Summary:  happened. There's no reason to believe the 21st century is any different than any other century. We... century, influenza pandemics have occurred an average of three times per century. In the 20th century... . The Hong Kong ...

Source: de Lijser, Peter - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University, Fullerton

Collection: Chemistry

Summary:  Panel 1 ­ Surveillance Tools for the 21st Century Peter Dawson et al. ­ A Bio-Terrorism Attack, Detect... Emergencies Andreas Reis ­ Ethical considerations in pandemic influenza preparedness and response Belinda... Bennett et al. ­ Swine Flu, Doctors and Pandemics: Is There a Duty to ...

Source: Australian National University, Department of Engineering, Solar Energy Program

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Engineering

Summary:  Science Highlight ­ May 2010 Structural Basis of Pre-existing Immunity to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic... Influenza Virus The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as the "swine flu", marks... the first human flu pandemic in 40 years and has caused significant human infection and mortality globally

Source: Wechsler, Risa H. - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Collection: Physics

Summary:  of between 10 and 40 years over the last century. 8. Previous pandemics involved a different pathogen... WCP5 Pandemic Influenza Approved September 2008 1 Health and Safety Unit Health and Safety Codes... of Practice Welfare Codes Pandemic Influenza #12;WCP5 Pandemic Influenza Approved ...

Source: Brown, Richard - School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  in February 2009. it has since spread rapidly to become the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century... Picture Big Picture Big OctOber 2009 Free n the origins of swine flu n the history of flu pandemics... pandemics Special iSSUe 'SwineFlu'sculpturebyLukeJerram ...

Source: Rambaut, Andrew - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  countries across the globe, it is called a pandemic. In the last century, several pandemics of influenza... What is Pandemic Influenza? A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. A flu pandemic occurs when... pandemic will occur or how severe it ...

Source: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

Summary:  The evolutionary emergence of pandemic influenza Troy Day1,2,*, Jean-Baptiste Andre´2,3 and Andrew... ¨bendorf, Switzerland 5 Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Pandemic influenza... of pandemic influenza strains remain incompletely understood. Here, we develop a stochastic model

Source: Day, Troy - Departments of Mathematics and Statistics & Biology, Queen's University (Kingston)

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  threat of the 21st century, and its effect has flourished in modelling influenza pandemic preparedness... transmissible than pandemic viruses of the last century, so that the basic repro- duction number of disease... pp. 1­20 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA: ...

Source: Arino, Julien - Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  review of influenza vaccines in the 21st century. Informed by the experience of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic... by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enabling end-to-end documentation and review of pandemic vaccine preparedness... in responding to the ongoing H1N1 pandemic. ...

Source: Moon, Jaekyun "Jae" - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  influenza seasons, including the three pandemics of the last century. 2. Methods 2.1. Morbidity... to 1951 (A/H1N1), and in the three pandemics of the last century. Mortality is for deaths coded... for the three influenza pandemics of last century 1918 ...

Source: Handel, Andreas - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia

Collection: Mathematics ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  pandemics occurred in the last century, and public health experts predict that another is likely some time... Page 1 New Mexico State University Pandemic Influenza - Planning Guidance for Departmental... pandemic or other emergency and recover afterwards to be fully operational. A template COOP is available

Source: Castillo, Steven P. - Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  and scientific context. Ten apparent influenza pandemics, five of which occurred during the nine- teenth century... , have been recorded over the past 300 years. The three twentieth- century pandemics--presented in Table... Impacts of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza A Pandemic: Global Challenges, ...

Source: Levin, Judith G. - Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institutes of Health

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  in the 17th Century but the pandemic which swept Europe in 1817 came after a period when cholera does... from the sixth pandemic (1899-1923) still present in South Asia and the seventh pandemic strain which... emerged in 1961. The 1990s were marked by spread of the seventh pandemic to ...

