort into integrating OAEI and SEALS evaluation campaigns. OAEI is an annual evaluation campaign for ontology matching systems. The 2010 campaign includes a new modality in coordination with the SEALS project. This project aims at providing standardized resources (software components and data sets) for automatically executing evaluations of typical semantic web to...

Educational technology requires a delivery mechanism in order to scale. One method which has not yet seen widespread use is the educational campaign: large-scale, short-term events focused on a specific educational topic, such as the Hour of Code campaign. These are designed to generate media coverage and lend themselves nicely to collaborative or competitive goals, thus potentially leveraging ...