...MERS Nioka Sizemore HCS/245 Sept 8 2014 Windy Tanner MERS MERS is the Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus, in 2012 the first cases of MERS was confirmed. MERS is a virus that attacks the respiratory systems. There has not been another virus that can be compared to MERS because of the ways you can be infected and how it attacks the person infected. Symptoms of MERS include flu like symptoms such as fever, cough. MERS affects your breathing causing a feeling of shortness of breath. The public health risk right now is very high and the CDC is collaborating with the World Health Organization to find out what the risk factors are in detail. Certain groups of people are more likely to contract the MERS virus. Children are a large source for spreading MERS because it can be spread just like a cold or the flu. People who are at a higher risk for this virus are those who are already dealing with health issues that may have weakened their immune system. Asthmatics are highly likely to become seriously ill by the MERS virus because it attacks the respiratory system and asthmatics already have a weakened immune system. As of now 2014 the World Health Organization has updated the amount of people affected by the MERS virus. According to the World Health Organization as well as the CDC there is approximately 228 active cases as well as 92 deaths that have been caused by the MERS outbreak. These cases are all within Countries considered to be part of the Arabian Peninsula and...
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...from an animal source, such as the Black Plague from rats and AIDS from monkeys. These viruses constitute a threat to the human health. Veterinarians can help in the effort to contain and prevent the spread of these viruses to the human population. An instance of such a virus is the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which recently emerged in the US. The first confirmed case of MERS was reported in Indiana, where the patient was an American health care provider, working in Saudi Arabia. The second case was reported in Florida. The patient was also a health care provider who treated MERS patients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Eventually, the virus was further spread when two more health care workers, who were recently in contact with the Florida MERS patient, were admitted to the hospital with flu-like symptoms....
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...1. There are several factors that can have an impact on the relationship between employees and employers; these are identified as internal and external factors. Internal factors; • Pay and rewards attract and retain employees. Having the right pay and benefit for employees motivate them. This helps employees feel valued and can remove animosity between employee and employer. Training and development has a positive impact on employees, this shows investment from the employer and enhances career progression. • Organisation culture has a large impact on the relationship, if an organisation has a certain culture that is generally expected from employees. For example, employees are expected to work more than their contracted hours however should the employee require time off for dental or doctor appointment, the flexibility is there from the employer to enable employees to attend such appointment without any salary deduction. External factors; • Technology can have huge impact on employment relationship. New and improved technology within a production organisation, for example, may lead to redundancies as the manual work from employees may no longer be required. This will have an impact on those employees who still remain employed, they could feel demotivated and be left wondering if they would be next to be made redundant. • Pay and rewards are also an external factor as well as internal. Employees could be offered a better salary for a similar role therefore demands a higher...
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...NcPred for accurate nuclear protein prediction using n-mer statistics with various classification algorithms Md. Saiful Islam, Alaol Kabir, Kazi Sakib, and Md. Alamgir Hossain Abstract Prediction of nuclear proteins is one of the major challenges in genome annotation. A method, NcPred is described, for predicting nuclear proteins with higher accuracy exploiting n-mer statistics with different classification algorithms namely Alternating Decision (AD) Tree, Best First (BF) Tree, Random Tree and Adaptive (Ada) Boost. On BaCello dataset [1], NcPred improves about 20% accuracy with Random Tree and about 10% sensitivity with Ada Boost for Animal proteins compared to existing techniques. It also increases the accuracy of Fungal protein prediction by 20% and recall by 4% with AD Tree. In case of Human protein, the accuracy is improved by about 25% and sensitivity about 10% with BF Tree. Performance analysis of NcPred clearly demonstrates its suitability over the contemporary in-silico nuclear protein classification research. 1 Introduction Nucleus, popularly known as the control center of a cell, is the central unit of eukaryotic cells [2]. Unlike other organelles, its function is regulated by two genomes due to the presence of an explicit nuclear genome. It performs a plethora of biochemical reactions like oxidative phosphorylation, Krebs cycle, DNA replication, transcription, translation, etc. In addition nuclei are also involved in apoptosis and ionic homeostasis [3]. Because...
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...C228 – Community Health Nursing – Task 2 Renee Todd Western Governors University Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a severe acute respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus named MERS-CoV. It is believed that the virus is found in camels and passed on to humans who are in contact or around infected animal. These camels are mainly located in Egypt, Oman, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia (WHO, 2015a). Those infected with MERS exhibit fever, cough, and shortness of breath, pneumonia, and diarrhea. Severe cases require patient to be put on mechanical ventilation or in an intensive care unit. It is also known to cause kidney failure and septic shock. The elderly, persons who are immunosuppressed, those who have diabetes, cancer, or chronic lung disease are at an increased risk of contracting MERS. It can be transmitted to anyone who is in close contact with the infected person (WHO, 2015a). MERS has been reported in 26 countries throughout the world. In May of 2015, there was an outbreak in Korea that began with a 68 year old male who had recent travel from the Arabian Peninsula. The time line is as follows (WHO, 2015b) 1st Case: Reported May 24, 2015. (WHO, 2015b) • Patient: 68 year old male • Travel history o April 18-29, 2015: Bahrain o April 29-30, 2015: United Arab Emirates o April 30- May 1, 2015: Bahrain o May 1-2, 2015: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia o May 2, 2015: Bahrain o May 2-3, 2015: Qatar o May 4, 2015: Flew from Qatar...
