Publications by authors named "J M Ouamba"

The importance of measuring outcomes after injury beyond mortality and morbidity is increasingly recognized, though underreported in humanitarian settings. To address shortcomings of existing outcome measures in humanitarian settings, the Activity Independence Measure-Trauma (AIM-T) was developed, and is structured in three subscales (i.e.

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Objective: To describe the implementation of case-area targeted interventions to reduce cholera transmission using a rapid, localized response in Kribi district, Cameroon.

Methods: We used a cross-sectional design to study the implementation of case-area targeted interventions. We initiated interventions after rapid diagnostic test confirmation of a case of cholera.

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Introduction: Cholera outbreaks in fragile settings are prone to rapid expansion. Case-area targeted interventions (CATIs) have been proposed as a rapid and efficient response strategy to halt or substantially reduce the size of small outbreaks. CATI aims to deliver synergistic interventions (eg, water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions, vaccination, and antibiotic chemoprophylaxis) to households in a 100-250 m 'ring' around primary outbreak cases.

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In this paper, we derive a reactivity descriptor stemming from the Fermi-Dirac population scheme, applied to density functional calculations on molecular systems. Assuming that molecular orbitals only marginally change when temperature is slightly increased from 0 K, we study the response of electron density to a change in temperature. Connection with usual conceptual density functional theory descriptors is made, and the -variation of electron density for some representative examples is given and discussed.

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