BACKGROUND The northern territory Nunavut has Canada's largest jurisdictional land mass with 33,322 inhabitants, of which 85% self-identify as Inuit. Nunavut has rates of infant mortality, postneonatal mortality and hospitalisation of infants for respiratory infections that greatly exceed those for the rest of Canada. The infant mortality rate in Nunavut is 3 times the national average, and twi...

Based on strong research evidence: All infants should be placed in the supine position for every sleep. Tobacco exposure pre- and postnatally should be avoided. Room sharing without bed sharing is recommended. It is recommended that blankets, pillows, and other soft bedding be removed from the infant sleep area. Overheating should be avoided. Breastfeeding should be encouraged for SIDS risk red...

Abstract Introduction Nighttime infant care practices differ across the globe. In western cultures, where independent solitary sleep is norm, there an expectation that parental presence at bedtime minimized in favour of teaching children initiation, maintenance, and resumption skills. non-western overnight accepted norm. Despite against current safe-sleep recommendations, rates co-sleeping bed-...

ummary urpose.—The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infecion in a population of schoolchildren six years of age and to identify the risk factors that redispose children to such infection. atients and methods.—A total of 1055 first-grade primary-school pupils were included. Socioeonomic factors, eating habits, gastrointestinal complaints and family history...

There has been an increasing interest in the geographic aspects of economic development, exemplified by P. Krugman's logical analysis. We show in this paper that the geographic aspects of economic development can be modeled using multi-agent systems that incorporate multiple underlying factors. The extent of information sharing is assumed to be a driving force that leads to economic geographic ...

Introduction  Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a disease which causes unexpected death of infants aged less than 1 year. Given the undeniable role of parents in the presence or absence of SIDS risk factors, the present study aimed to studythe prevalence and the relationship between characteristics and conditions of parent’s infants with SIDS risk factors. Materials and Methods  In this cr...

We apply some of the existing web server redundancy techniques for high service availability and scalability to the relatively new IP telephony context. The paper compares various failover and load sharing methods for registration and call routing servers based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). In particular, we consider SIP server failover techniques based on the clients, DNS (Domain N...

OBJECTIVES To identify and assess dangers associated with placing children younger than 2 years to sleep in adult beds. This article focuses on overlying, wedging, and strangulation hazards and the relationship of these hazards to children's sleeping environments. DESIGN A retrospective review and analysis of data collected by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission on deaths of children yo...