Source: Lan, Ruiting - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales

Collection: Biotechnology

Summary:  -mail: bcowling@hku.hk Introduction In 2009 the first influenza pandemic of the 21st Century was associated... Seroprevalence of Pandemic H1N1 Antibody among Health Care Workers in Hong Kong Following Receipt... : We conducted a cross-sectional study of the prevalence of antibody to ...

Source: Paris-Sud XI, Université de - Institut d'Optique, Laboratoire Charles-Fabry, Groupe d'Optique Atomique

Collection: Physics

Summary:  -documented pandemics of the 20th century in 1918 - 1919, 1957 - 1958 and 1968 - 1969 (Beran and Havlik, 2005... between the consecutive pandemics of the 20th century ranged from 11 to 40 years. It has now been 40 years... Ekonomicky casopis, 57, 2009, c. 2, s, 163 - 178 Socio-economic Impacts of ...

Source: Sevcovic, Daniel - Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Comenius University

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  . Influenza Prevention and Control. 20th Century Influenza Pandemics Which will the next pandemic resemble... Avian and Pandemic Influenza: planning and response in the University setting Howard Backer, MD... Officer #12;FluPandemic #12;Influenza · Every influenza season is unique · ...

Source: California at Berkeley, University of - Berkeley Digital Library Project

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  challenges of the 21st century ... Innovation for society #12;Climate & environment Energy Education... for Society #12;How does an IT company like IBM help fight the next pandemic? Innovation for Society #12;with... pandemic prevention Innovation for Society #12;with project ...

Source: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Cryptography Research Group

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  Intervention strategies for an influenza pandemic taking into account secondary bacterial... Revised 3 September 2009 Accepted 10 September 2009 Keywords: Influenza pandemic Epidemic control Co... predispose individuals to consecutive bacterial infections. Both during seasonal and pandemic influenza

Source: Handel, Andreas - Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Georgia

Collection: Mathematics ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  the last centuries. The bacteria Yersinia pestis are responsible for three bubonic plague pandemics (Cunha... 1 A BRIEF REVIEW ON TWO PANDEMIC ZOONOSES ZO 8091 Project report by Morten Kraabøl 2006 #12... THE ARENA OF ZOONOSES 3 PANDEMIC ZOONOSES 5 PLAGE PANDEMICS 6 The Justinian Plague ...

Source: Bech, Claus - Institutt for biologi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Business Continuity Planning Template January 2007 Introduction Three influenza pandemics occurred... in the last century, and public health experts predict that another is likely some time in the future. No one... . In the event of an influenza pandemic, UNL will have four objectives: · Minimize the risk of ...

Source: Farritor, Shane - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  in the 21st century are most welcome--for example, case examples exploring radical approaches to 114 #12... /AIDS pandemic, economic collapse, political and economic apartheid, and so forth. How are people responding

Source: Grant, James D.E. - Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Wien

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  Measures on the Transmission of SARS From Cholera to Smallpox and Beyond: Mathematical Modeling for 21st... pandemic waves in Geneva, Switzerland. Math. Biosci. Eng. (to appear, 2007) L.M.A. Bettencourt, R... . Nishiura, L.M.A. Bettencourt. Comparative estimation of the reproduction number for pandemic ...

Source: Chowell, Gerardo - Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Collection: Mathematics ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  an Epidemic: A Multi-Agent Approach," Proc. 21st Innovative Applications of Arti cial Intelligence Conf., AAAI... that contained the 2002-2003 SARS virus are a testimony to this. Nevertheless, pandemics such as the recent H1N1... , and immunocompromise. Epidemics place a huge cost upon society. The 1918 flu ...

Source: Swarup, Samarth - Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  of CDC #12;World Experience With Flu Pandemics #12;20th Century "Pandemic Flu"y H1N1 H1N1H2N2 H3N2 1920... Pandemic Flu: What To Know and What To DoWhat To Do Michele Johnson, MPH #12;What causes pandemic... deaths Flu" This was not considered a true pandemic Turned ...

