The elimination strategy set forth goals to eliminate local transmission from all areas but the Yunnan Myanmar border by 2015 and to be completely free of local malaria transmission by 2020. 4 The abovementioned two articles suggest that prospects for meeting the 2015 goal are good.
Quine's elimination strategy From the late 1930s, Quine worked on an alternative way to eliminate bound variables from first-order logic.
It has only pushed the ultimate failure of the measles elimination strategy a little closer to the present.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to flush the disease out of its remaining strongholds by 2020 using a fourfold elimination strategy dubbed "SAFE".
Small-world neural networks, as well as diluted Hopfield networks, are constructed by using matrix decomposition and a connection elimination strategy.
MoHP is now planning to remap in all other endemic governorates using Urine-CCA with the aim of identifying all areas of transmission where the elimination strategy should be applied.
In spite the global success recorded in the NNT elimination strategy, it is disheartening to note that Nigeria is still among the 25 remaining countries that are yet to achieve the global NNT elimination target as set by the WHO.
Based on the findings of the current S. mansoni mapping exercise, authorities of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) adopted a new elimination strategy by readjusting thresholds for mass treatment with praziquantel and targeting all transmission areas.
The group reached a consensus that in addition to the cornerstone of early diagnosis and prompt treatment with multidrug therapy for all leprosy patients, a successful elimination strategy also requires tracing and preventative therapy for contacts of new leprosy, improvements in diagnostic tools, and strict epidemiological surveillance and response systems to monitor progress.
If the distance between adjacent individuals is less than the threshold, some of the adjacent individuals are removed according to the elimination strategy.
Independent patient characteristics, in terms of age, sex, acuity level, chief complaint and injury, predicting self-referral were identified via multivariate logistic regression using a backward elimination strategy on all patient characteristics with p > 0.05 as elimination criterion.
