Dracunculiasis, also called guinea worm disease (GWD), is an infection by the guinea worm.

The first well known worm was the Internet Worm of 1988, which infected SunOS and VAX BSD systems.

It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm.

Guinea worm disease has been known since ancient times.

It is still fragmented and does not provide for mobility of its workforce.

Individual farms are fragmented and not market oriented.

Agricultural property continues to be heavily fragmented.

Even power itself is more fragmented than ever.

But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine, so that it withered.

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

The country s complex and inter linked problems cannot be tackled in a piecemeal fashion.

What will emerge could be a fragmented, easily manipulated region.

They do distributed practice, so little shots of 40 minutes several days over a period of two weeks.

Indeed, it could lead to piecemeal legislation, disintegration, and potentially the breakup of the Union.

As a result, assistance is often piecemeal, slow and ill suited to the ultimate goal.

option does not appear to be solving current lack of political visibility and authority with forests being regarded as a low profile issue in the international agenda.

But many of China s antifragile measures have been piecemeal and incomplete.

Dambudzo Marechera's image and his poem THE BAR STOOL EDIBLE WORM. Image posted on his Facebook page.

I am against everything, Marechera declared in The Bar Stool Edible Worm, one of his most popular poems

Don't be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you, says Yahweh, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Many corporations only use CRM systems on a partial or fragmented basis.

1.63 Figure 2 shows the 2006 2007 regular budget broken down into categories of expenditure.

The pork tapeworm is particularly common in Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

Unlike diseases such as smallpox and polio, there is no vaccine or drug therapy for guinea worm.

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is one of the longest known animals, with specimens up to long and up to wide being reported.

European banks remain balkanized, with a patchwork of national regulators seeking to promote their own champions.

Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx or domesticated silkworm silk wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers.

Its land titling was fragmented, the laws governing land acquisition were archaic, and the process of rezoning land for industrial use was non transparent.

Knowledge on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals exists, but it is often fragmented and spread among several countries.

One example is the tobacco hornworm, which concentrates nicotine to a toxic level in its body as it consumes tobacco plants.

Intelligence collection is a good example, and the elaborate Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges seems to have been a government creation.

And because I have always been known to be a bookworm, I tried to transfer this love of reading and learning to my daughter.

Elsewhere, available information on the value of e commerce is fragmentary, although there appears to be clear growth.

As complex civilizations arose in the Eastern Hemisphere, most indigenous societies in the Americas remained relatively simple for some time, fragmented into diverse regional cultures.

The silk worm does a remarkable thing it uses these two ingredients, protein and water, that are in its gland, to make a material that is exceptionally tough for protection so comparable to technical fibers like Kevlar.

The largest monolithic mirror in use are currently the two primary mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope, each with a diameter of 8.4 meters.

Put another way, the challenges that the above list entails in the economic governance sphere alone call for authorities and capacities that only sovereign States are usually able to deploy, even if not many of them can successfully address a comprehensive development agenda.

As such, the Committee was of the opinion that a number of the proposals made by the Secretary General are, in fact, piecemeal at this stage and would need to be revisited in the light of the panel's review.

The name dracunculiasis is derived from the Latin affliction with little dragons , while the name guinea worm appeared after Europeans saw the disease on the Guinea coast of West Africa in the 17th century.

Even if every special procedure were to have the benefit of an advisory group or even if the special procedures were to get together to propose new standards, their experience would remain compartmentalized according to their mandates

Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.

The eurozone, currently wrestling with fiscal imbalance and sovereign debt risk, has a strong and autonomous central bank, but is fiscally fragmented and only partly unified politically.

In addressing social issues, whether within State organizations where power was centralized, or among segmented or clan based communities in which it was more diffuse, the approach adopted in exercising authority was one that favoured collective actors and group behaviour.

The concept of interim agreements has now become utterly obsolete, if only because the parties are incapable of paying the political price inherent in an open ended, piecemeal process.