Vaccine preventable disease notifications for Australia with disease onset dates between January and March 2000 are reviewed. During this quarter, numbers of notifications for Haemophilus influenzae type b disease and measles were the lowest ever recorded, while those for rubella were the lowest recorded since before the epidemic of spring 1992. These are promising trends that are likely to rep...

BACKGROUND Notification of tuberculosis is essential for local contact tracing and for assessing the national incidence of tuberculosis. The accuracy of notification figures is uncertain. This study examined the notification rates of all patients diagnosed as having tuberculosis at two hospitals in the East End of London over five years. METHODS In a retrospective survey of all patients aged ...

BACKGROUND Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) is a serious bacterial disease. Vaccination can prevent disease for many of the current serotypes. The aim of this investigation was to describe the notification rates of IPD in a regional area of Australia, explore changes in rates since the introduction of the population vaccine programmes in 2005 and to describe changes in the distribution of se...

INTRODUCTION In 2012 the incidence rate of tuberculosis in Poland was 19.6/100,000 but these was great variability between regions concerning notification rates (from 10.9/100,000 to 30.2/100,000). The aim of the study was to assess whether there are elements that might confirm that these differences are true. To answer this question, we compared the population of TB patients from regions with ...

This thesis develops and puts forth the principles of gradual awareness notification. It distinguishes the concepts of hard and soft notification, and defines situations where gradual awareness techniques can be of the most benefit. Furthermore, it applies gradual awareness principles to the desktop environment to produce slow-growth notification, a visual notification system relying on slowly ...

An automatic Botnet detection and notification system is developed by National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) in Taiwan to efficiently inform users of malware infections on their computers. Due to the involvement with manual work in current notification flow, the notification time may last for 48 to 60 hours. By the aid of our notification system, the infected bot can be notified ...

We conducted a randomized, controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a text-messaging system used for notification of disease outbreaks in Kenya. Health facilities that used the system had more timely notifications than those that did not (19.2% vs. 2.6%), indicating that technology can enhance disease surveillance in resource-limited settings.

Multimodal mobile notification can enable natural and implicit notification in a mobile context by adapting the output modality according to the user’s context. There are several existing models for adaptive mobile notification using context awareness. A comparison of two of these models identified several shortcomings. The IBM INS model was selected as the most appropriate model and extended t...

Notification service is a popular functionality provided by almost all modern smartphone platforms. To facilitate customization for developers, many smartphone platforms support highly customizable notifications, which allow the third party applications to specify the trigger events, the notification views to be displayed, and the allowed user operations on the notification views. In this paper...

In May 2004, OIE Member Countries adopted a resolution on the implementation of a new notification procedure. This new notification procedure led to the creation of a new World Animal Health Information System, which came into force in January 2005. In April 2006, the OIE launched a secure web application called the World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS), an online notification system f...