Source: Utah, University of - Energy and Geoscience Institute, Geothermal Research Group

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Geosciences

Summary:  focus on how it compares with the three 20th century influenza pandemics, we believe that comparison... ), and the James F. McDonnell Foundation. References 1 Kilbourne ED. Influenza pandemics of the 20th century. Emerg... Initial human transmission dynamics of the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 ...

Source: Myers, Lauren Ancel - Section for Integrative Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  before mid-21st century. For a risk like this, preparedness is the order of the day. No one knows how... for different kinds of responses? JC:Take something like an influenza pandemic. This is an abrupt, non... -linear challenge that is very difficult to predict. The average interval between the last six ...

Source: Cohen, Joel E. - Laboratory of Populations, Rockefeller University

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  in birds. No responsible scientist has predicted with certainty that the next pandemic will be as bad... that the "new field called evolutionary epidemi- ology" is "proving" that another severe pandemic is impossible... Orent and her source, Dr. Paul W. Ewald, use in attrib- uting the severity of the 1918 pandemic

Source: Bergstrom, Carl T. - Department of Biology, University of Washington at Seattle

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  influenza was only used to describe these pandemics from the 18th century onwards (although it had previous... Keywords: Influenza A Swine flu Porcine influenza H1N1 Pandemic Zoonotic a b s t r a c t Of the 16 known... , H5, H7, H9). 3 of these have been involved in past pandemics (H1, H2, H3). Traditional ...

Source: Andrews, Anne M. - Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  and Evolution of the Western Diet: Health Implications for the 21st Century. Am J Clin Nutr 81:341-54. Draper, P... Grandmothers' Productivity and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa John Bock Department... and the HIV/AIDS pandemic Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 23(1) ...

Source: Bock, John - Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  , is the fact that, in the well-connected world of the 21st century, no country is isolated from the potential... Controlling Pandemic Flu: The Value of International Air Travel Restrictions Joshua M. Epstein1... Background. Planning for a possible influenza pandemic is an extremely high ...

Source: Rutgers University, Rutgers Center for Operations Research

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  free from pandemic cholera for over a century. In this paper, we look at the relationships among... Reserved. Pandemic Spread of Cholera: Genetic Diversity and Relationships within the Seventh Pandemic Clone... for modification 9 August 2001/Accepted 15 October 2001 The seventh cholera ...

Source: Lan, Ruiting - School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales

Collection: Biotechnology

Summary:  Review Modeling influenza epidemics and pandemics: insights into the future of swine flu (H1N1) Brian J Coburn... for the 1918­1919 pandemic strain (mean R0~2: range 1.4 to 2.8) and is comparable to R0 values estimated... studies we conclude it is theoretically possible that a pandemic of H1N1 could be contained. However

Source: Blower, Sally - Department of Psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  AVI FoodSystems, Inc. Pandemic Business Continuity Overview AVI Foodsystems, Inc. utilizes... a Pandemic Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) which is a living document. This document serves... as an overview of our business continuity plan as it relates to a pandemic event. Our primary focus is the safety

Source: Cinabro, David - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University

Collection: Physics

Summary:  the 20th century, there were three such pandemics, the most notable of which was the 1918 Spanish... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 E. Pandemic Periods... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Source: Ruoff, Rodney S.- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science

Summary:  . McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Initiative Award (WMG). Previous versions of this manu... of a pandemic does not arise independently from characteristics of either the host or disease, but rather from... ­595 IN T ROD U CTI ON At the turn of the 20th century, rinderpest swept ...

Source: Grether, Gregory - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Will the announced influenza pandemic really happen? Rinaldo B. Schinazi University of Colorado... the probability of an influenza pandemic. Under a random walk model the probability that all pandemics between... the probability that no pandemic occurs during at least 60 years is 14%. These probabilities are ...

Source: Schinazi, Rinaldo - Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  Host Dependent Evolutionary Patterns and the Origin of 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza The origin of H... The recent spread of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza has shown the need to identify emerging pathogens... greater than that of Human DNA [1]. The genomic similarity of different H1N1 pandemic isolates suggests

Source: Columbia University - Jerome L. and Dawn Greene Infectious Disease Laboratory

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  lacking immunity to the new virus sets the stage for a pandemic. Over the last century, the globe has... University of California, Berkeley "OUTBREAK 2007" Pandemic Influenza Leadership Tabletop Exercise... Pandemic influenza poses an imminent threat to the global community. A pandemic ...