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...Communicable Disease: MERS Outbreak In September of 2012, beginning in the country of Saudi Arabia, hospitals began seeing increased cases of a respiratory virus never before seen in humans. They named it Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. MERS is a viral respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. It was originally thought to have started there in Saudi Arabia. It was not until later that they were able to trace the origin back to Jordan starting in April of 2012. All outbreaks of MERS have been traced back to originating from the Arabian Peninsula (CDC, 2015a). Unfortunately, it is not known exactly how MERS was contracted in humans, but it is believed to have come from an animal source, probably from camels. Strains of MERS have been identified in camels in Middle East (WHO, 2015). MERS can infect anyone, at any age and it has been found that approximately 3 to 4 out of every 10 people die when contracting this disease (CDC, 2015a). MERS has been confirmed in ten different countries in or around the Arabian Peninsula and in seventeen different countries outside of the peninsula. The countries affected outside of the peninsula are believed to have had cases due to travelers coming from the peninsula (CDC, 2015b). MERS Timeline MERS was first seen in Zarqa, Jordan in April of 2012 in an outbreak at a hospital. It was not recognized at that time as being MERS. They found at least ten people were infected and two of those people died. In June of 2012, a man in Jidda...
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...C228 Community Nursing Task 2 Jane A. Wildeman Western Governors University C228 Community Nursing Task 2 Introduction Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, is still a relatively new virus first diagnosed in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Thorough investigation by international health officials traced the disease to the first-known human case in Jordan in April 2012, and it is believed this first case was transported from camels, possibly by drinking raw camel’s milk. ("About MERS," 2015) Much is still not known about the virus, but it is suspected to be spread by either direct contact or droplet form in human-to-human transport. It is believed the virus originated over forty years ago in bats and was passed to camels, and experts are still unsure how the virus passed from camels to humans. Yet, the virus in humans is identical to the virus in camels, causing concern that it doesn’t require mutation to be transmitted. As a result, WHO recommends pasteurization of camel milk and adequate cooking of camel meat before consumption. It is also recommended that anyone in contact with farm animals or camels in the effected countries use preventive hygiene measures, including good handwashing before and after exposure to animals. ("MERS-CoV," June 2015) Over 1600 cases of MERS-CoV have been reported to the WHO, with almost 600 deaths since September 2012. All cases that have occurred outside the Arabian Peninsula can be directly traced either to recent...
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...Coronavirus Communicable Disease Outbreak Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus is also known as MERS CoV which stands for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory illness that is caused by a novel coronavirus (CoV). MERS CoV was first identified in Saudi Arabia. In 2012, the Jordan Ministry of Health began investigating an outbreak of a lower respiratory illness in a Jordanian hospital. In this initial outbreak, there were nine (9) confirmed cases with two (2) fatalities. Globally, since September 2012, the World Health Organization has been notified of 1,365 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including at least 487 related deaths. (“WHO,” 2015). Since the first case identified in 2012, there have been new cases yearly in Oman, Republic of Korea (2015), United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Saudi Arabia (2012), the Philippines (2014), United Kingdom (2015), Kenya (2016), Kuwait, Qatar, China, Iran, Germany(2014), Turkey and Austria (2014) and two isolated cases in the United States (2014). (“MERS CoV Outbreak,” n.d.). MERS CoV Route of Transmission Based on several studies, the MERS CoV has been traced to Dromedary Camels. One study revealed extremely high titer levels of neutralizing antibodies to MERS CoV in the blood serum of the camels. Further studies show MERS CoV isolated from nasal swabs from camels. It is unclear exactly how the virus is transmitted...
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...Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Kelly Belcher 307442 Western Governors University ("INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA & INGENIERIA DE ECOSISTEMAS: RUSSIAN REPORT WARNS OF GRAVE MONSANTO THREAT TO WORLD," n.d.) I chose to do this assignment about the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). It is caused by the coronavirus MERS-CoV. I have never heard of this condition, and arbitrarily picked it because my best friend’s last name is Corona. I was interested to learn that, ironically, the only known case in the US was in Indiana, where I live. “Coronaviruses are common viruses that most people get some time in their life. Human coronaviruses usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses” ("CDC - Coronavirus - About," n.d.), but >30% of people who have MERS will die from it ("CDC - Coronavirus - Middle East Respiratory Syndrome - MERS-CoV," n.d.). MERS was originally diagnosed in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It is a virus that attacks the respiratory tract. Typically the people who test positive for the virus show the same symptoms. They have a fever, cough, and shortness of breath and may also have pneumonia, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. To discuss the epidemiological determinants of this disease I first needed to establish a working definition. “A determinant is any factor or variable that can affect the frequency with which a disease occurs in a population” ("2. Epidemiology: some basic concepts and definitions," n.d.). MERS is a disease that...
