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Front -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO READING THE WORLD'S SCRIPTS -- 2. SCRIPTS AND WRITING SYSTEMS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 3. OPTIMAL ORTHOGRAPHIES -- 5. THE CREE SYLLABARY AND THE WRITING SYSTEM RIDDLE: A PARADIGM IN CRISIS -- 7. ORTHOGRAPHY AND READING IN KANNADA: A DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGE -- 10. SCRIPT FACTORS THAT AFFECT LITERACY: ALPHABETIC VS. LOGOGRAPHIC LANGUAGES -- 12. DIFFERENTIAL PROCESSING OF CONTENT WORDS AND FUNCTION WORDS: CHINESE CHARACTERS VS. PHONETIC SCRIPTS -- 14. ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN READING AND WRITING FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN -- 16. WRITING SYSTEMS AND ACQUISITION OF READING IN AMERICAN, CHINESE, AND JAPANESE FIRST-GRADERS -- 17. BRAHMI SCRIPTS, ORTHOGRAPHIC UNITS AND READING ACQUISITION -- 18. ORTHOGRAPHIC AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING IN LEARNING TO READ ENGLISH AND HEBREW -- 19. SCRIPT DIRECTIONALITY AFFECTS NONLINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM HINDI AND URDU -- AUTHOR INDEX

This book is written to give the reader a well-rounded understanding of honeypots in wired and wireless networks. It addresses honeypots from various perspectives. The book is exhaustive, systematic and user friendly. Case studies are given to enhance the practical understanding of the subject along with strong theoretical foundation. It includes the latest technology in Information Security, and Honeypots including honeytokens, honeynets and honeyfarms. It further discusses the role of honeypots in various attack scenarios like denial of service, virus, worms, phishing, etc. and elaborates on virtual honeypots and forensics. Practical implementations as well as current state of research has been discussed. The book is intended for anyone who as to administer, secure, hack, practice, understand or research on security technologies. It will serve both an academic and professional audience. Also meant for students doing a course in Honeypots in the disciplines Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Security, Information Science and Management.

The years of life lost and years lived with disability due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) increased globally by 90% and 49.5% respectively between 1990 and 2013. In additional to the traditional factors, infections, low birthweight, environmental factors and low socio-economic status contribute to CKD burden in low and middle income countries (LMIC). System level challenges such as poor appreciation of the burden, insufficient human resources, high healthcare cost, poor referral pathways, inaccurate health information systems and inadequate medicine supply pose barriers to CKD control. In this paper, we present evidence that CKD burden in LMIC are related to system-wide issues, which can be effectively reduced using innovative, affordable and scalable interventions. A multipronged approach, such as improving socio-economic determinants of health, enabling environment for healthy decision-making, and sustainable interventions. Innovative approaches at primary level include promoting healthy behaviours, counselling and education in primary care, task-sharing between physicians and non-physician health providers, using technology to train non-physicians to screen, diagnose, refer, follow-up and educate patients and ensuring quality. Stronger political will and system level change are needed to prevent and manage CKD if the sustainable development goals of reducing pre-mature mortality from NCDs by 2030 are to be attained.

Introduction Health systems across the world are facing challenges with shortages and maldistribution of skilled health professionals. Return-of-service (ROS) initiatives are government-funded strategies used to educate health professionals by contracting beneficiaries to undertake government work on a year-for-year basis after their qualification. It is envisaged that once they have served their contract, they will be attracted to serve in the same area or government establishment beyond the duration of their obligatory period. Little is known about the processes that led to the development and implementation of ROS policies. Furthermore, there is no systematic evaluation of the strategies that demonstrate their utility. This research aims to evaluate the ROS initiatives, explore their efficacy and sustainability in five Southern African countries. Methods and analysis This study will be conducted in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia in a phased approach through a multimethods approach of policy reviews, quantitative and qualitative research. First, a review will be conducted to explore current ROS schemes. Second, a quantitative retrospective cohort study of ROS scheme recipients for the period 2000-2010 will be undertaken. Information will be sourced from multiple provincial or national information systems and/or databases. Third, we will conduct semistructured group or individual interviews with senior health, education, ROS managing agency managers (where appropriate) and finance managers and/policy makers in each country to determine managers' perceptions, challenges and the costs and benefits of these schemes. Fourth, we will interview or conduct group discussions with health professional regulatory bodies to assess their willingness to collaborate with ROS initiative funders. Ethics and dissemination Ethics approval for this study was obtained through the Human Research Ethics Committees of the University of New South Wales (HC200519), Australia; South Africa and Lesotho (065/2020); Eswatini (SHR302/2020); Namibia (SK001); and Botswana (HPDME 13/18/1). Relevant findings will be shared through presentations to participating governments, publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at relevant conferences.