Source: California at Berkeley, University of - Berkeley Digital Library Project

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  is consistent with the patterns observed during the three influenza pandemics of the twentieth century (Figure 3... . This is consistent with estimated attack rates for the three major pandemics of the 20th century (with the exception... The Shifting Demographic Landscape of Pandemic ...

Source: Bansal, Shweta - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University; Myers, Lauren Ancel - Section for Integrative Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  MassCommunicationSpecialist2ndClassKellieArakawa With guidance from the Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, a new... 're facing from climate change, pandemic, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, economic

Source: Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  --and a glimpse into an exciting future. As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, we face... to potential pandemics. Our virtual "macroscope" can now be used on ourselves, as well as on our planet

Source: Narasayya, Vivek - Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group, Microsoft Research

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  A Delay Differential Model for Pandemic Influenza with Antiviral Treatment Murray E. Alexandera,c, Seyed M... for mitigating the severity of a new influenza pandemic strain. However, the suc- cess of this strategy requires... of a pandemic strain, initiating therapy immediately upon diagnosis can significantly increase the ...

Source: Röst, Gergely - Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  . A yearly vaccine (normally given in an injection or "shot") can help to prevent it. A Flu Pandemic Can... ) are immune to If the pandemic is severe there may be: · millions of sick people and many deaths · a short... animals---or a mixture of these viruses. A Flu Pandemic Could Happen at Anytime No one can say when or how

Source: Noakes, David R. - Department of Chemistry and Physics, Virginia State University

Collection: Physics

Summary:  Organization had declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21st Century. At the same time, manufacturers... Cross-Reactive T Cells Are Involved in Rapid Clearance of 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Virus... -reactive T cell responses play an important role in early clearance of infection ...

Source: Broman, Karl W. - Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  to tackle the challenges of chaotic environments that characterise 21st century crises more effectively... security does not provide the necessary framework to manage the challenges posed by 21st century... in the course of two exercises, dealing with ...

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  , DVM, PhD 20th and 21st Century Veterinary Public Health Success Stories #12;Bias to Presentation US... and Kilbourn, Ross, more! #12;20th and 21st Century Success Stories Food security, safety, systems... preparedness and response Genetics, genomics, proteomics ...

Source: Ford, James - Department of Genetics, Stanford University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  1 The Agricultural Research Enterprise at the Dawn of the 21st Century The Agricultural Research... Enterprise at the Dawn of the 21st Century Sonny RamaswamySonny Ramaswamy OverviewOverview ·Where do we come... · Molecular/Medical · Environment · ...

Source: Purdue University, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Human-Environment Modeling and Analysis Laboratory

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  05 May 2010 1 A Smart Transportation System: Improving Mobility for the 21st Century Samuel J... decade of the 21st century has been remarkably eventful--indeed, disruptive. And I would suggest to you... years. But as we look ahead to the needs and challenges of the ...

Source: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Cryptography Research Group

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  of infected individuals from place to place. Historical pandemics, like the 14th-century plague, only moved... the statistical rules that govern human travel - in the light of an imminent flu pandemic a knowledge of great... ). The worldwide spread of disease - particularly, pandemics with disastrous ...

Source: Amaral, Luis A.N. - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

Collection: Physics ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  Pandemic Checklist Page 1 of 6 Checklists: USDHHS LTC Pandemic Influenza Checklist U.S. DEPARTMENT... OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES LONG TERM CARE AND OTHER RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES PANDEMIC INFLUENZA CHECKLIST... Planning for pandemic influenza is critical for ensuring a sustainable healthcare response. The ...