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...be covering MERS the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome which is a respiratory virus, I will go more in depth about. Next, is Atrial Fibrillation (AFIB) this is an irregular heartbeat. Lastly I will discuss sleep apnea which deals with your breathing while sleeping. To begin with, I am going to talk about MERS. The middle east respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS) is a Beta corona virus. MERS is closes to resembling Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) but doesn't spread as easy. SARS affected around 8,000 people around the world in 2013. MERS was found in the Middle East in the year 2012. It had come back last year in May but it was identified in Asia. There were about 160 who caught this respiratory infection and the reported death toll was 25. If patients traveled to the areas where this was found the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is urging doctors to check for the virus. Without close contact it is hard to catch this virus says experts. Further more, the common symptoms found when patients have MERS are fever, cough, and shortness of breath (SOB). The doctors can treat symptoms, but the doctors do not have a vaccine because this virus does not currently have a cure. This is even more serious for those who already have problems with their immune system. If leaving in or visiting an area infected by MERS wash hands often, avoid the sick, help your children with washing their hands thoroughly, and wear a mask if dealing with people affected by MERS. My next...
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...LE THEME DE L'EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS L'OEUVRE DE MAUPASSANT '- LE THEME DE L'EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS L'QETNRE DE GUY DE MAUPASSANT by Michelle Cuoq L'oeuvre littéraire de chaque grand écrivain est, selon Bachelard, baignée par un des quatre éléments traditionnels: l'eau, l'air, la terre et le feu. Cela est tout-à-fait vrai en ce qui concerne Maupassant puisque l'eau baigne à la fois son oeuvre et sa vie. L'eau, sous toutes ses formes, a inspiré cet écrivain et a occupé dans sa courte vie une place primordiale. Sa vie d'enfant, d'adulte et d'écrivain célèbre s'est déroulée entre la Manche, la Méditerranée, la Seine et diverses stations thermales et l'oeuvre de Maupassant est un reflet de l'homme, de ses complexes, de ses névr9ses et de sa philosophie de la vie. Etudier l'eau dans la vie et dans l'oeuvre de Maupassant, c'est chercher, en quelque sorte, à tendre à ce célèbre écrivain le miroir de vérité pour essayer de pénétrer, au-delà du miroir, le moi profond d'un homme w.alheureux, trop souvent méconnu et, qui sait, pour participer peutêtre à sa réhabilitation. , •• 1 '. LE THE:ME DE LI EAU DANS LA VIE ET DANS LI OEUVRE DE GUY DE MAUPASSANT by Michelle Cuoq A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Ar~s Department of French Language and Literature McGill University Montreal ® March 1972 Michelle Guoq 1972 ..-' ...
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...nevne om bedriften eller ditt besøk? 10. Har du forslag til tilta 11. Hvor stor sannsynlig 12. Hva er dine assosiasjoner til TusenFryd? 13. Hvem mener du denne Fornøyelsesparken 14. Hvis du 15. 08.11.2015 kl. 16.36.19 18-25 Student Kvinne Nei Liker ikke Fornøyelsesparker Mer enn 5 år siden 08.11.2015 kl. 16.39.21 18-25 Student Mann Ja I 2015 Tidligere erfaringer 4 Stor kødannelse kan være et problem på de mest attraktive attraksjonene. Vanskeligheter med å komme seg vekk fra køen hvis man befinner seg midt inne i den og angrer / vil ut. Lage "utganger" som ku 8 Glede, adrenalin, sukkerspinn, badeland Familier, ungdom mellom 14-20 år 4 4 Sykt store sukkerspinn ;-) 08.11.2015 kl. 16.39.43 18-25 Student Mann Ja 3-5 år siden Tidligere erfaringer 3 utvide hele shitten 9 morsomt, spennende barn og familier 3 3 08.11.2015 kl. 16.42.38 18-25 Student Kvinne Ja 3-5 år siden Tidligere erfaringer 4 Dyrt, dårlig dyr mat. Bedre matserveringen til 7 gøy for hele familien. unge mellom 12 og 18 med penger til inngang. 2 2 08.11.2015 kl. 16.43.57 18-25 Student Kvinne Ja Mer enn 5 år siden Anbefalinger av venner/familie 4 6 Morsomt, action Store barn, ungdom 4 3 08.11.2015 kl. 16.44.59 18-25 Jobb fulltid Mann Ja 1-2 år siden Anbefalinger av venner/familie 5 Bedre skrekkhus Ikke klaget. 10 08.11.2015 kl. 16.48.19...
