Figure 1 illustrates how the networks connect through overlapping country membership within regional networks and between regional secretariats.
We gridded baseline mortality rates, baseline YLL, and the fraction of the population ≥ 30 years of age to the MOZART-2 grid, and for grid cells overlapping multiple countries, we calculated area-weighted averages using a geographic information system program.
It is a European event, in France's case overlapping the country's treatment of foreign Roma, or Gypsies, who have overstayed the three-month welcome automatically accorded citizens of Bulgaria and Romania as members of the European Union.
One of the first steps Mr. Milton has taken to achieve that is to start eliminating some of the overlapping cross-country flights of the two airlines -- mainly those that link the big eastern cities of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, and the big western cities of Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.
Experts suspect bushmeat from Lofa, a forest area overlapping the three countries where outbreaks have been reported, to be a carrier of Ebola.
The utilities of the EQ-5D-3L health states were calculated using the European value set derived from an experiment respondents from the general population in six European countries [ 14], generally overlapping with the countries in our survey.
The UK's continuing diplomatic tensions with Argentina over the Falkland Islands, for example, are in no small part due to the countries' overlapping claims to Antarctic territory.
Despite the two countries' overlapping claims and the 1995 Mischief Reef incident, there have been no major controversies over their contending claims that have negatively affected their overall bilateral relations.
Overlapping situations across countries may include stagnating employment rates, decaying quality of employment, and an increasing share of workers leaving the labor force.
TB and helminth infections, which induce antagonizing immune response, are epidemiologically overlapping in developing countries; and thus helminth infection might be further complicating TB control and prevention programs by attenuating TH1 wings of the host immune system.
