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  Idu - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Idu is an archaic writing system which represents the Korean language using hanja.
The idu script used Chinese characters, called Hanja, as a base, along with special symbols to indicate Korean verb endings and other grammatical markers that were different in Korean from Chinese.
This made both the meaning and pronunciation difficult to parse, and was one reason why the system was gradually abandoned, to be replaced with hangul, after the 15th century.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Idu   (196 words)

  
 Injection Drug Use (IDU)
IDU related infections occur as a consequence of the use of non sterile equipment (needles, syringes, spoons, cups etc.) and solutions which allow micro organisms to overcome the normal defence mechanisms by direct entry into subcutaneous tissues, muscle or the blood stream.
IDU together with the sharing of injection equipment and paraphernalia between users facilitates the spread of a number of blood borne organisms notably viruses.
IDU related HIV was first noted from retrospective analysis of sera to have begun in New York in 1978, in Italy in 1979, in Germany in 1982, in Edinburgh, Dublin and Sweden in 1983, and in Copenhagen in 1984[47,49-52].
www.link.med.ed.ac.uk /RIDU/Hxidu.htm   (6522 words)

  
 Idu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Idu munja is an archaic writing system which represents the Korean language using hanja.
In this sense it includes hyangchal and gugyeol writing, as well as the narrower sense of "idu." The narrower sense refers solely to the system developed in the Goryeo period, and first referred to by name in the Jewang Ungi.
Idu Munja was the language of the Ye-Maek tribes, also known as the Dongyi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Idu   (481 words)

  
 AIDS vaccine, HIV vaccine research: IAVIReportOnline.org
While the numbers of IDU infections in any one country may not be large on a population basis, these states have enormous young populations, many with rapidly rising substance abuse rates.
IDU transmission is often perceived as being more efficient than mucosal transmission, but careful analysis of the data suggest that this is not the case.
IDUs generally face many of the same behavioral and psychological challenges common to substance abusers, but also legal and social harms due to the illegality of the substances they use.
www.iavireport.org /Issues/0602/idus.asp   (2630 words)

  
 IDU Press Office on ITWeb
Dynamic and inspired, idu is a group of energetic entrepreneurs driven to make a difference in the markets we serve.
idu has combined software development skills with financial expertise to form a formidable team providing financial consulting advice to large- and medium-sized companies and distributing a suite of proprietary financial planning and reporting software.
From the outset, idu enjoyed considerable success in the South African market and soon found that the delivery of additional user-friendly applications added immense value to our clients.
www.itweb.co.za /office/idu/profile.htm   (454 words)

  
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The IDU can be of any size (the application may, if it wishes, split the IDU into pieces and have the protection computed a piece at a time, but the resulting protection token applies to the entire IDU).
During the protection operation, the input IDU buffers may be modified (for example, the data may be encrypted or encoded in some way) or may remain unchanged.
It includes both the single-buffer and multiple-buffer IDU cases and can be used for signing only, encrypting only, signing and encrypting (in either order, and with or without visibility of the resulting signature), and "clear signing" (where the data is not modified in any way and the signature itself is returned as a separate item).
www3.ietf.org /proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-cat-idup-gss-11.txt   (11953 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS Among Injecting Drug Users in Canada - HIV/AIDS Epi Updates, April 2003 - Public Health Agency of Canada
The proportion of adult male AIDS cases attributed to IDU steadily increased from 3.4% in 1991 to a peak of 19.3% in 2000.
IDU is cited as one of the main modes of transmission for those living with HIV/AIDS in 7 of the 10 regions of the world and include North America, North Africa and Middle East, Western Europe and East Asia and Pacific.
Given the geographic mobility of IDU and their social and sexual interaction with non-users, the dual problem of injecting drug use and HIV infection is one that ultimately affects all of Canadian society.
www.phac-aspc.gc.ca /publicat/epiu-aepi/hiv-vih/idus_e.html   (2520 words)

