Background Despite recommendations from the World Health Organization in most Asian countries, young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are poorly provided and understood. The aim of this review paper is identifying barriers as well as improving strategies to access SRH information and services among Asian youth. Materials and M...

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants that have attracted great concern in the past few decades. PCBs were first synthesized in 1864 (WHO, 1993) and widely used in the United States between 1929 until their manufacture was banned in 1977 (Erickson, 1986; Nies and Vogel, 1990). Due to the widespread use of PCBs and improper disposal practices, a significant a...

We show that if 0′ is c.e. traceable by a, then a is array non-computable. It follows that there is no minimal almost everywhere dominating degree, in the sense of Dobrinen and Simpson [DS04]. This answers a question of Simpson and a question of Nies [Nie09, Problem 8.6.4]. Moreover, it adds a new arrow in [Nie09, Figure 8.1], which is a diagram depicting the relations of various ‘computational...

We show that positive measure domination implies uniform almost everywhere domination and that this proof translates into a proof in the subsystem WWKL0 (but not in RCA0) of the equivalence of various Lebesgue measure regularity statements introduced by Dobrinen and Simpson. This work also allows us to prove that low for weak 2-randomness is the same as low for Martin-Löf randomness (a result i...

Aeruginosin 298-A was isolated from the freshwater cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa (NIES-298) and is an equipotent thrombin and trypsin inhibitor. A variety of analogs were synthesized to gain insight into the structure-activity relations. We developed a versatile synthetic process for aeruginosin 298-A as well as several attractive analogs, in which all stereocenters were controlled by c...

objective: the problem of rti/sti is of growing concern worldwide, especially in developing countries; where each year 340 million new cases curable sti occur. out of these 151 million are in south and southeast asia (who, 2001). the present paper attempts to capture the prevalence of leukorrhea, its knowledge and perceptions among currently married women of the age-group, 15-49 years, in a sou...

As discussed in Sect. 3.2, it was difficult to compare GOSAT XCO2 with aircraft measurement data at some observation sites where there was a paucity of flight data on the day when GOSAT was scheduled to overpass. However, the temporal interpolation of aircraft-based XCO2 by a curve fitting method enables temporally matched cases to be obtained for all observation sites of CONTRAIL, NOAA, DOE, a...

nies include Magellan Health Services, Inc.; Beacon Health Strategies, Inc.; and Value Options. Among the interim final rule dictates that Magellan has protested is its application of parity to prescription drugs. Tony Kotin, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Magellan, says that including prescription drugs as one of the six mandated classifications was completely unanticipated and goes well beyond ...

Two lowness notions in the setting of Schnorr randomness have been studied (lowness for Schnorr randomness and tests, by Terwijn and Zambella [19], and by Kjos-Hanssen, Stephan, and Nies [7]; and Schnorr triviality, by Downey, Griffiths and LaForte [3, 4] and Franklin [6]). We introduce lowness for computable machines, which by results of Downey and Griffiths [3] is an analog of lowness for K. ...