FROM PRESS CONFERENCES TO MEDIA DIALOGUES, CAMEROON LEARNED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN RELAYING TOBACCO CONTROL MESSAGES

From press conferences to media dialogues, Cameroon learned to be more effective in relaying tobacco control messages

Background and challenges to implementation Cameroon ratified the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in 2006.Eleven years later, the country has still not adopted a national tobacco control bill, something the FCTC recommends 2006 scion xa catalytic converter be done three years into ratification.Knowing how po

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Plant volatile eliciting FACs in lepidopteran caterpillars, fruit flies and crickets: a convergent evolution or phylogenetic inheritance?

Fatty acid amino acid conjugates (FACs), first identified in lepidopteran caterpillar spit as elicitors of plant volatile emission, also have been reported as major components in gut tracts of Drosophila melanogaster and cricket Teleogryllus taiwanemma.The profile of FAC analogs in these two insects was similar to that of tobacco hornworm Manduca s

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Budget impact analysis of routinely using whole-genomic sequencing of six multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens in Queensland, Australia

Objective To predict the cost and health effects of routine use of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial pathogens compared with those of standard of care.Design Budget impact analysis was performed over the following 5 years.Data were primarily from sequencing results on clusters of multidrug-resistant organisms across 27 hospitals.Model inpu

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Evaluating skill requirement for logistics operation practitioners: based on the perceptions of logistics service providers and academics in Taiwan

This paper empirically evaluates the crucial dimensions of logistics skill requirements and their discrepancy for logistics operation first line employees from industrial and academic perspectives.Factor analysis was employed to identify crucial business and logistics skill factors in Taiwan.ANOVA was then conducted to analyse the difference percep

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