  
 Harm Reduction Journal | Full text | Effectiveness of harm reduction programmes for injecting drug users in Dhaka city
In a Rapid Situation Assessment conducted in 2002 [1] IDU were found in 20/24 sites studied and although this assessment was not an exercise in enumerating the number of drug users in the country, it was apparent that the maximum number of IDU were in the capital city, Dhaka.
The serological surveillance in Bangladesh accesses IDU through intervention programmes [6] and the reason for this is that blood samples cannot be collected in the field setting and results of syphilis tests and treatment for syphilis can only be provided to the IDU in a clinical setting.
IDU are not only at risk of acquiring HIV through injection sharing but also through unprotected sex [12] which can also allow transmission to other non-IDU partners in their sexual network [13-15].
www.harmreductionjournal.com /content/2/1/22   (3032 words)

  
 The Body: HIV Diagnoses Among Injection-Drug Users in States With HIV Surveillance -- 25 States, 1994-2000
The findings indicate that HIV diagnoses among IDUs have leveled in the majority of demographic groups during this period in the 25 states for which HIV surveillance data are available*.
Because IDUs and their sex partners represent approximately one third of persons infected in the HIV epidemic and continue to be at risk for transmitting HIV, prevention efforts targeting IDUs and their sex partners should be enhanced.
Drug treatment for IDUs, medical treatment for HIV-positive IDUs, and programs to prevent initiation of injection-drug use should be enhanced to prevent HIV infection and transmission among IDUs and their sex and drug-sharing partners.
www.thebody.com /cdc/idus_aids.html   (1608 words)

  
 What is an IDU?
IDU (In-Door Unit) refers to the set of satellite equipment which is placed inside the building.
The IDU is connected to the ODU (Out-Door-Unit) by the IFL (Intra-Facility-Link).
In consumer satellite television applications, the IDU usually consists of a satellite receiver which is connected to a television.
www.tech-faq.com /idu.shtml   (88 words)

  
 HPA | Immunisation and Diagnosis Unit (IDU)
IDU is a national and international reference centre for rash associated viral infections and the unit receives clinical samples and virus isolates from HPA, National Health Service and commercial laboratories across the UK and from overseas.
IDU is a WHO global measles reference laboratory.
IDU is also the co-ordinating partner in a European Union funded project to harmonise laboratory diagnosis and genotyping of measles across the member countries (Enhanced Laboratory Surveillance of Measles, ELSM).
www.hpa.org.uk /cfi/vrd/idu/default.htm   (611 words)

  
 AEGiS-05CROI: The increasing impact of injecting drug use (IDU) on the AIDS epidemic, New York City (NYC), the first ...
An IDU associated case (IDU-A) is a case where the risk behavior was IDU or MSM/IDU, or heterosexual sex with an IDU, or birth from a mother with such a risk.
Results: IDU-A increased from 2,559 of 6,517 (39%) cases diagnosed before 1986, to 11,215 of 22,541 (50%) for 1986-89, 22,774 of 39,655 (57%) for 1990-93, and 14,776 of 25,385 (58%) for 1994-August 1997.
To reduce IDU-A HIV transmission, prevention strategies must attempt to stop unsafe drug use and sex by the drug user and increase awareness of the risk of sex with an IDU in non-drug users.
www.aegis.com /conferences/croi/1998/128.html   (391 words)

  
 HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education Effective Interventions for Injecting Drug Users - WA St. DOH
IDUs regularly reported follow-up reductions in 5 major risk behaviors: stopping injecting, reducing frequency of injecting, reducing reuse of syringes, reducing reuse of other equipment, reducing crack use.
Female IDU and female sex partners of IDUs contacted via street outreach were reached individually (4, 724) or in groups (7,829).
From the 12 studies the results were: 50% of the studies showed some increase in needle hygiene; 42% showed decrease in needle or drug use; 25% showed increase in condom usage and, 17% showed decrease sexual partners.
www.doh.wa.gov /cfh/hiv_aids/Prev_Edu/Effective_Interventions/4_idu_ints.htm   (4355 words)

