The development of the DOTS Expansion Plan has been a milestone in tuberculosis (TB) control at the global and national levels.Key challenges that remain are overcoming the weakness of a strategy built on Elastic Shaping Paste case management, sustaining commitment, competing priorities, the threat of HIV, maintaining high quality of care and Curio

Plants and herbivores have co-evolved in their natural habitats for about 350 million years, but since the domestication of crops, DISH plant resistance against insects has taken a different turn.With the onset of monoculture-driven modern agriculture, selective pressure on insects to overcome resistances has dramatically increased.Therefore plant

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Abstract Background Administrative databases offer vast amounts of data that provide opportunities for cost-effective insights.They simultaneously pose significant challenges to statistical analysis such as the redaction of data because of privacy policies and the provision of data that may not be at the level of detail required.For example, ages i