Background: The use of indices of infant and young child feeding practices to predict growth has generated inconsistent results, possibly through age and seasonal confounding. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of a dietary diversity score (DDS) and infant and child feeding index (ICFI) with growth among young children in a repeated cross-sectional and a follow-up study in tw...

Hydroelectric Pumped Storage (PHS) is the most widely utilised form of large-scale electrical energy storage (EES). The energy is stored as the potential energy of water raised against gravity. Water is pumped from a lower reservoir (1) to a higher reservoir (2), using the energy provided by the pumping unit (3), storing it as potential energy in the water. Figure 1 is a simple scheme of a PHS ...

BACKGROUND In most low and middle-income countries vital events registration for births and child deaths is poor, with reporting of pregnancy outcomes highly inadequate or non-existent. Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites and periodic population-based household-level surveys can be used to identify pregnancies and retrospectively capture pregnancy outcomes to provide data fo...

Sphingolipid long-chain bases and their phosphorylated derivatives, for example, sphingosine-1-phosphate in mammals, have been implicated as signaling molecules. The possibility that Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells also use long-chain-base phosphates to regulate cellular processes has only recently begun to be examined. Here we present a simple and sensitive procedure for analyzing and quantifyi...

Contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons (PHs) is a great threat to environment due the higher persistence and bio-toxicity of PHs. Therefore, removal PHs from contaminated strategies reduce their toxic effects on living organisms are crucial for environmental safety human health. The polluted soil can be reduced addition microbes biochar. In this study, pot trial was carried out evaluate sugarc...

Background & Aims of the Study: Heavy metals discharge to environment is a worldwide problem growing in scale. When they accumulate in the environment and in food chains, they can profoundly disrupt biological processes. Peganum Harmala Seeds (PHS) was used as a bio-sorbent, using a continuous system for removing Pb2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and Cu2+ ions from aqueous solutions. ...

Introduction In the Kingdom of Swaziland, a baseline assessment found that multiple functional units within the Ministry of Health (MoH) perform PHS activities. There is limited data sharing and coordination between units; roles and responsibilities are unclear. The Epidemiology and Disease Control Unit (EDCU) is mandated to coordinate efforts and strengthen PHS through implementing Integrated ...