Source: Hayes, Jane E. - Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  , became the primary health concern of the 21st century. Although various strains of avian influenza have... not be considered for raising an alert in case of pandemics. More relevant are the specialized molecular biology... » is a likely source of the next human influenza pandemic [1]. ...

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  1 PANDEMIC INFLUENZA CHECKLIST FOR BUSINESSES #12;2 Pandemic influenza checklist for businesses... the World Health Organisation is that countries should be planning for a possible influenza pandemic... , although timing of onset is highly unpredictable. In the event of an influenza pandemic, businesses

Source: Brown, Richard - School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  PANDEMIC INFLUENZA background briefing Biomedicine Forum 5 November 2008 compiled by David Evans... Images) Page 1 #12;THE PANDEMIC THREAT PenandinkdrawingbyE.Noble,c.1918 `Good evening, I'm the new... influenza!' Page 2 #12;Consequences of an influenza pandemic THE PANDEMIC THREAT DEATH If the next ...

Source: Rambaut, Andrew - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  . And then, at the darkest moment, salvation arrived... from Africa. The 21st-century plague had largely... and early 21st century, with large parts of the population living in extreme poverty, defined as having... of the global avian-flu pandemic. Experts had warned ...

Source: Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Center for Life Cycle Analysis

Collection: Renewable Energy

Summary:  ., Wilson, S. (2009) Healthcare worker's attitudes to working during pandemic influenza: a qualitative study... a key role in any response to pandemic influenza, and the UK healthcare system's ability to cope during... an influenza pandemic will depend, to a large extent, on the number of HCWs who are able and willing to work

Source: Heinke, Dietmar - School of Psychology, University of Birmingham

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  Information for the BNC website regarding Flu Pandemic If you start to develop flu symptoms... will then inform the Flu Pandemic Coordinator who will ensure that you receive food etc. in your room and are cared... Agency: www.hpa.org.uk NHS Direct: www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk Telephone: 0845 4647 University Flu Pandemic

Source: Herz, Laura M. - Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Collection: Physics ; Materials Science

Summary:  Approved by REPAC on January 20, 2010 Pandemic Plan for Office of Research Ethics Preamble During... a time of emergency, such as pandemic illness, it is essential that research continues to have proper... oversight, particularly for research that either focuses on the pandemic itself, or carries risk

Source: Squire, Jeremy - Laboratory Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  www.ithree institute.uts.edu.au Infectious Disease ­ a 21st Century Challenge The ithree institute... , partnerships, licensing and spin outs to work together to meet the 21st Century challenges in infectious... and drug resistant pathogens · The potential threat to ...

Source: Baird, Mark - Climate and Environmental Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

Summary:  awareness of the very real threat posed by an influenza pandemic," says Stephen Eubank, deputy director... as possible if a flu pandemic were to be unleashed on the world. Our research team tries to help... at the impact of social contacts on the spread of a disease pandemic in an urban environment." Eubank

Source: Virginia Tech, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Influenze Outbreak Project

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  influenza epidemics and pandemics. Furthermore, we show that vaccination delays and multiple introductions... estimates from the 1918 influenza pandemic. In addition, we consider the impact of vaccination delay... , assumes mortal- ity rates to be as estimated for the 1918 flu pandemic. These are high for healthy young

Source: Myers, Lauren Ancel - Section for Integrative Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  influenza epidemics and pandemics. Furthermore, we show that vaccination delays and multiple introductions... estimates from the 1918 influenza pandemic. In addition, we consider the impact of vaccination delay... , assumes mortal- ity rates to be as estimated for the 1918 flu pandemic. These are high for healthy young

Source: Bansal, Shweta - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  centennial anniversary in 2012 and to make an even greater impact in its second century of teaching... challenges: entrenched poverty, pandemic disease, re- ligious intolerance, terrorism, fuel and water... is the Vision for the Second Century. This 10-point strategic plan will expand Rice's reach in critical areas

Source: Richards-Kortum, Rebecca - Department of Bioengineering, Rice University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  centennial anniversary in 2012 and to make an even greater impact in its second century of teaching... challenges: entrenched poverty, pandemic disease, re- ligious intolerance, terrorism, fuel and water... is the Vision for the Second Century. This 10-point strategic plan will expand Rice's reach in critical areas

Source: Richards-Kortum, Rebecca - Department of Bioengineering, Rice University

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  is an important part of the solution: energy self sufficiency, environment and climate change, 21st-century life... on challenges as diverse as pandemics, disease detection and treatment, global warming, banking meltdowns... warming, pandemics, and even the world economy. More than 50 faculty members and ...

