OBJECTIVE To examine trends in stunting and overweight in Peruvian children, using 2006 WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study criteria. DESIGN Trend analyses using nationally representative cross-sectional surveys from Demographic and Health Surveys (1991-2011). We performed logistic regression analyses of stunting and overweight trends in sociodemographic groups (sex, age, urban-rural resid...

This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of undernutrition among the Santal children of Puruliya district of West Bengal. 442 Santal children (216 boys and 226 girls) aged 5-12 years were taken from randomly selected schools of Balarampur and Baghmundi areas of Puruliya. Nutritional status was analyzed by Z-score values according to the height for age, weight for age and weight fo...

Using the 2004 data from the Malawi Integrated Household Survey and the Malawi Community Survey, this study investigates the influence of community characteristics on stunting among children under five years of age in a rural context. Multilevel logistic regression modelling on 4284 children with stunting as the dependent variable shows that availability of daily markets and lineage defined in ...

background childhood malnutrition as a major public health problem among children in developing countries can affect physical and intellectual growth and is also considered as a main cause of child morbidity and mortality. the objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of under-nutrition and identify determinants of malnutrition among children under 6 years of age in fars province, ...

BACKGROUND A 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak resulted in mass removal of chickens in Lower Egypt, which decreased the household supply of poultry. Poultry, a key animal-source food, contains nutrients critical for child growth. This paper examines determinants of stunting between 2006 and 2008 in children 6 to 59 months of age within the context of the AI outbreak. METHODS The 2005 and 200...

Abstract The genus Pentacalia belongs to the tribe Senecioneae. It is represented by approximately 160 species predominantly distributed in Andes. Species of are characterized having a scandent habit, usually alternate leaves, axillary or terminal capitulescence, homogamous heterogamous capitula, commonly yellow ray-florets, yellowish, creamy, whitish disc-florets, sagittate caudate anther-base...

Cut dahlia (Dahlia Cav.) flowers have recently become popular in Japan, but their marketability is limited by poor vase life. During the postharvest period, senescence of petals initiates from outermost whorl and then proceeds into inner petals. We found that drawing resistances ‘Kokuchou’, ‘Nesshou’, ‘Saisetsu’ decreases with time because gradually detach ovaries. A reduction resistance occurr...

This study was conducted to assess the response of Gibberellic acid and corm division on floral attributes gladiolus cv. Punjab Dawn at Horticulture Research Farm Institute Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India during two consecutive year (2017-2019). The treatments comprised growth regulators with concentration i.e. GA3 100 ppm 200 including control (distilled water)...

trypesis caricae, a species in the same genus as the wasp studied by Murray; the numerals 8 and 9 show the elongated eighth and ninth abdominal segments, followed posteriorly by the long sheaths that hold the ovipositor, which is used to drill through the outside wall of the fig into the ovaries of the pistillate florets inside. Right: According to Joseph 9, these are three forms taken by males...

Sex determination in maize is controlled by a developmental cascade leading to the formation of unisexual florets derived from an initially bisexual floral meristem. Abortion of pistil primordia in staminate florets is controlled by a tasselseed-mediated cell death process. We positionally cloned and characterized the function of the sex determination gene tasselseed1 (ts1). The TS1 protein enc...