A study was conducted among children under 12 years of age admitted to a rural district hospital in western Kenya to evaluate the use of blood transfusions, identify risk factors for severe anemia, and determine when transfusion improves survival of severely anemic children. A total of 2433 children were admitted to the pediatric ward during the 12-month study period; 29% (684) had severe anemi...

The purpose of this study is to develop a system to automatically generate stowage plan for large containerships. The system consists of three modules: stowage plan generator, stability module and optimization engine. This paper presents the architecture and the work of the first module stowage plan generator, which is used to automatically generate a feasible stowage plan with reasonable crane...

HKJGOM 2005; 5 (1) 40 Introduction In modern days, birth control in our community has been achieved with modest success via the practice of various contraceptive methods. According to statistics from The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong (FPAHK), the contraceptive practice rate in Hong Kong has been maintained at above 80% since 19871. This is higher than the world average of 60%2. Famil...

Supply vessels provide offshore installations with necessary supplies on periodic basis from an onshore base according to weekly sailing plans. Each plan is built for a certain time horizon to guarantee required level of service to offshore installations at least cost. In a sailing plan several voyages are assigned to each vessel. The execution of sailing plans is affected by stochastic weather...

Some early attempts at scientific or philosophical discussion of life were apparent in Greece. For example, Thales (the earliest of the identified Greek philosophers) argued that everything stemmed ultimately from water. He therefore had a somewhat vague idea that descent with modification was possible, since things had to diversify from a common origin. Aristotle suggested that in every thing ...

C. J. Hansen (JPL), A. S. Aljabri (JPL), D. Banfield (Cornell), E. B. Bierhaus (LMA), M. Brown (CIT), J. E. Colwell (UCF), M. Dougherty (Imperial College, UK), A. R. Hendrix (JPL), A. Ingersoll (CIT), K. Khurana (UCLA), D. Landau (JPL), A. McEwen (UAz), D. A. Paige (UCLA), C. Paranicas (APL), C. M. Satter (JPL), B. Schmidt (UCLA), M. Showalter (ARC), L. J. Spilker (JPL), T. Spilker (JPL), J. St...

Objective: Several studies have shown that some polymorphisms of genes encoding catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT), the key enzyme in degrading dopamine, and norepinephrine and the human brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF), a nerve growth factor, are strong candidates for risk of schizophrenia (SCZ). In the present study, we aimed at examining the effects of COMT Val158Met (G>A) and BDNF V...

Charitonos, Koula and Charalampidi, Marina (2015). Designs for Heritage Language Learning: A Photography project in the UK Supplementary Education. In: Brown, Tom H. and van der Merwe, Herman J. eds. The Mobile Learning Voyage From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters: 14th World Conference, mLearn 2015, Venice, Italy, October 17-24, 2015, Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information...

The EC funded CyClaDes research project is designed to promote the increased impact of the human element in shipping across the design and operational lifecycle of ships. It addresses the design and operation of ships and ship systems. One of the CyClaDes’ tasks is to create a crew‐centered design case‐study examination of the information that is shared between the Bridge and En...

Games like Myst, Civilisation and Anno 1602 are centred around the virtual travelling of the gamer through unknown worlds. The voyage s/he undertakes often hinges on notions of colonialist exploration, turning the gamer into a traveller who surveys and masters unknown domains and learns to control techno-scientific principles along the way. Since such games are related to a mentality of colonia...