Source: Benos, Takis - Department of Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh; Sibille, Etienne - Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition & Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  #12;2 billion in 21st century Resources & Skills 1.5 B people 3 billion in 18th century with less than... Need small scale inexpensive solutions #12;(3) Nurturing 21st century global citizens Emphasis... are increasing rapidly · Nurturing ...

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  CONSULTATION RESPONSE `Wellcome Trust response to UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy May... 2011 Page 1 of 4 Department of Health (DH): UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy Response... to this consultation. In light of recent lessons learned during the H1N1 (2009) pandemic, we are pleased that the DH

Source: Rambaut, Andrew - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  of the 21st century (e.g., [21]). A number of studies have now confirmed that this particular virus emerged... sarisbro@uottawa.ca Abstract. The severity of influenza epidemics, which can potentially become a pandemic... - lar virus to emerge and to cause a human pandemic. This lack of ...

Source: Aris-Brosou, Stéphane - Department of Biology, University of Ottawa

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  a flight ban in the context of pandemic planning. Recent modeling efforts simulating the spread of pandemic... traffic volume by over 300% (Figure 1A) [7]. Indeed, during the earlier part of the last century when air... could delay a pandemic by two months [9]--but we have shown here that this prediction is ...

Source: Bjørnstad, Ottar Nordal - Departments of Entomology & Biology, Pennsylvania State University

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Kroto (Chemistry) Science in the 21st Century 3 W TR 2:00-:15 ISC 2937-4 11379 Simon Ostrach The Impact... 20th century and the Holocaust at mid-century--both of which spawned a considerable literature... 20th century and the Holocaust at ...

Source: McQuade, D. Tyler - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University

Collection: Chemistry

Summary:  of epidemic plague belong to the class of major pandemics that occur very rarely ­ about once a century... VOLCANIC DRY FOGS, CLIMATE COOLING, AND PLAGUE PANDEMICS IN EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST RICHARD B... consequences of seven intense volcanic dry fogs of the past 21 centuries, detected in Europe and the ...

Source: Fridlind, Ann - Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  Pandemic Influenza: A Guide for Individuals and Families GET INFORMED. BE PREPARED. This guide... is designed to help you understand the threat of a pandemic influenza outbreak in our community. It describes... common sense actions you can take NOW in preparing for and preventing a pandemic. Being prepared may help

Source: Christensen, Dan - Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  A Delay Differential Model for Pandemic Influenza with Antiviral Treatment Murray E. Alexander1... as the primary public health strategy for mit- igating the severity of a new influenza pandemic strain. However... . Our findings show that, due to uncertainty in the attack rate of a pandemic strain, initiating therapy

Source: Röst, Gergely - Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  subject, we show that an influenza pandemic with a burden comparable to that of 20th-century pan- demics... influenza pandemics Fabrice Carrat*1,2, Julie Luong1,3, Hervé Lao1, Anne-Violaine Sallé1, Christian Lajaunie... : With an influenza pandemic seemingly imminent, we constructed a model simulating the ...

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  UnBlinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century Unblinking in Mobile Learning... Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century Motivation Mobile technology can be a powerful tool... Blinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the ...

Source: Agogino, Alice M. - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  Bringing our 19Th CENTURY POWeR GRiD into the 21st CENTURY Issue 2--April 2010 USF College... into the 21st century? Meet Dr. Alex Domijan, Jr., Director of the Power Center for Utility Explora- tions... into the ...