  
 The International Democratic Union -> IDU Election Charter
Any UN member in the IDU who has been in the IDU for more than 2 weeks may announce their candidacy and can be voted on.
All important announces, such as the members of the election commission, campaining start, election start and stop and election result should be posted on the IDU regional board and in the IDU forum by one of the members of the election commission, either the Founder, the current UN delegate or the impartial member.
To maintain these traditions, it is vital that the most powerful function in the IDU, that of the UN Delegate, is fulfilled in the same manner, and that the process to appoint the Delegate is transparant and democratic.
s10.invisionfree.com /IDU/index.php?showtopic=5   (2956 words)

  
 The Body: Dangerous Intersection of Drug Use and Sexual HIV Transmission Points to Critical Need for Comprehensive HIV ...
Sharing needles for drug injection is a well known route of HIV transmission, yet injection drug use contributes to the epidemic's spread far beyond the circle of those who inject.
They must be advised to always use sterile injection equipment; warned never to reuse needles, syringes, and other injection equipment; and told that using syringes that have been cleaned with bleach or other disinfectants is not as safe as using new, sterile syringes.
HIV prevention strategies for IDUs who continue to inject have included various approaches to increasing the availability of sterile syringes, reducing the risk of HIV transmission through needle sharing, and increasing access to drug treatment.
www.thebody.com /cdc/idu.html   (1346 words)

  
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If an application protects several IDUs and sends them all to a single receiver, the IDUs may be unprotected by that receiver in any order over any time span; no logical connection of any kind is implied by the protection process itself.
When a P- IDU is to be "unprotected", it is passed to an IDUP-GSS-API implementation for processing.
The calling application, knowing the size of the IDU it wishes to protect and the buffer size which it has available to it, can choose to input the entire IDU in a single buffer and omit the subsequent IDUP_Protect() and IDUP_End_Protect() calls.
www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc2479.txt   (11883 words)

  
 IDU - ball shaped robots
The driving force is the gravitational moment generated by the IDU when driven by its motors.
IDU's center of mass is as low as possible.
Instruments like MOS and EGA are also assembled into the lower part of the IDU, but their operation needs a shutter/window mechanism in the cover and controlling the IDU to the position, where the sensor can operate through it.
private.peterlink.ru /rcl/iducoop.htm   (504 words)

  
 NASA IS/IDU: Objectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
The IDU subproject seeks techniques that transform raw data into knowledge and action.
The IDU subproject supports development of such methods, plus other advances in intelligent data mining of complex data sets.
The IDU Knowledge Discovery element focuses on tools and techniques for finding valid, novel, potentially useful, and ultimately understandable patterns in data, to transform information into knowledge.
is.arc.nasa.gov /IDU/objectives.html   (1278 words)

  
 iduWeb
At idu werealised this and developed a purpose built module to focus users on the real costs and analyse these against both budget andlast years comparatives.
Idu software, founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, is a leading software development company, specializing in the development, sales and support of our propriety software products, which are designed to simplify the processes of financial management.
Idu's Concept product is South Africa's leading financial budgeting, forecasting and MIS solution, in use in over 40 listed organizations both locally and internationally.
www.idu.co.za /index.asp   (5004 words)

  
 Disclosure of HIV Status of IDU Depends on Context   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
By Will Boggs, MD Whether or not HIV-infected intravenous drug users (IDUs) disclose their status to partners depends on the context, according to a report in the August issue of AIDS Patient Care and STDs.
More than half the subjects disclosed that they were HIV-positive before the first sexual contact with their primary partner, the authors report, but nearly three-quarters (71.2%) of those reporting sex with a non-primary partner disclosed their HIV-positive status before having sex for the first time.
These consistent disclosers, the investigators report, were more likely than others to wear condoms without resentment and to endorse the attitude that it is all right if the partner doesn't want to have sex because of the disclosed HIV-positive status.
www.hivandhepatitis.com /recent/idu/092404_t.html   (510 words)

