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An FPGA-based cortical and thalamic silicon neuronal network
Takuya Nanami, Takashi Kohno
Pages: 238 - 242
A DSSN model is a neuron model which is designed to be implemented efficiently by digital arithmetic circuit. In our previous study, we expanded this model to support the neuronal activities of several cortical and thalamic neurons; Regular spiking, fast spiking, intrinsically bursting and low-threshold...
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Flood Disaster Risk Assessment and Spatial Distribution Characteristics along the Yangtze River in Anhui Province
Xianfu Cheng, Honghu Sun, Zhang Yuan, Guanglai Xu
Pages: 238 - 242
Using analytic hierarchy process and entropy method to determine the weight of index, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of risk assessment was constructed in this paper. Flood risk index and risk rating of area along the Yangtze River in Anhui province were drawn by using GIS spatial analysis technology....
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An Integrable Coupled Toda Equation And Its Related Equation Via Hirota's Bilinear Approach
Jun-Xiao Zhao, Chun-Xia Li, Xing-Biao Hu
Pages: 238 - 245
A coupled Toda equation and its related equation are derived from 3-coupled bilinear equations. The corresponding Bäcklund transformation and nonlinear superposition formula are presented for the 3-coupled bilinear equations. As an application of the results, solition solutions are derived. Besides,...
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Resolving of discrete transformation chains and multisoliton solution of the 3-wave problem
A.N. Leznov, G.R. Toker, R. Torres-Cordoba
Pages: 238 - 249
The chain of discrete transformation equations is resolved in explicit form. The new found form of solution alow to solve the problem of interrupting of the chain in the most strigtforward way. More other this form of solution give a guess to its generalization on the case of arbitrary semisimple algebra...
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Assessment of metabolic syndrome in Kashmiri population with type 2 diabetes employing the standard criteria’s given by WHO, NCEPATP III and IDF
Shafat Lone, Kouser Lone, Saika Khan, Rafiq Ahmed Pampori
Pages: 235 - 239
Background: Around 20–25 percent of the world’s adult populations have the metabolic syndrome and they are twice as likely to die from heart attack or stroke compared with people without the syndrome. The World Health Organization proposed a definition for the metabolic syndrome in 1998 and later on...
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Lung cancer correlates in Lebanese adults: A pilot case–control study
Joseph Aoun, Nadine Saleh, Mirna Waked, Joseph Salamé, Pascale Salameh
Pages: 235 - 244
Background: Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancers. However, there are no epidemiological studies concerning lung cancer and its risk factors in Lebanon. This study was carried out to determine the association between lung cancer and its most common risk factors in a sample of the...
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Data-based Analysis Methods for the State Controllability and State Observability of Discrete-time LTI Systems with Time-delays
Zhuo Wang, Ruigang Wang
Pages: 235 - 239
We present a couple of data-based methods to analyze the state controllability and state observability of discrete-time Linear time-Invariant (LTI) systems with time-delays, which have unknown parameter matrices. They first augment the system into a high dimensional LTI model, then apply the measured...
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Lepage Equivalents of Second-Order Euler–Lagrange Forms and the Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations
Olga Krupková, Dana Smetanová
Pages: 235 - 250
In the calculus of variations, Lepage (n + 1)-forms are closed differential forms, representing Euler–Lagrange equations. They are fundamental for investigation of variational equations by means of exterior differential systems methods, with important applications in Hamilton and Hamilton–Jacobi theory...
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A generalized asymmetry model for square contingency tables with ordered categories
Kiyotaka Iki, Takahiro Suto, Sadao Tomizawa
Pages: 237 - 247
For square contingency tables with ordered categories, the present paper proposes an asymmetry model with m-additional parameters, which indicates (1) the generalized marginal homogeneity and (2) the structure of quasi-symmetry for cumulative probabilities. The proposed model includes a modified palindromic...
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Enhancing Participation in Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records
George Coles, William Smart, Bruce Armstrong
Pages: 237 - 250
The introduction of a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system is central to Australia's key e-Health initiatives. This comes at a time when recent research efforts world-wide, report consumer concern about the security and privacy of information accessible via the Internet. Research...