Source: Arslan, Hüseyin - Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  to the opportunity to develop a dynamic MFA for the 21st Century, a time in which diversity and communication... Infectious Diseases: Pandemic Flu and Avian Influenza held in October. Kolata, author of the national... bestseller, Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and ...

Source: Harrington, James A.- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers University

Collection: Materials Science

Summary:  Did You Know #12;Did you know. . . . Providing Leadership for Positive Change in 21st Century... for Positive Change in 21st Century Communities COE now has the following graduate degrees: ·Master of Science... . . . . Providing Leadership for Positive Change in ...

Source: Lu, Guoiqng - Department of Biology, University of Nebraska-Omaha

Collection: Biotechnology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  a geographic sequence and time line for the origin of subtype B and the emergence of pandemic HIV/AIDS out... ­1970) and then spread there for some years before successfully dispersing else- where. A ``pandemic'' clade... . The emergence of the pandemic variant of subtype B was an important turning point in the history of AIDS

Source: Dean, Matthew D. - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; Nachman, Michael - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  that without adequate planning and preparations, an influenza pandemic in the 21st century has the potential... diseases such as pandemic influenza is a top public health priority. We describe EpiSimdemics ­ a scalable... Pandemic diseases such as avian influenza ...

Source: Virginia Tech, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Influenze Outbreak Project

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  ..........................................................................................................10 American Conservatism and its Critics in the 21st Century... ...........................................................15 American Foreign Policy in the 21st ...

Source: Cheriton, David R. - Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  recognizedtopossessseveraldistinctive ultrastructural features." From a 21st century perspective, this whole debate about the origin... the conquest of the Andean Aztecs by the Spanish in the early 16th century. The route whereby the potato... there was extensive trade between Ireland and Spain in the 16th ...

Source: Griffith, Gareth - Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  to advance those interests in the 21st century world. But that is a document written by specialists... generations effectively for the 21st century economy. Our health care system lags increasingly behind... to the changes of the ...

Source: Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  experience to keep pace $vith the chang- ing needsof today's student, tomor- row's employer, and a 21st-century... is helpingthe U monitor a flu pandemic.The new Minnesota Centerof Excellence for Influenza

Source: Minnesota, University of - Center for Distributed Robotics

Collection: Engineering

Summary:  in the 21st century. Its impact on the nation's health has been compared to that of smoking. One... already saved millions of lives." "This centre aims to take this type of work into the 21st century... to plan for and respond to new epidemics and ...

Source: Cambridge, University of - Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,Atmospheric Dynamics Group

Collection: Physics ; Geosciences

Summary:  Three pandemics have been attributed to plague in the last 1,500 years. Yersinia pestis caused... and third pandemics, respec- tively. To test this hypothesis, we designed an original genotyping system... and second pandemics, this system identified original sequences that matched those of Y. pestis Orientalis

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  into a pandemic." There have been three pandemics in the 20th century, the worst of which was the Spanish flu... Convocation April 21st. The recipient receives a monetary award to conduct teaching programs at the U... of the Year in 1990. He is a member of the Campaign for the ...

Source: Brye, Kristofor R. - Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, University of Arkansas

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  [n] [influenza] pandemic than at any time since 1968" [1]. Influenza A (H5N1) viruses have reached high... human to human, equipping it to cause a new pandemic. Multiple measures are required to prevent... such a pandemic and, if these fail, to detect it, check its spread, and mitigate its effects. Attention has

Source: Bergstrom, Carl T. - Department of Biology, University of Washington at Seattle; Robins, James M.- Departments of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Harvard University

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Mathematics

Summary:  .......................................................................................................................... 16 The recurrent pandemics of cholera... .................................................................................................................... 28 INTRODUCTION The great medical advances made during the first several decades of the 20th ...

