An aerobic gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the blood and sputum of an 84-year-old, chair-bound nursing home resident with acute bacteremic pneumonia. Although the phenotypic characteristics suggested that the bacterium could be Burkholderia pseudomallei, the Vitek 1 system (GNI+), which can successfully identify 99% of B. pseudomallei strains, showed that the bacterium was "unidentifi...

The main objective of this paper is to analyze if the classification of countries provided by World Bank (WB) can be reconstructed with a linear and/or integer programming model called Multi-Group Hierarchical Discrimination if only data published by WB are used. WB has a public database of countries containing economical-financial and political factors. The parameters of the model have been de...

An elementary function that is now commonly referred to Gabor function, Gabor filter and Gabor wavelet was derived from uncertainty relation for information by Gabor to overcome the representation limit of Fourier analysis. Analyzing a signal by a Gabor filter in terms of convolution or spatial filtering, two pieces of information—phase and magnitude—can be obtained. In the paper, Gabor filter ...

Previous reviews of nutritional status in children under 5 years describe the Caribbean grouped with Latin America. This paper focuses specifically on the Caribbean and the goals and targets of the Millennium Declaration that have bearing on childhood development. The results indicate that CARICOM countries have made progress in terms of child health as assessed by gross health indicators. Yet,...

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian subcontinent with approximately 21 million people [1]. The country has been recently identified as a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) based on World Bank ratings with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3800 USD in 2015 [1, 2]. With an excellent human development index, Sri Lanka boasts of excellent health indicators on par with high income countri...

We analyze public points of interconnection Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus South to determine degree which their location preferences differ, if at all. find that there is a statistically significant difference GAFA locating South—a based on country's wealth, specifically as given by per capita GNI. Approximately 38% countries classified have point interco...

This study argues income distribution can determine Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) for a country. Two results of equality in affects GCI. One is economies scale; because consumption and production become more same structure similar products produces more. bargaining power; import export to. Therefore, country be gain monopolistic monopsonistic power foreign trade. Panel data model establish...

BACKGROUND This article describes a survey of health workers and traditional birth attendants (TBAs) which was carried out in 2005 in two regions of Ghana. The objective of the survey was to ascertain the impact of the introduction of a delivery fee exemption scheme on both health workers and those providers who were excluded from the scheme (TBAs). This formed part of an overall evaluation of ...