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Model Introduced SPRT for Structural Change Detection of Time Series (II)
Yoshihide Koyama, Tetsuo Hattori, Katsunori Takeda, Hiromichi Kawano
Pages: 237 - 243
In this paper, using the notion of a binary Channel Matrix as well known in Information Theory, we present an equivalent relation between the SPRT (Sequential Probability Ratio Test) and Bayes’ Updating. Moreover, we show the relationship between the SPRT and NSPR (New Sequential Probability Ratio) where...
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Situation Assessment in Disaster Management
Juan Carlos Augusto, Hui Wang, Jun Liu
Pages: 237 - 247
We present a framework for decision-making in relation to disaster management with a focus on situation assessment during disaster management monitoring. The use of causality reasoning based on the temporal evolution of a scenario provides a natural way to chain meaningful events and possible states...
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Changing Solitons in Classical & Quantum Integrable Defect and Variable Mass Sine-Gordon Model
Anjan Kundu
Pages: 237 - 250
Sine-Gordon (SG) models with position dependent mass or with isolated defects appear in many physical situations, ranging from fluxon or semi-fluxon in nonuniform Josephson junction to spin-waves in quantum spin chain with variable coupling or DNA solitons in the active promoter region. However such...
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Soft Computing: A Continuously Evolving Concept
Piero P. Bonissone
Pages: 237 - 248
Soft Computing (SC) is a concept with constantly evolving semantics, as researchers have adopted its main philosophy while adding various interpretations and facets to this concept. Originally defined as a loose association or partnership of components, SC has gone through several transformational phases....
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Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations with First Integrals of the Form C(t) + 1/(A(t, x)ẋ + B(t, x))
C. Muriel, J. L. Romero
Pages: 237 - 250
We study the class of the ordinary differential equations of the form ẍ + a2(t, x)ẋ2 + a1(t, x)ẋ + a0(t, x) = 0, that admit v = ∂x as λ-symmetry for some λ = α(t, x)ẋ + β(t, x). This class coincides with the class of the second-order equations that have first integrals of the form C(t) + 1/(A(t, x)ẋ...
Journal: Artery Research
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Carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity in obese children and adolescents: The potential bias of tape distance measuring
Kristian Nebelin Hvidt, Michael Hecht Olsen, Jens-Christian Holm, Hans Ibsen
Pages: 234 - 237
Background: The recommendation for carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is to use a calliper to measure the aortic length as a straight line. In adults, it has been shown that tape follows the body contours potentially making the distance longer – ultimately a higher cfPWV – interpreted as a higher...
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Using Market Sentiment Analysis and Genetic Algorithm-Based Least Squares Support Vector Regression to Predict Gold Prices
Fong-Ching Yuan, Chao-Hui Lee, Chaochang Chiu
Pages: 234 - 246
Gold price prediction has long been a crucial and challenging research topic for gold investors. In conventional models, most scholars have used the historical gold price or economic indicators to forecast gold prices. The gold prices depend mainly on confidence in the current market. To reduce the time...
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Darboux integrability of generalized Yang–Mills Hamiltonian system
Jaume Llibre, Claudia Valls
Pages: 234 - 242
We show that the generalized Yang–Mills system with Hamiltonian
H=(p12+p22)/2+V(q1,q2)
where
V=1/2(aq12+bq22)+(cq14+2eq12q22+dq24)/4
is not completely integrable with Darboux first integrals.
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Observer-based fault reconstruction for linear systems using adaptive sliding mode method
Hao Li, Ying Yang, Yifan Wei, Fengzhi Dai
Pages: 236 - 239
This paper studies the fault reconstruction problem for the continuous linear time-invariant system. A new disturbance-decoupled fault reconstruction design is proposed by cooperating with the idea of the adaptive sliding mode method. The new scheme does not impose restrictions on both the upper boundary...
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Quasiclassical Solutions of the Schrödinger Equations as a Consequense of the Nonlinear Problem
A.A. Borghardt, D.Ya. Karpenko, D.V. Kashkakha
Pages: 236 - 240
Quasiclassic method of solving of the Schrödinger equation with quadratic Hamiltonian is used to derive solutions of Klein-Fock equation for the particle in the constant magnetic field and the jumping magnetic field.
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Regular Partially Invariant Submodels of Gas Dynamics Equations
L.V. Ovsyannikov, A.P. Chupakhin
Pages: 236 - 246
The Program SUBMODELS [1] is aimed to exhaust all possibilities derived from the symmetry of differential equations for construction of submodels (i.e., systems of equations of the reduced dimension) which describe classes of exact solutions for initial equations. In the frame of this Program, our paper...
