Background The postnatal period represents a vulnerable phase for mothers and newborns where both face increased risk of morbidity and death. WHO recommends postnatal care (PNC) for mothers and newborns to include a first contact within 24 hours following the birth of the child. However, measuring coverage of PNC in household surveys has been variable over time. The two largest household survey...

We report on the first successful synthesis of Er-doped III-N double heterostructures (DHs) grown on sapphire substrates. AlGaN layers, with an Al concentration of ∼12%, were prepared by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition and Er-doped GaN layers by molecular beam epitaxy. The Er concentration was estimated to be ∼1018 cm−3. GaN:Er/AlGaN single heterostructures (SHs) and AlGaN/GaN:Er/AlGaN D...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Personal Identification Systems Thrust Area focuses on developing an “accurate, contactless, near real-time capability to identify known threats...through effective, interoperable multi-biometrics capabilities” (DHS Web site, 2009). A robust ability to accurately identify people from video under a variety of real-world conditions is an important ...

El saneamiento es un derecho humano reconocido a nivel internacional y nacional. Como tal, uno de los principales retos que tienen Estados lograr su realización progresiva. Sin embargo, México enfrenta diversos problemas para atender temas saneamiento, tales como cuestiones técnicas, sociodemográficas, presupuestales, institucionales, normativas, entre otras, dificultan el cumplimiento este der...

Currently, approximately half of all hip fractures are extracapsular, with an incidence as high as 50 in 100,000 in some countries. The common classification systems fail to explain the logistics of fracture classification and whether they all behave in the same manner. The Muller AO classification system is a useful platform to delineate stable and unstable fractures. The Dynamic hip screw (DH...

Recently, more studies have aimed at identifying selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) modulators that transactivate the expression of PPARγ-dependent genes as partial agonists to improve diabetic symptoms with fewer side effects compared to classic PPARγ agonists such as thiazolidinediones. We found that dihydrosanguinarine (DHS) treatment induced preadipocyte diff...

Clusters of fast and slow correlated particles, identified as dynamical heterogeneities (DHs), constitute a central aspect of glassy dynamics. A key factor of the glass transition scenario is a significant increase of the cluster size ξ4 as the transition is approached. In need of easy-to-compute tools to measure ξ4, the dynamical susceptibility χ4 was introduced recently, and used in various e...

A new approach stemming from the adiabatic-connection (AC) formalism is proposed to derive parameter-free double-hybrid (DH) exchange-correlation functionals. It is based on a quadratic form that models the integrand of the coupling parameter, whose components are chosen to satisfy several well-known limiting conditions. Its integration leads to DHs containing a single parameter controlling the...

The Department of Health and Department of Human Services (DH & DHS) Data Reform Program (formerly the DH & DHS Information Management (IM) Strategy) was established to improve the efficiency of data collection and reporting arrangements between the departments and external organisations and individuals. The Data Reform Program is being undertaken incrementally and focuses on reducing the proli...

Subtrochanteric fractures are common and result in significant morbidity and mortality. Various kinds of implants have been used to fix it. The aim of this study was to compare the biomechanical performance of PFN, DHS, DCS, and the PFLP in the treatment of subtrochanteric comminuted fractures.A total of 32 antiseptic human femurs from 16 donors were randomly allocated to 4 groups for fixation ...