Manfred Zeller, Richard L. Meyer, Zeller, Manfred, Meyer, Richard L.
Contents: List of FiguresList of TablesList of BoxesForeword Preface 1 Improving the Preformance of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach, and Impact MANFRED ZELLER AND RICHARD L. MEYERPART I Access to and Demand for Financial Services by the Poor 2 Access to and Demand for Financial Serv...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Elisabeth Heylen, Mark Zeller, Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman et al.
Rotaviruses (RVs) are responsible for more than 600,000 child deaths each year. The worldwide introduction of two life oral vaccines RotaTeq and Rotarix is believed to reduce this number significantly. Before the licensing of both vaccines, two new genotypes, G9 and G12, emerged in the human populat...
Mark Zeller, Mustafizur Rahman, Elisabeth Heylen, Sarah De Coster et al.
Rotarix™ was introduced into the Belgian market in 2006 and RotaTeq™ in 2007, quickly reaching more than 85% vaccine coverage of all newborns in Belgium. The incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis has been monitored in the Gasthuisberg University Hospital (GUH), Belgium since 1986, and since 1999 th...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Christiaan A. Potgieter, Max Ciarlet, Viviana Parreño et al.
A limited number of human G6P[14] rotavirus strains that cause gastroenteritis in humans have been isolated in Europe and Australia. The complete genome sequences were determined for five of these human strains--B10925-97 (isolated in Belgium in 1997), 111/05-27 (Italy, 2005), PA169 (Italy, 1987), M...
Jelle Matthijnssens, Mustafizur Rahman, Max Ciarlet, Mark Zeller et al.
G11 rotaviruses are believed to be of porcine origin. However, a limited number of G11 rotaviruses have been recently isolated from humans in combination with P[25], P[8], P[6], and P[4]. To investigate the evolutionary relationships of these strains, we analyzed the complete genomes of 2 human G11P...
Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Giovanni Veronesi, Simona Costanzo, Tanja Zeller et al.
Background and Purpose- NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and a marker of cardiac function used in the detection of heart failure. Given the link between cardiac dysfunction and stroke, NT-proBNP is a candidate marker of stroke risk. Our a...
Elisabeth Heylen, Mark Zeller, Max Ciarlet, Jody Lawrence et al.
BACKGROUND: P[6] rotaviruses have been circulating with a high prevalence in African and, to a more limited extent, Asian countries, but they have not been highly prevalent in other parts of the world. METHODS: To investigate the genomic relationship between African and Asian human P[6] rotaviruses ...
Delbert L. Rounds
Introduction. 1.Rosalva Resendiz and David M. Neal, International Auto Theft: The Illegal 'Export' of American Vehicles to Mexico. 2.Joseph L. Albini, R.E. Rogers, and Julie Anderson, Russian Organized Crime and Weapons of Terror: The Reality of Nuclear Proliferation. 3.Henry N. Pontell and Alexande...
Vania Andreoli, Jessica Zamborain‐Mason, Christopher D. Golden, Jessica A. Gephart et al.
Abstract Seafood is a vital source of micronutrients in the Indian Ocean region, a place where nutritional security is highly variable among individual countries. Here, there is an urgent need to address nutritional security and promote equitable distribution of marine resources, but little is known...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs am...
Holger Schulz, G Eder, Ines Bolle, Akira Tsuda et al.
Little is known about the effects of postnatal developmental changes in lung architecture and breathing patterns on intrapulmonary particle deposition. We measured deposition in the developing Wistar-Kyoto rat, whose lung development largely parallels that of humans. Deposition of 2-μm sebacate part...