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...Beskrivning av nuvarande system och företag Crown Point Cabinetry grundades 1979 av Norm Stowell när han började göra skåp i sitt garage. Crown Point var ett familjeägt företag där alla av hans sju barn jobbar inom företag. Brian Stowell, kom överens med sin far Aos om ett avtal och blev ny verkställande chef 1993. När Brain Stowell tog över var det faktorer som inte fungerade som de skall Crown Point. Frånvaron på de anställda och var ett stort problem. Anställd / ledning relationerna beskrevs som, världelös., AU Management, var en lösning att hantera situationen, men ha en mellanhand mellan ledning och de anställda gjorde inte saken bättre. Det största problemet vid denna tid var dålig in-process kvalitetskontroll. Vissa skåp byggdes tre eller fyra gånger innan de kom ut ur butiken. Brian bestämde sig för att byta system och testa nytt. Brian kallade till ett möte och meddelade att han skulle göra ändringar. Brian ville att folk skulle säga att de älskade att arbeta på Crown Point (vilket inte var en önskvärd plats att arbeta på vid den tidpunkten). Han uppmuntrade sina skeptiska arbetare att lita på honom. Från 1994 till 2002, införde Brian Stowell och hans fru Becky, många ändringar Crown point skåp. Han minskade de anställda från 73 till 56 anställda. Detta ökade lönsamheten i företaget då många anställda inte gjorde sitt jobb. Ledningssystemet förnyades sedan. Ett nytt team infördes som jobbade med de anställda och (ledningen) dessa hade dagliga möten och diskussioner...
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...Bananträdet 1. Både alternativ A och B är demokratiska på sitt sätt men, personligen, tror jag att alternativ A är mer demokratisk än alternativ B. För att även om det står att ”det är förbjudet att framföra åsikter...” Så är det ändå, i mina ögon, mer demokratiskt för att i en demokrati ska alla vara lika värda, ingen ska få mer än andra. Men t.ex. i Sverige så finns det en skillnad mellan lönerna p.g.a. kön. Och det är så för att det sägs att ”kvinnor är inte lika starka som män och att vi inte klarar av lika mycket som män” Som sagt, demokrati handlar ju trots allt om att alla ska få sin röst hörd och att man kan tycka vad man vill. Vilket då tar mig till nästa punkt och det är för- och nackdelarna med just alternativ A: För- och nackdelar med A: * Fördelar: ”Att det är bestämt att trädet ägs gemensamt av alla på ön”. Om vi istället skulle byta ut orden ”trädet” och ”på ön” och ersätta det med ”samhället” och ” i landet” så kan man ge ett exempel på hur samhället ser ut, på sätt och vis. Om denna händelse hade inträffat i verkligheten så skulle man nog välja Alternativ A så att alla får lika mycket och att även personen som har lite mer makt än alla andra behandlas på samma sätt. * Nackdelar: ”Det är förbjudet att framföra åsikten att någon annan ska ha mer än en banan om dagen eller att någon annan ska plocka den åt en”. Att säga att det är förbjudet att framföra en åsikt är ju så klart helt odemokratiskt. Man måste tänka på att om detta skulle inträffa...
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...Coffee X Säljanalys I dagsläget arbetar vi med säljanalys med hjälp av två inhyrda analytiker. Analysen är ännu inte fullständig därav kan vi inte avgöra vilken information som är viktigast. Idag finns det rutiner för insamling av data i företaget, men i dagsläget ligger det på säljare och analytiker, tyvärr är det inte förankrat med resten av företaget. På grund av bristande analys kan vi bara förankra vissa delar av företaget. Våra säljare är idag nyckeln till företagets framgång och är väl införstådda med företagets visioner och mål. Våra säljare är beroende av rapporter och statistik via säljledningen, tyvärr har vi dåligt med information. Den information som finns att tillgå tas med på ledningsmöten samt styrmöten. Säljprocessen Vi har i dagsläget en fungerande säljprocess, men som är i behov av förbättring i form av struktur och information. Vi har välutbildade och kompetenta säljare. De är väl införstådda i säljprocessen och har förstått mervärdet av den. Dock är företagsledningen och säljstödspersonalen dåligt införstådda i rutiner och säljprocessen. Säljarna använder sig inte av alla delar i säljprocessen idag och rutiner är inte fastställda än. Dock är säljarna bekväma i sitt arbete och ser till att företagsledningen ser möjligheterna i säljprocesserna. Förbättringsarbete Säljledningen har identifierat många olika förbättringsområden, man har bland annat tillsatt arbetsgrupper för att analysera olika arbetsområden och man har etablerat en...
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