Rabies Realities: Navigating Barriers to Rabies Control in Rural Zambia-A Case Study of Manyinga and Mwansabombwe Districts.

Rabies persists as a longstanding issue in Zambia, despite being preventable. The current control measures, including dog vaccination, population control, and movement restriction, guided by 'The Control of Dogs Act Chapter 247 of the Laws of Zambia', have not yielded the desired impact in many areas of the country including Manyinga and Mwansabombwe districts. These two districts continue to report low dog vaccination rates, unrestricted dog movements, and escalating cases of animal and human rabies, along with dog bites.

Weighted feature value based Drug Target Protein prediction.

Drug discovery is a long process in which only a few successful new therapeutic discoveries are made and identification of drug target candidate proteins requires considerable time and efforts. However, the accumulation of information on drugs has made it possible to devise new computational methods for classifying drug target candidates. In this paper, we devise a Drug Target Protein (DT-P) classification method by the summation of weighted features which is extracted from known DT-P.

Adaptive data acquisition in MRI.

We propose an adaptive data acquisition technique that depends on the object to be imaged in magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. In this paper, we employed a matching pursuit (MP) algorithm to achieve the adaptive data acquisition. Since the matching pursuit is a greedy algorithm to find RF and gradient waveforms which are the best match for an object-signal, the signal can be decomposed with a few iterations and thereby lead reduction of imaging time in MR.