OPTIMIZING THE CASCADE OF PREVENTION TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM TUBERCULOSIS: A POTENTIAL GAME CHANGER FOR REDUCING GLOBAL TUBERCULOSIS INCIDENCE.

Optimizing the cascade of prevention to protect people from tuberculosis: A potential game changer for reducing global tuberculosis incidence.

The provision of tuberculosis preventive treatment is one of the critical interventions to reduce tuberculosis incidence and ultimately eliminate the disease, yet we still miss appropriate tools for an impactful intervention and treatment coverage remains low.We used recent data, epidemiological estimates, and research findings to analyze the chall

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Balanced Learning Design Planning: Concept and Tool

We present a comprehensive learning design (LD) concept and tool, motivated by the needs identified by higher education (HE) practitioners.The concept and tool aim at implementing contemporary research findings and theory to support balanced LD planning (BDP).The student-centered BDP concept and tool provide innovation to LD planning by strongly fo

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Scope of free legal aid clinics at psychiatric hospitals in India

Background: Individuals suffering from mental illness and their families are vulnerable to face legal issues and the very nature of their illness may limit accessibility and effective utilisation of legal services.A few hospitals in India have free Legal Aid Clinics (LAC) but there is dearth of literature on the scope of LAC.Aims and objective: Obj

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Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae from recent outbreaks of kiwifruit bacterial canker belong to different clones that originated in China.

A recently emerged plant disease, bacterial canker of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa and A.chinensis), is caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv.actinidiae (PSA).The disease was first reported in China and Japan in the 1980s.A severe outbreak of PSA began in Italy in 2008 and has spread to other European countries.PSA was found in both New Zealand and C

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