Source: Gottgens, Hans - Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  flu pandemic case study, and the importance of research and scientific evidence in informing... and the research community to ensure a timely and rapid response to the H1N1 pandemic; · the need to address... regulatory issues to facilitate research that can inform policy during a pandemic and infectious disease

Source: Rambaut, Andrew - School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Collection: Biology and Medicine

Summary:  University of Hawai`i at Hilo Pandemic Flu Plan Ken Ikeda, Environmental Health & Safety Officer... , 808-933-3300 Debra Fitzsimons, VC for Administrative Affairs, 808-974-7750 April 2009 #12;UHH Pandemic... WILL THE UNIVERSITY DO IN THE EVENT OF A PANDEMIC? ..... 4 2.0 PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

Source: Wiegner, Tracy N. - Marine Science Department, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

Summary:  Competition Palmetto Regional Researchers study the human factor in spread of pandemic illness On the Staff... ." On The Staff Side Researchers study the human factor in spread of pandemic illness Industrial engineers Sandra... of an impending pandemic by monitoring signals in human behavior. The system could result in using a ...

Source: Hoffacker, Jo - Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  #12;3 12 SCIENTISTS ON THE 21ST CENTURY TINTA PUBLISHING HOUSE BUDAPEST ­ HUNGARY 2009 #12... - uiew.for the "12 Scientists on the 21st Centuiy" uolume. As the editors szlggested we should... field? As far as the 21" century is concerned, the major issues facing the ...

Source: Heaton, Thomas H. - Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Collection: Geosciences ; Engineering

Summary:  Harold Kroto (Chemistry) Science in the 21st Century 3 W TR 2:00-3:15 HTL 218 HUM 2937 ­ Humanities... with the XIVth century and the debates which accompanied such crucial events in European history as the exile... Europe, the birth of protestant states in the XVIth century, the ...

Source: McQuade, D. Tyler - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University

Collection: Chemistry

Summary:  Uncertainty: Theory in the 21st Century A Postgraduate Symposium CALL FOR PAPERS Saturday 11th June... ' ­ Zygmunt Bauman We enter the second decade of the 21 st Century less certain than ever about who `we' are... st Century ...

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Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  -Medical.Net View Clip University of Arizona Pandemic Drill 11/16/2010 Fox-11 News View Clip University of Arizona... Pandemic Drill 11/16/2010 KVOA-TV News View Clip University of Arizona Pandemic Drill UA Valley Fever

Source: Arizona, University of - Center for Gamma-Ray Imaging

Collection: Engineering ; Biology and Medicine

Summary:  1 The 2007 IPCC Report: A 20th Century Mathematician Ponders the 21st Century Predictions Richard... to Local Action January 8, 2008 The 2007 IPCC Report: A 20th Century Mathematician Ponders the 21st Century... Predictions 1. ...

Source: Zeeman, Mary Lou - Department of Mathematics, Bowdoin College

Collection: Mathematics

Summary:  - 1 - Positive attitudes of French general practitioners towards A/H1N1 influenza pandemic... .01.027 #12;- 2 - Summary: Attitudes of general practitioners (GPs) towards A/H1N1 pandemic vaccination... of GPs in four French regions, 885 (61.7%) were willing to accept A/H1N1 pandemic vaccination

Source: Paris-Sud XI, Université de - Institut d'Optique, Laboratoire Charles-Fabry, Groupe d'Optique Atomique

Collection: Physics

Summary:  -7o C by the end of the 21st century (Christensen et al. 2007). Rainfall is likely to remain about... was not as warm as the predicted climate for the late 21st century) resulted in northeastward move- ment... the range of possibilities for the future of BWCAW forests ...

Source: Minnesota, University of - Department of Forest Resources, Forest Ecology Group

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

Summary:  , it is certain that without adequate planning and preparations, an influenza pandemic in the 21st century has... General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation, Human Factors, Performance 1. INTRODUCTION Pandemics... such as avian influenza pose a serious threat to global public health ...

Source: Virginia Tech, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Influenze Outbreak Project

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

Summary:  to manage the challenges posed by 21st -Century catastrophic threats." The Federal Response to Hurricane... Katrina ­ Lessons Learned The White House, 23 February 2006 [p. 52] Crises in the 21st century differ... , but especially for the ...

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

Collection: Mathematics