Selective breeding of tilapia populations started in the early 1990s and over the past three decades tilapia has become one of the most important farmed freshwater species, being produced in more than 125 countries around the globe. Although genome assemblies have been available since 2011, most of the tilapia industry still depends on classical selection techniques using mass spawning or pedigree information to select for growth traits with reported genetic gains of up to 20% per generation. The involvement of international breeding companies and research institutions has resulted in the rapid development and application of genomic resources in the last few years. GWAS and genomic selection are expected to contribute to uncovering the genetic variants involved in economically relevant traits and increasing the genetic gain in selective breeding programs, respectively. Developments over the next few years will probably focus on achieving a deep understanding of genetic architecture of complex traits, as well as accelerating genetic progress in the selection for growth-, quality- and robustness-related traits. Novel phenotyping technologies (i.e. phenomics), lower-cost whole-genome sequencing approaches, functional genomics and gene editing tools will be crucial in future developments for the improvement of tilapia aquaculture. ; Nucleo Milenio INVASAL - Chile's government program, Iniciativa Cientifica Milenio from Ministerio de Economia, Fomento y Turismo Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT) CONICYT FONDECYT 3190553

Abstract What is the role of spatial peers in diffusion of information about health care? We use the implementation of a health insurance program in Karnataka, India that provided free tertiary care to poor households to explore this issue. We use administrative data on location of patient, condition for which the patient was hospitalized and date of hospitalization (10,507 observations) from this program starting November 2009 to June 2011 for 19 months to analyze spatial and temporal clustering of tertiary care. We find that the use of healthcare today is associated with an increase in healthcare use in the same local area (group of villages) in future time periods and this association persists even after we control for (1) local area fixed effects to account for time invariant factors related to disease prevalence and (2) local area specific time fixed effects to control for differential trends in health and insurance related outreach activities. In particular, we find that 1 new hospitalization today results in 0.35 additional future hospitalizations for the same condition in the same local area. We also document that these effects are stronger in densely populated areas and become pronounced as the insurance program becomes more mature suggesting that word of mouth diffusion of information might be an explanation for our findings. We conclude by discussing implications of our results for healthcare policy in developing economies.

Background: Authorizing health care providers other than physicians to prescribe medicines (i.e., non-medical prescribing, NMP) has been used to improve access to healthcare in many countries. This paper aimed to identify the scope of policies facilitating NMP worldwide and investigate the relationship of such policies with a country's physician to population ratio and economic status. Methods: A hierarchical search strategy was used. First, we compiled a list of countries and territories (n = 216) based upon World Bank record. Then, we collected relevant information for each country by using country name combined with key terms in PubMed, Google, and World Health Organization (WHO) country pharmaceutical profiles. Countries' socio-economic status and physician to population ratio were determined using data from the World Bank. Results: Legislation allowing NMP was found for 117 of 216 (54%) countries and territories. The most prevalent policy identified was that of autonomous prescribing authority (59%). Countries with low or high incomes and those with low or high physician to population ratios (3/1000) had the highest concentration of policies for NMP rights. Conclusion: Despite the varied scope of relevant policies, NMP has been implemented in countries of varied income levels and physician to population ratios. Future research is warranted to empirically examine its impact on access to care.