Assessing the effects of global warming and local social and economic conditions on the malaria transmission

OBJECTIVE: To show how a mathematical model can be used to describe and to understand the malaria transmission. METHODS: The effects on malaria transmission due to the impact of the global temperature changes and prevailing social and economic conditions in a community were assessed based on a previously presented compartmental model, which describes the overall transmission of malaria. RESULTS/CONCLUSIONS: The assessments were made from the scenarios produced by the model both in steady state and dynamic analyses. Depending on the risk level of malaria, the effects on malaria transmission can be predicted by the temperature ambient or local social and-economic conditions.

Early western travels, 1748-1846; a series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the aborigines and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement,

Vol. 25 (81 plates, fold. map) 53 cm.

Toothache and social and economic conditions among adolescents in Northeastern Brazil

O objetivo deste estudo foi relacionar dor de dente com condi����o socioecon��mica, acesso aos servi��os de sa��de bucal e estilo de vida em adolescentes do munic��pio de Sobral, Cear��, desenvolvido com delineamento transversal anal��tico, com amostra composta por 688 indiv��duos. A preval��ncia de dor de dente no grupo pesquisado foi de 31,8%. Para avaliar a rela����o entre as vari��veis independentes e a dor de dente, realizou-se teste de associa����o pelo qui-quadrado, estimando-se a raz��o de preval��ncias por meio da regress��o de Poisson. Os fatores que mais demonstraram rela����o com a dor de dente foram severidade da c��rie, motivo do atendimento odontol��gico relacionado com urg��ncia, frequ��ncia ao dentista e recebimento de escova na escola. Observou-se que a alta preval��ncia de dor de dente em adolescentes est�� diretamente relacionada ��s condi����es de acesso, assim como ��s caracter��sticas das a����es desenvolvidas pelos servi��os de sa��de. Assim como h�� necessidade da implanta����o de servi��os vinculados �� promo����o de sa��de, pautados pela equidade e integralidade, �� necess��ria a implanta����o de servi��os de urg��ncia que n��o simplesmente intervenham na dor de forma mutiladora, mas a encarem como mecanismo de est��mulo ao desenvolvimento de procedimentos de preven����o das doen��as bucais.

The Russian empire of to-day and yesterday; the country and its peoples, together with a brief review of its history, past and present, and a survey of its social, political, and economic conditions,

Bibliography: p. 477-480.

The new blockbuster film sequel : changing cultural and economic conditions within the film industry

Film sequels are a pervasive part of film consumption practices and have become an important part of the decision making process for Hollywood studios and producers. This thesis indicates that sequels are not homogenous groups of films, as they are often considered, but offer a variety of story construction and utilize a variety of production methods. Three types of blockbuster sequel sets are identified and discussed in this thesis. The Traditional Blockbuster Sequel Set, as exemplified by Back to the Future (1985, 1989, 1990) films, is the most conventional type of sequel set and capitalizes on the winning formula of the first film in the franchise. The MultiMedia Sequel Set, such as The Matrix (1999,2003) trilogy, allows the user/viewer to experience and consume the story as well as the world of the film through many different media. The Lord a/ the Rings (2001, 2002, 2003) set of films is an illustration of The Saga Sequel Set where plot lines are continuous over the entire franchise thus allowing the viewer to see the entire set as a unified work. The thesis also demonstrates how the blockbuster sequel sets, such as the Pirates a/ the Caribbean (2003, 2006, 2007) franchise, restructure the production process of the Hollywood film industry.

��Corruption�� and social and economic criminal law: criminology, criminal policy, political science and law&economics - a new idea about criminal liability of legal entities

Abstract: If we think there is a significant number of legal offshore in the globalized world, then there is not even a global consensus about what ��corruption�� is. The ��illegal corruption�� in a country may be legal in another. Moreover, the great global corruption is above the law or above democratic States. And not all democratic States are ��Rule of Law��. Therefore, the solution is global earlier in time and space law, democratic, free and true law. While the human being does not reach a consensus of what ��corruption�� really is, the discussion will not go further than a caricature. One of the other problems about ��corruption�� is that it is very difficult to establish the imputation of crimes, including ��corruption�� (v.g. Portugal) on some ��companies��, corporations. We have a juridical problem in the composition of the art. 11. of the Portuguese Penal Code.

An assessment of the social and economic cohesion aspects of the development of the information society in Europe

Neste trabalho pretende consolidar-se a contribui����o portuguesa para o estudo comunit��rio ���Na Assessment of the Social and Economic Cohesion Aspects of the Development of the Information Society in Europe��� elaborado por um cons��rcio europeu liderado pela Nexus Europe e em que interv��m o ISEGI- Instituto Superior de Estat��stica e Gest��o de Informa����o, da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, como parceiro nacional portugu��s.