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  • 1
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    Geneva : World Health Organization
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (68 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789240022676
    Language: English
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  • 2
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Tables -- Table 1. Projected future incidence rates and cases in Africa in 2030 and 2050 under different intervention scenarios -- Table 2. Currently known zoonotic malaria parasites of non-human primates -- Table 3. Summary of challenges and lessons learned from the case studieson complex emergencies -- Figures -- Fig. 1. Key elements and goals of the Global technical strategy for malaria 2016-2030 -- Fig. 2. Distribution of gains from malaria elimination by 2017 World Bank income group -- Fig. 3. Distribution of gains from malaria elimination by 2017 malaria incidence percentile -- Fig. 4. Estimated resource needs to sustain intervention coverage at 2015 levels and incremental resource needs to scale up coverage to 90% by 2030 -- Fig. 5. Population by sustainable development goal region: estimates,1950-2020, and medium-variant projection with 95% prediction intervals, 2020-2100 -- Fig. 6. Timescales of variability for global average precipitation (A, mm/day) and temperature (B, °C) anomalies -- Fig. 7. The African distribution of dhps resistance lineages -- Fig. 8. Census-derived subnational migration data -- Fig. 9. Projected future impact on malaria endemicity of the changing environment -- Fig. 10. Projected future impact on malaria endemicity of the changingenvironment and increased coverage of existing malaria control -- Fig. 11. Projected absolute change in PfPR by 2050 at pixel level -- Fig. 12. Projected absolute change in PfPR by 2050 at the national level -- Fig. 13. Boxplots comparing statistical distributions of candidate driving factors in areas projected to eliminate versus those not projected to eliminate by 2050 in a scenario with optimistic intervention coverage -- Fig. 14. Proportion of countries reducing malaria incidence by 75% ormore by baseline incidence and income group, 2000-2016.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (147 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789240003675
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Keywords: Communicable diseases Prevention ; Health planning ; Diseases ; Electronic books
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editor -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 A Historic Paradigm Shift in Communicable Diseases in South-East Asia: From Control to Elimination -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Disease Elimination as a Goal-The Early Years -- 1.3 Disease Elimination and the Push for Universal Health Coverage -- 1.4 Elimination in the South-East Asia Region -- 1.5 The Way Forward -- References -- 2 Thailand: Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis -- 2.1 Background -- 2.2 The Process -- 2.2.1 The Initial years -- 2.2.2 Reducing Costs -- 2.2.3 Moving Towards Elimination -- 2.3 Other Factors for Success -- 2.4 Maintenance of Validation -- References -- 3 Yaws: Freeing Young Children in India from an Old Scourge -- 3.1 Background -- 3.2 Disease of the Young -- 3.3 India's Approach to Yaws Elimination -- 3.4 Challenges Faced by India in Its Efforts to Eliminate Yaws -- 3.5 Yaws Elimination in India: Key Elements of Success -- 3.6 The Road Ahead: Lessons Learned -- References -- 4 The Maldives: A Long Battle to Banish Malaria -- 4.1 Background -- 4.2 Challenges Faced in Eliminating Malaria -- 4.3 The Maldives' Approach to Malaria Elimination: Long Road -- 4.4 Key Elements of Success -- 4.5 Moving Forward: Lessons Learnt -- References -- 5 Unburdening the Poor: Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis in the Maldives -- 5.1 Background -- 5.2 Blueprint for Elimination -- 5.3 Overcoming Challenges to Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis -- 5.4 Long Campaign to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis -- 5.5 Key Elements of Success -- 5.6 Moving Forward: Lessons Learnt -- References -- 6 Sri Lanka: Long Battle to Eliminate Malaria -- 6.1 Background -- 6.2 Malaria in Sri Lanka -- 6.3 A Century of Malaria Control -- 6.4 Challenges to Malaria Control -- 6.5 Elements of Success -- 6.6 Lessons Learnt -- 6.7 Challenges Ahead.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (133 pages)
    ISBN: 9789811655661
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Public Health Ser.
