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Mars Surface Operations via Low-Latency Telerobotics from Phobos [PDF]

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To help assess the feasibility and timing of Low-Latency Telerobotics (LLT) operations on Mars via a Phobos telecommand base, operations concepts (ops cons) and timelines for several representative sequences for Mars surface operations have been ...
Lupisella, Mark, Wright, Michael
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Representations of Africa in US Media: A Semiotic Analysis of Ebola: The Doctor’s Story and Body Team 12 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Western media has often been criticized for biased coverage of happenings in and around Africa. The 2014 Ebola outbreak created a lot of media attention for West Africa, and by extension, the entire continent.
Akinpelu, Olubusola
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Will containment of wild poliovirus in laboratories and inactivated poliovirus vaccine production sites be effective for global certification?

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
The absolute laboratory containment of any virus cannot be guaranteed, but a wealth of experience indicates that effective containment of wild poliovirus materials for global certification is technically and operationally feasible.
Dowdle Walter R.   +4 more
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Are incentives everything? payment mechanisms for health care providers in developing countries [PDF]

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This paper assesses the extent to which provider payment mechanisms can help developing countries address their leading health care problems. It first identifies four key problems in the health care systems in developing countries: 1) public facilities ...
Gauri, Varun
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Caracterización de los accidentes por exposición a agente biológico en una población de estudiantes de medicina de Bucaramanga Characterization of biological accidents in medical students population from Bucaramanga

open access: yesInfectio, 2012
Introducción: Los accidentes biológicos son eventos de alto riesgo por la probabilidad de infección con agentes como virus de inmunodeficiencia humana o hepatitis B.
Camilo Eduardo Lozano   +2 more
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Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005 documents Massachusetts residents' unequal exposure to environmental hazards. More specifically, the report analyzes both income basedand racially-based disparities in the geographic distribution of some 17 ...
Daniel R. Faber, Eric J. Krieg
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Framework for evaluating the risks of paralytic poliomyelitis after global interruption of wild poliovirus transmission

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
With the interruption of wild poliovirus transmission globally, the need for new policies to deal with the post certification era will rapidly arise.
Aylward R. Bruce, Cochi Stephen L.
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Certification of polio eradication: process and lessons learned

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Since the 1988 World Health Assembly resolution to eradicate poliomyelitis, considerable progress has been made towards interrupting the transmission of wild poliovirus globally. A formal process for the certification of polio eradication was established
Smith Joseph   +3 more
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A Path to Planetary Protection Requirements for Human Exploration: A Literature Review and Systems Engineering Approach [PDF]

open access: yes
As systems, technologies, and plans for the human exploration of Mars and other destinations beyond low Earth orbit begin to coalesce, it is imperative that frequent and early consideration is given to how planetary protection practices and policy will ...
Conley, Cassie   +2 more
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Polio control after certification: major issues outstanding

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2004
Now that the global eradication of wild poliovirus is almost within sight, planning for the post-certification era is becoming a priority issue. It is agreed that a stockpile of appropriate polio vaccines will need to be established, and a surveillance ...
Fine Paul E.M.   +2 more
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