Inter-colony disease transfer poses a serious hurdle to successfully managing healthy honeybee IRONSMART colonies.In this study, we build a multi-scale model of two interacting honey bee colonies.The model considers the effects of forager and drone drift, guarding behaviour, and resource robbing of dying colonies on the spread of disease between co
The Condiments emergence of Internet has greatly revolutionized the way that geospatial information is collected, managed, processed and integrated.There are several important research issues to be addressed for distributed geospatial applications.First, the performance of geospatial applications is needed to be considered in the Internet environme
OBJECTIVE: To report methods and results from a national sample mortality surveillance programme implemented in Viet Nam in 2009.METHODS: A national sample of 192 communes located in 16 provinces and covering a population of approximately 2.6 million was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling.Deaths for 2009 were identified from several local
Aim: Policymaking in Vietnam has traditionally been the preserve of the political elite, not open to the scrutiny of those outside the Communist Party.This paper aims to analyse Vietnam's HIV policy development in order to describe and understand the policy content, policy-making processes, actors and obstacles to policy implementation.Metho