BACKGROUND Under-nutrition is a public health problem in Myanmar. Despite current efforts, the exclusive breastfeeding rate (EBF) for children under six months is only 24%. Intention to breastfeed is a strong predictor for long-term breastfeeding, however, little is known about pregnant women's breastfeeding intentions in Myanmar. We, therefore, aimed to identify the factors associated with wom...

Introduction: Biochemical failure in the first 2 years after radical prostatectomy confers an adverse prognosis compared to later biochemical relapse. This supplementary analysis of the Irish Clinical Oncology Research Group Trial 97-01 assess if this is also the case for patients managed with neo-adjuvant hormonal treatment and radiotherapy. Methods: The Irish Clinical Oncology Group initiated...

BACKGROUND The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) seeks to support breastfeeding initiation in maternity services. This study uses country-level data to examine the relationship between BFHI programming and trends in exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in 14 developing countries. METHODS Demographic and Health Surveys and UNICEF BFHI Reports provided EBF and BFHI data. Because country program...

In order to support its research, development and engineering activities in the area of distributed simulation for training and command & control, TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory has developed (and continues to enhance) an Electronic Battlespace Facility (EBF). This paper presents an overview of the EBF, including descriptions of its main components: the Advanced Simulation Framework (AS...

This paper presents a novel method for remaining useful life prediction using the Elliptical Basis Function (EBF) network and a Markov chain. The EBF structure is trained by a modified Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm in order to take into account the missing covariate set. No explicit extrapolation is needed for internal covariates while a Markov chain is constructed to represent the ev...

BACKGROUND Durations of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and predominant breastfeeding (PBF) from two different assessments, among the same mother-infant population, were investigated to determine the degree to which the assessments yielded overlapping results. METHODS Thirty Ugandan mother-infant pairs were followed up weekly from birth to three months of age with weekly short-time feeding reca...

The transition from natural forest to plantations has increased dramatically in the past decades. Forest conversion will affect soil properties and thus ecosystem services. Based on indicators, we studied differences of services among three types Liuxihe National Park analyzed effects artificial results showed that carbon sequestration evergreen broadleaf (EBF) was stronger, organic density (36...

Deficiencies in the IL-7 signaling pathway result in severe disruptions of lymphoid development in adult mice. To understand more about how IL-7 deficiency impacts early lymphoid development, we have investigated lineage restriction events within the common lymphoid progenitor (CLP) compartment in IL-7 knockout mice. This revealed that although IL-7 deficiency had a minor impact on the developm...

The development of mature B lymphoid cells involves a highly orchestrated regulation of stage- and lineage-specific genes. In this study, we report an analysis of the human surrogate L chain VpreB promoter. The promoter has an overall homology of 56% to the mouse counterpart and displays a preB cell-restricted activity in transient transfections in cell lines. The promoter harbors three indepen...