    DDC: 381
    Language: English
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  • 4
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    Singapore : Springer
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Scale Matters: Industry Chain Restructuring Amid Deglobalization -- 1.1 Deglobalization: History Has Not Come to an End -- 1.2 Spatial Economy: The World is Not Flat -- 1.3 Non-Neutrality of Technology: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Security -- 1.4 Economies of Scale: China's New Advantage -- 1.5 Return of Industrial Policy: New Wine in an Old Bottle -- 2 Overview of the Industry Chain: From Efficiency to Security -- 2.1 The "Efficiency First" Principle of Industry Chains -- 2.1.1 Division of Labor and Transactions Are at the Core of Industry Chains, Value Chains, and Supply Chains -- 2.1.2 Efficiency of Industry Chains: Transaction Costs, Geographical Factors, and Economies of Scale -- 2.1.3 International Configuration of Industry Chains: Comparative Advantages, Economies of Scale, and Multinational Corporations -- 2.2 Globalization and Deglobalization -- 2.2.1 China Becomes the World's Factory by Improving Efficiency -- 2.2.2 China-US Cooperation is the Main Thread of Globalization -- 2.2.3 Deglobalization: China and the US Shift From Cooperation to Competition -- 2.3 Industry Chain Security Concerns: Controlling the Loss of Efficiency -- 2.3.1 Industry Chain Security: Understanding From Different Perspectives of Companies and Governments -- 2.3.2 Coping with Security Challenges From Rising Geopolitical Risks With a National Innovation System -- 2.3.3 Orderly Competition Between China and the US: Controlling Efficiency Losses From Deglobalization -- 3 New Advantages in Economies of Scale Amid Deglobalization -- 3.1 Economies of Scale Could Become an Important Source of Economic Growth in China -- 3.2 Theoretical Origins and Functions of Large Countries' Scale Advantages -- 3.2.1 Economies of Scale and Scope Together Constitute Large Countries' Scale Advantages.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (375 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819716470
    Language: English
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  • 5
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    Singapore : Springer
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Bribery and Other Serious Investor Misconduct in Asian International Arbitration -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Investor-State Arbitration Disputes Implicating Corruption -- 1.3 Arbitral Tribunals' Approaches to Dealing with Corruption -- 1.3.1 The 'Zero Tolerance' Approach -- 1.3.2 The 'Closer Look' Approach -- 1.3.3 The 'It Depends' Approach -- 1.4 Limited Research on 'Asian' Views on Corruption and Investment Arbitration -- 1.5 Developing Asian Perspectives on Corruption and Illegality in Investment Arbitration -- 1.6 Structure of the Book -- Notes -- References -- Part I The Economic Context of Corruption and Investment -- 2 Does Corruption Hinder Foreign Direct Investment and Growth in Asia and Beyond? The Grabbing Versus the Helping Hand Revisited -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Economic Cost of Corruption -- 2.3 Review of the Empirical Literature on Corruption -- 2.3.1 The Corruption and Investment Debate -- 2.3.2 What Do the Data Tell Us? -- 2.3.3 Empirical Analysis -- 2.4 Discussion of the Results -- 2.4.1 The Corruption-Growth-FDI Relationship -- 2.4.2 Digging Deeper: Is the Corruption-Growth-FDI Relationship Non-linear? -- 2.4.3 The Corruption-FDI Relationship -- 2.5 Conclusions -- Appendix: Sample of Asian Countries -- Notes -- References -- 3 The Effect of Corruption on Foreign Direct Investment at the Regional Level: A Positive or Negative Relationship? -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Corruption and FDI: A Controversial Relationship -- 3.3 Empirical Model and Estimations -- 3.4 Discussion and Conclusions -- Appendix: Descriptive Statistics for Table 3.2 -- Notes -- References -- Part II General Legal Issues from the Interface of Corruption, Illegality and Investment Arbitration.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (463 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819993031
    Series Statement: Asia in Transition Series v.22
    Language: English
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  • 6
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Service Composition for Smart Cities -- Consistent and Quality-Aware Service Composition in Smart Cities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Service Composition in Cyber Space -- 2.1 Background Around 2010 -- 2.2 Different Quality Aspects in Service Selection -- 2.3 Self-Adaptive Network-Aware Service Selection -- 2.4 Consistency in Service Selection -- 2.5 Service Selection in Cloud Computing -- 3 Service Composition in Physical Space -- 3.1 Background Around 2015 -- 3.2 EU-Japan Smart City Projects -- 3.3 Consistency in Physical Service Composition -- 3.4 Verification Framework -- 3.5 Runtime Adaptation -- 4 Retrospective Discussion -- 4.1 Services Computing -- 4.2 Impact on the Author -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Designing and Analyzing Human-in-the-Loop Service Compositions -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Approach -- 1.3 Structure of This Chapter -- 2 Human-in-the-Loop Service Composition -- 2.1 A Language Service Composition Example -- 2.2 Composition of Web Services and Human Activities -- 3 Empirical Study on Human-in-the-Loop Translation Services -- 3.1 Experiment Design -- 3.2 Experiment Results -- 3.3 Discussion -- 4 Human-in-the-Loop Service Design for Supporting Real-World Multilingual Activities -- 4.1 Designing Composite Services for Real-World Applications -- 4.2 Service Design Process -- 4.3 Experiment, Result and Analysis -- 5 Analyzing Crowdsourcing Workflow Models -- 5.1 Crowdsourcing Workflows -- 5.2 Modeling Iterative and Parallel Processes -- 5.3 Workflow Optimization -- 5.4 Implementing Crowdsourcing Workflow Models -- 6 Related Work -- 6.1 Human Activities in Service Composition -- 6.2 User-Centered Composite Service Design -- 6.3 Crowdsourcing Workflow Models -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Human-Machine Collaboration for a Multilingual Service Platform.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (311 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819707799
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (511 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819986316
    Series Statement: Springer Proceedings in Physics Series v.393
    Language: English
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    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (348 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789819704873
    Language: English
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  • 9
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    Geneva : World Health Organization
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (188 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789240049239
    Language: English
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  • 10
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    Online Resource
    Geneva : World Health Organization
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Assessing health systems performance for UH -- Chapter 2: Review of existing frameworks and tools -- Chapter 3: Working towards a common approac -- Chapter 4: Governance -- Chapter 5: Resource generation -- Chapter 6: Financing -- Chapter 7: Service delivery -- Chapter 8: A framework for Health System Performance Assessment -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (246 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789240042476
    Language: English
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