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A New Artificial Immune System Algorithm for Multiobjective Fuzzy Flow Shop Problems
Cengiz Kahraman, Orhan Engin, Mustafa Kerim Yilmaz
Pages: 236 - 247
In this paper a new artificial immune system (AIS) algorithm is proposed to solve multi objective fuzzy flow shop scheduling problems. A new mutation operator is also described for this AIS. Fuzzy sets are used to model processing times and due dates. The objectives are to minimize the average tardiness...
Retraction
RETRACTION: Design of an Optimized GMV Controller based on Data-Driven Approach
Liying Shi, Zhe Guan, Toru Yamamoto
Pages: 235 - 240
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Impact of Advocacy, Communication, Social Mobilization and Active Case Finding on TB Notification in Jharkhand, India
Hemant Deepak Shewade, Vivek Gupta, Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule, Sashikanta Nayak, Srinath Satyanarayana, Rakesh Dayal, Subrat Mohanty, Sukhwinder Singh, Moumita Biswas, Kiran Kumar Reddy, Gayadhar Mallick, Om Prakash Bera, Prabhat Pandey, Sripriya Pandurangan, Raghuram Rao, Banuru Muralidhara Prasad, Ajay Madhugiri Venkatachalaiah Kumar, Sarabjit Singh Chadha
Pages: 233 - 242
Community-level benefits of screening for active tuberculosis (TB) disease remain uncertain. Project Axshya (meaning free of TB) conducted advocacy, communication, social mobilization, and active case finding among vulnerable/marginalized populations of India. Among 15 districts of Jharkhand state, the...
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A Case Series of Severe Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Treated with Tocilizumab and Glucocorticoids: A Report from Saudi Arabian Hospital
Salma AlBahrani, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Abdulaziz R. Alshaer, Amal Shilash, Khalid Alswefy, Razan Salamah Al-Zayer, Amr Mohamed Abouelela
Pages: 233 - 237
Background: The clinical spectrum of COVID-19 is variable and ranges from asymptomatic, mildly symptomatic, moderately severe and severe disease. A small proportion might develop severe disease and may have cytokine storm. One of the therapeutic options to treat such cases is Tocilizumab (TCZ). In this...
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Inverse Scattering Transform for the Discrete Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Nonvanishing Boundary Conditions
Cornelis van der Mee
Pages: 233 - 264
In this article we develop the direct and inverse scattering theory of the Ablowitz-Ladik system with potentials having limits of equal positive modulus at infinity. In particular, we introduce fundamental eigensolutions, Jost solutions, and scattering coefficients, and study their properties.We also...
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Analysis of Covariance of Reinforced Balanced Incomplete Block Designs With a Single Explanatory Variable
D.K. Ghosh, M.G. Bhatt, S.C. Bagui
Pages: 235 - 246
Reinforced balanced incomplete block designs (BIBDs) are very useful in statistical planning of experiments as they can be constructed for any number of treatments for given numbers of replications. Das (1958) was first to introduce the statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA) of these designs, and in...
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The Solution of Chain of Quantum Kinetic Equations of Bogoliubov for Bose Systems, Interacting by Delta Potential
M. Yu. Rasulova
Pages: 235 - 239
The BBGKY's chain of quantum kinetic equations that describes the system of Bose particles interacting by delta potential is solved by the operator method with the help of nonlinear Schrödinger's equations. The solution of the chain is defined in terms of the Bethe ansatz.
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Design and Evaluation of the De-obfuscation Method against the Identifier Renaming Methods
Yosuke Isobe, Haruaki Tamada
Pages: 232 - 238
The Identifier Renaming Method (IRM) is a well-used obfuscation method since almost obfuscation tools use the algorithm, and easy to implement. The IRM transforms the identifier names in the programs to meaningless names in order to hard to understand. However, the evaluations against attacks such as...
Research Article
Motion-Data Driven Grasp/Assembly Planner
Kensuke Harada, Natsuki Yamanobe, Weiwei Wan, Kazuyuki Nagata, Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar, Tokuo Tsuji
Pages: 232 - 235
This paper proposes a robotic grasp/assembly planner using a database of complex and skillful motion. In our proposed planner, if a skillful motion is included in the solution path, motion data included in the database is used. In this paper, we first explain the three-layered structure of the motion...