  
 FHI - IDU Sex, Injection Behaviors Study
One of the largest of these groups is injecting drug users (IDU).
Previous studies of IDUs in the Kathmandu Valley have already shown important data related to the types of drugs used, injecting and sharing behaviors, and sexual activities that pose a high risk for HIV/AIDS transmission.
The report determines the concentrations and numbers of IDUs, and further examines the patterns of drug and sex behaviors, including drug and needle sharing and networking.
www.fhi.org /en/HIVAIDS/country/Nepal/res_idunepal.htm   (190 words)

  
 Effect of 5-Iodo-2'-Deoxyuridine on Vaccinia Virus (Orthopoxvirus) Infections in Mice -- Neyts et al. 46 (9): 2842 -- ...
Effect of IDU on VV-induced morbidity and mortality in intranasally infected SCID mice.
Effect of IDU or HPMPC on VV-induced mortality in intranasally infected SCID mice.
IDU was administered subcutaneously at 150 mg/kg/day from day 0 to 4 and at 75 mg/kg/day from day 7 to 11, and HPMPC was administered at 25 mg/kg/day from day 0 to 4 and from day 7 to 11.
aac.asm.org /cgi/content/full/46/9/2842   (3869 words)

  
 NASA IS/IDU/Data Mining   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
The IDU Data Mining (DM) technical area is about techniques for processing and combining raw data -- from large, distributed, heterogeneous, multidimensional data sets with complex spatial and/or temporal dynamics -- to detect patterns and regularities.
The IDU approach adds domain-specific, model-based techniques to help with preprocessing and with statistical techniques for detecting interesting correlations and patterns.
The IDU subproject supports research in automated methods for discovering useful patterns and developing such generalized models.
is.arc.nasa.gov /IDU/DM.html   (342 words)

  
 Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (IDUP-GSS-API)
IDUP_S_BAD_ENC_IDU indicates that decryption of the received IDU cannot be completed because the encrypted IDU was invalid/defective (e.g., the final block was short or had incorrect padding).
This group of calls is devoted to the establishment and management of an environment for the purpose of IDU protection and unprotection.
This group of calls is used to perform IDU protection and unprotection processing on an established IDUP environment.
xml.resource.org /public/rfc/html/rfc2479.html   (12521 words)

  
 NASA IS/IDU: Customers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
The IDU subproject focuses in particular on Earth Science and its massive, distributed, heterogeneous, spatiotemporal data sets.
IDU tasks are motivated by particular data analysis problems, but are expected to produce robust techniques with broad applicability.
The IDU subproject also supports Space Flight (Code M) and Aerospace Technology (Code R) with methods to integrate vehicle databases and establish causal relationships for safety of operations.
is.arc.nasa.gov /IDU/customers.html   (174 words)

  
 Idu set to dominate budget software market with Concept 4.0
Cape-based finance budgeting and product development specialist idu Software aims to dominate the budget and forecasting software market with the release of idu-Concept 4.0, designed to eliminate the pitfalls inherent in the sales budget and forecast cycle.
"The initial release of the software, which will be supplemented with additional modules in coming months, focuses on sales budgeting, using the idu-Concept sales module, previously idu Target, in the new framework," says idu MD Kevin Phillips.
"Idu-Concept 4.0 is the first of a new generation of products set to reinforce idu Software as the de facto leader in the budget and forecasting space in SA, designing tools to empower users to take ownership of budgets, forecasts and expense management for their cost centres," says Phillips.
www.itweb.co.za /office/idu/0506230936.htm   (592 words)

  
 The International Democratic Union -> Political Map Of The Idu
The IDU has a large proportion of members active in the United Nations and its affiliates:
It is the 15th proposal to come from the IDU.
Political Map Of The Idu, This is where we all are.
s10.invisionfree.com /IDU/index.php?showtopic=343   (944 words)

  
 NASA IS/Intelligent Data Understanding   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
The Intelligent Data Understanding (IDU) subproject of NASA's Intelligent Systems Project develops techniques for transforming data into scientific understanding.
In particular, IDU approaches will help scientists use Earth-orbiting satellites to establish cause-and-effect relationships in global warming and other important phenomena.
Descriptions of funded research tasks may be found in the IDU Tasks page.
is.arc.nasa.gov /IDU/index.html   (152 words)

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