BACKGROUND Childhood iron deficiency is associated with behavioral and cognitive delays. Few studies have explored the relationship between prolonged bottle-feeding and iron-deficiency anemia among toddlers. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between prolonged bottle-feeding and iron deficiency in a nationally representative sample of children ages 1 to 3 years. DESIGN AND METHODS The Nat...

Reflective method invocation is a long known performance bottle neck in Java. Different approaches to optimizing reflective method invocation are adopted by JVMs. In this paper we present an overview of the different approaches and a performance analysis using synthetic and the DaCapo benchmarks. We implement all of the approaches in the Jikes RVM.

A standard material containing chrysotile asbestos for the validation of x-ray diffractometric quantitation was developed using an asbestos-containing building material i.e., perlite board. The board as the base material was crushed, pulverized, and homogenized. The homogeneity of the powder of perlite board was estimated by analysis of variance. The diffraction intensity values of the crystall...

Filling is a task carried out by a machine that packages liquid products such as cold drinks or water. Traditional methods of bottle filling involved placing bottles onto a conveyor and filling only one bottle at a time. This method is time consuming and expensive. The present work briefs about a machine that used to prepare automatic filling of liquid in to the bottle of different height is fu...

The appearance of bottle cells at the dorsal vegetal/marginal boundary of Xenopus embryos marks the onset of blastopore formation. The conditions leading to this epithelial activity were investigated by inducing bottle cells ectopically in the animal region with VegT or different members of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta family. Morphological studies on the ectopic bottle cells indic...

Variances involved in estimating the abundance of the nitrogen-fixing marine cyanobacterium, Trichodesmium Ehrenberg, were evaluated by repeated sampling using bottle casts and plankton net tows at two stations in the southern East China Sea. The variance among individual samples and the variance arising from subsampling processes were separated by the method of analysis of variance, and the co...

In order to corroborate the efficiency of PET bottle inspection equipment coupled with mass spectrometry detection, a method for determination of BTEX presented in the interior of returnable PET bottles was developed and validated. It was verified that the method was able to detect BTEX compounds in the range 0.1-10mL of gasoline.

Background: the prolonged habit of pacifier sucking and the prolonged use of feeding bottle may cause myofunctional disorder, such as incorrect swallowing pattern and inadequate tongue rest position. Aim: to study the effect of myofunctional therapy (MFT) associated with the removal of the habit of pacifier sucking and the use of feeding bottle (REM) on the rehabilitation of swallowing and tong...

In this research an open source, low power sensor node was developed to check the growth of mycobacteria in a culture bottle with a nitrate reductase assay method for a drug susceptibility test. The sensor system reports the temperature and color sensor output frequency change of the culture bottle when the device is triggered. After the culture process is finished, a nitrite ion detecting solu...