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Hybrid Approach of Ontology and Image Clustering for Automatic Generation of Hierarchic Image Database
Ryosuke Yamanishi, Ryoya Fujimoto, Yuji Iwahori, Robert J. Woodham
Pages: 234 - 242
This paper proposes a hybrid approach of ontology and image clustering to automatically generate hierarchic image database. In the field of computer vision, ”generic object recognition” is one of the most important topics. Generic object recognition needs three types of research: feature extraction,...
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Fast collective photographic subject detection without pixels by an assumption about a shoot and its elevation angle
Sora Tanioka, Masao Kubo, Hiroshi Sato
Pages: 234 - 237
In this paper a method that discovers socially attracted photographic subjects in real time is proposed. This needs only non-pixel information of a digital photograph for this discovery which include a time of shoot, GPS location where a photograph is taken, a bearing of the shoot and so on. Thinformation...
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Experiments of Floatable UAV for Wave Dissipating Block Inspection
Keisuke Watanabe, Koshi Utsunomiya, Kazuho Mitsumura, Shun Takasaki
Pages: 234 - 238
In this paper, we present our modification experience of making a UAV watertight and floatable. Then we present several experiments on taking pictures considering ocean monitoring in the sea near our campus. The watertight experiments are done from our school’s pier. In these experiments, we repeated...
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Regional Risk Assessment of Earthquake-triggered Landslides
Yingying Tian, Chong Xu, Jian Chen
Pages: 234 - 245
Great earthquakes occurring in mountainous areas can trigger large-scale landslides, leading to serious geological disasters. Thus, in recent years, especially after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, much attention has been focused on the research about regional risk assessment of seismic landslides in China...
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Crowd Behavior Recognition Using Hybrid Tracking Model and Genetic algorithm Enabled Neural Network
Manoj Kumar, Charul Bhatnagar
Pages: 234 - 246
In the current era, crowd behavior analysis is important topic due to the significance of video surveillance in the public area. Literature presents a handful of works for crowd behavior detection and analysis. Even though, the complicated challenges such as, low quality video, wide variation in the...
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Using Pattern Position Distribution for Software Failure Detection
Chunping Li, Ziniu Chen, Hao Du, Hui Wang, George Wilkie, JuanC. Augusto, Jun Liu
Pages: 234 - 243
We present a novel approach for using the pattern position distribution as features to detect software failure. In this approach, we divide an execution sequence into several sections and compute the pattern distribution in each section. The distribution of all patterns is then used as features to train...
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Linearization of Mirror Systems
Tat Leung Yee
Pages: 234 - 242
We demonstrate, through the fourth Painlevé and the modified KdV equations, that the attempt at linearizing the mirror systems (more precisely, the equation satisfied by the new variable introduced in the indicial normalization) near movable poles can naturally lead to the Schlesinger transformations...
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Similarity Reductions for a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation
M.L. Gandarias, P. Venero, J. Ramirez
Pages: 234 - 244
Similarity reductions and new exact solutions are obtained for a nonlinear diffusion equation. These are obtained by using the classical symmetry group and reducing the partial differential equation to various ordinary differential equations. For the equations so obtained, first integrals are deduced...
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Epidemiology of Meningitis in Oman—Implications for Future Surveillance
Padmamohan J. Kurup, Seif Al-Abri, Salim Al-Mahrooqi, Amina Al-Jardani, Shyam Bawikar, Bader Al-Rawahi, Idris Al-Abaidani
Pages: 231 - 235
Objectives: This study aimed to understand the epidemiology of meningitis cases admitted to hospitals in Oman and to identify any changing microbial patterns from the introduction of the new vaccines. Methods: A retrospective analysis of all cases of meningitis reported through a national surveillance...
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A prospective, observational, epidemiological evaluation of the aetiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of acute otitis media in Saudi children younger than 5 years of age
Khalid A. Al-Mazrou, Atef M. Shibl, Walid Kandeil, Jean-Yves Pirçon, Cinzia Marano
Pages: 231 - 238
Background: Information regarding acute otitis media (AOM) aetiology is important for developing effective vaccines. Here, bacterial aetiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of AOM were determined in young Saudi children.
