BACKGROUND Dengue in Venezuela is a major public health problem with an increasing incidence of severe cases. Early diagnosis and timely treatment influences the outcome of dengue illness, as delay in care-seeking is significantly associated with complications leading to severe dengue. We aimed to understand patterns of health seeking behaviour (HSB) in individuals exposed to high dengue incide...

Table S3. Socio-demographic and socioeconomic characteristics related to the intended first action of the HSB pathway in the case of fever and dengue; home treatment vs. visiting a doctor. Fever Dengue Home treatment n=88 Visit a doctor n=12 Home treatment n=31 Visit a doctor n=63 Age a n (%) n (%) n (%) n

The use of satellite-born microwave sensor for estimation of rainfall has drawing attention, and is basic to worldwide projects like TRMM and the forthcoming GPM. Promising re sults in rainfall estimates were obtained with climatologically tunned radiance – rainfall relationships derived with a leveled probability technique in the VIS/IR, suggesting that such an approach have a significant pote...

We present results of surface photometry for eleven edge-on galaxies observed with the 6-m telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The photometric scale length, the scale height, and the central surface brightness of the stellar disks for the galaxies were found using photometric cuts made parallel to the major and the minor axes for each galaxy. W...

Compensatory growth (CG) or ‘‘catch-up growth’’ is a period of super-accelerated growth following a period of suboptimal conditions (i.e., lack of prey availability or overwintering). Little is known about the CG response in pond-raised fish and whether hybrid striped bass (HSB), Morone chrysops 3 Morone saxatilis, might exhibit the rapid growth states or improvements in other production charac...