BACKGROUND In developing countries about 3.5% of children aged 0-5 years are victims of severe acute malnutrition (SAM). Once the morbidity has developed the cure process takes variable period depending on various factors. Knowledge of time-to-cure from SAM will enable health care providers to plan resources and monitor the progress of cases with SAM. The current analysis presents modeling time...

This paper highlights the need and relevance of standards in the modern complex business world, and identifies the critical problem on the interaction and collaboration of formal bodies and industry consortia that are co-responsible for standards development. Then, the discusses specific aspects relating to competition and co-operation in ICT standards setting, including a discussion about the ...

Acupuncture was used to treat a 51-year-old 'lollipop lady' (school crossing patrol officer), with severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) affecting her dominant hand, and co-existing cervical spondylosis. I postulate that her symptoms were work related. She responded well to acupuncture, which provided good symptomatic treatment rather than cure and allowed her to continue working whilst she await...

nanocomposite samples based on elastomer blends of butyl rubber (iir) and ethylene propylene diene monomer (epdm) were prepared using a laboratory scale two-roll mill in order to study the effect of cloisite 15a organoclay content (i.e., 1, 3, 5 and 7 wt%) on the mechanical and morphological properties  of  iir/epdm/cloisite  15a  nanocomposites  compared  to  the  unflled epdm/iir blends. rheo...

Effective scheduling in the Grid consisting of heterogeneous and distributed resources is imperative in order to counter unacceptably large overheads of the Grid. We proposed the grid middleware (pyBubble) supporting the DAG based co-scheduling for improving the performance of the RPC mechanism. DAG based co-scheduling reduces redundant transmission of input and output data from execution of th...

The title compound, [Co(C(2)H(8)N(2))(3)][CoMo(CN)(8)(C(2)H(8)N(2))(2)(H(2)O)]·2H(2)O, is isostructural with the Ni(II) analogue. The Mo(IV) atom is coordinated by eight cyanide ligands, one of which forms a bridge to a Co(II) atom that is itself coordinated by two bidentate ethane-1,2-diamine (en) ligands and one water mol-ecule. Another Co(II) complex, coordinated to three bidentate en ligand...

BACKGROUND Both tribendimidine and mebendazole are broad-spectrum drugs for anti-intestinal nematodes. We aim to assess the efficacy and safety of tribendimidine and mebendazole in patients with co-infection of Clonorchis sinensis and other helminths. METHOD We performed a randomized open-label trial in Qiyang, People's Republic of China. Eligible participants were randomly assigned to one of...

Counter-selectable markers can be used in two-hybrid systems to search libraries for a protein or compound that interferes with a macromolecular interaction or to identify macromolecules from a population that cannot mediate a particular interaction. In this report, we describe the adaptation of the yeast URA3/5-FOA counter-selection system for use in bacterial interaction trap experiments. Two...