Methods: Children aged 3–60 months with a new episode of AOM, who had not received...
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Estimating the potential impact fraction of hypertension as the main risk factor of stroke: Application of the distribution shift method
Azam Biderafsh, Manoochehr Karami, Javad Faradmal, Jalal Poorolajal
Pages: 231 - 237
Few published studies have assessed the impact of quantitative risk factors such as high blood pressure on stroke. The aim of this study was to quantify the potential impact fraction (PIF) of hypertension on stroke in Hamadan Province, western Iran. Avoidable burden of stroke associated with high blood...
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Autoencoder with Spiking in Frequency Domain for Anomaly Detection of Uncertainty Event
Umaporn Yokkampon, Sakmongkon Chumkamon, Abbe Mowshowitz, Eiji Hayashi
Pages: 231 - 234
This paper proposes the autoencoder method with spiking raw data to the frequency domain to analyze and predict the anomaly case among the standard data set and compare it with original data. The dataset is the real-world data from factory automation. The combination of frequency domain and original...
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Human Motion Recognition Using TMRIs with Extended HOOF
Jing Cao, Youtaro Yamashita, Joo Kooi Tan
Pages: 231 - 235
In recent years, research on computer vision has shown great advancement and has been applied to a wide range of fields. Among them, automatic recognition of human motion is an important technology especially in crime prevention and elderly watching systems. Considering this trend, the paper proposes...
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Improvement and Evaluation of Estimation of Time Series Data of Daily Life
Teruhisa Hochin, Hiroki Nomiya
Pages: 233 - 242
This paper improves the estimation of the amounts of sewage flow, which is one of daily life data, in order to manage them efficiently. The amounts of flow of a typical day are tried to be adjusted to those of a non-regular day. A typical (non-regular, respectively) day is a non-rainy day having good...
Research Article
Bill Business Risk and Prevention of Small and Medium Commercial Bank
Yanling Hu
Pages: 233 - 237
With the increasingly fierce competition in China's banking industry, the traditional deposit and loan business has been difficult to meet the needs of the development of banking business itself. Bill business as a new intermediary business has been a new point of profit growth for small and medium commercial...
Research Article
Self-Invariant Contact Symmetries
Peter E. Hydon
Pages: 233 - 242
Every smooth second-order scalar ordinary differential equation (ODE) that is solved for the highest derivative has an infinite-dimensional Lie group of contact symmetries. However, symmetries other than point symmetries are generally difficult to find and use. This paper deals with a class of one-parameter...
Research Article
A New Risk Management Model
Dean Kashiwagi, Jacob Kashiwagi
Pages: 233 - 251
The identification of the source of project risk has been a troubling issue in construction management. A new risk management model has been developed. Analysis of the risk in the IT industry, construction industry, and also industry structure and supply chain delivery has resulted in the identification...
Research Article
A note on Sum, Difference, Product and Ratio of Kumaraswamy Random Variables
Avishek Mallick, Indranil Ghosh, G. G. Hamedani
Pages: 230 - 241
Explicit expressions for the densities of S = X1 + X2 , D = X1 − X2 , P = X1X2 and R = X1/X2 are derived when X1 and X2 are independent or sub-independent Kumaraswamy random variables. The expressions appear to involve the incomplete gamma functions. Some possible real life scenarios are mentioned in...
Journal: Artery Research
Short Communication
Variation and variability in carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity
Radhakrishna R. Kallem, Kevin E.C. Meyers, Deirdre L. Sawinski, Raymond R. Townsend
Pages: 230 - 233
Background: There are very limited data on the day-to-day variability and virtually no data on within-subject measurement variation of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (c-fPWV). Therefore, we conducted this study in healthy volunteers to measure both day-to-day variability and day-to-day within-subject...
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Assessment of Local Health Worker Attitudes toward International Medical Volunteers in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Global Survey
Crystal Bae, Nehal Naik, Monika Misak, Sean L. Barnes, Avelino C. Verceles, Alfred Papali, Michael T. McCurdy, Lia I. Losonczy
Pages: 230 - 235
Background: International Medical Volunteers (IMVs) positively and negatively impact host countries, and the goals of their trips may not always align with the interests of the hosts in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). We sought to better understand local physicians’ interest of hosting IMVs...