objective about 1 % of infants are of very low birth weight. however, they comprise about 50% of infant mortality. we compare the effects of continuous versus intermittent feeding on physical growth, gastrointestinal tolerance and macronutrient retention in low birth weight infants (methods a prospective randomized trial clinical trial was performed from 2004-2005. very low birth weight neonate...

An isolation enhanced dual polarized microstrip patch antenna has been designed for Sband Synthetic Aperture Radar. This antenna operates at 3.125 GHz with operating bandwidth of 150 MHz or 4.8%. The electromagnetic power is coupled from the feed line to radiating patch through proximity coupling feeding technique for better bandwidth achievement. A centre groundshorted microstrip line is creat...

─ In the present work, a circular conformal array with wideband printed dipole antennas and wideband feeding network has been designed to obtain a fully constrained cosecant squared radiation pattern using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and mutual coupling compensation. Using the circular conformal design leads to a decrease of around 33% of the length of the array antenna compared...

BACKGROUND Parental feeding practices are thought to influence children's weight status, through children's eating behavior and nutritional intake. However, because most studies have been cross-sectional, the direction of influence is unclear. Moreover, although obesity rates are high among Latino children, few studies of parental feeding practices have focused on this population. METHODS Thi...

To compare the effectiveness of treating malnourished children in different centers, the authors believe there is a need to have a simple method of adjusting mortality rates so that differences in the nutritional status of the children are taken into account. The authors compared different anthropometric indices based on weight and height to predict the risk of death among severely malnourished...

OBJECTIVE Restrictive feeding is associated with childhood obesity; however, this could be due to other factors that drive children to overeat and parents to restrict (eg, child genetics). Using a twin design to better control for confounders, we tested differences in restrictive feeding within families in relation to differences in twins' self-regulatory eating and weight status. METHODS Six...

BACKGROUND It is generally accepted that breast feeding has a beneficial effect on the health of infants and young children. Recently, a few studies have shown that the method of infant feeding is also associated with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors in adult life. AIMS To examine the association between the method of infant feeding in the first weeks after birth and glucose tolera...