Second-hand smoke exposure is a major risk factor for respiratory tract infections (RTIs). Although evidence suggests important early-life health benefits of smoke-free public environments, the impact on childhood RTIs is unclear. We investigated the association between England's smoke-free legislation and childhood RTI hospitalisations.We used the Hospital Episode Statistics database to obtain...

India is home to the highest number of adolescents in the world. Adolescents in India suffer from lack of knowledge and empowerment to make informed sexual and reproductive health decisions. This paper analyses the prevalence of reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections (RTI/STI) and treatment seeking behavior among married adolescent women in India aged 15-19 years. Dat...

Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health worldwide. As the healthcare sector's use of antibiotics is an important contributor to the development of resistance, it is crucial that physicians only prescribe antibiotics when needed and that they choose narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which act on fewer bacteria types, when possible. Inappropriate use of antibiotics is nonetheless wide...

In this paper, a dynamic and stochastic notion of public transport network vulnerability is develoepd. While previous studies have considered only the network topology, the non-continuous availability of services requires a more refined model for supply and demand interactions in order to evaluate the impacts of disruptions. We extend the measures of betweenness centrality (often used to identi...

Background: Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI) have a direct impact on reproductive and child health through infertility, cancers, pregnancy complications, they an indirect their role in facilitating the sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus. Objectives: To find prevalence determinants RTI/STI among married women age group rural peri-urban areas Aligarh. Methods: The data were co...

The highly nonlinear evolution of the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) at the ablation front of an accelerated target is investigated in the parameter range typical of inertial confinement fusion implosions. A new phase of the nonlinear bubble evolution is discovered. After the linear growth phase and a short constant-velocity phase, it is found that the bubble is accelerated to ve...

The request for a sustainable development challenges both managers and consumers to rethink habitual practices and activities. While consumers are challenged to develop sustainable consumption patterns, companies are asked to establish managerial systems and structures considering economical, ecological, and social issues. As this is in particular true for housing associations, this paper aims ...

With the increase in complexity of simulations, there is a growing need for accessing large amount of computing resource and data sets which could be geographically distributed. The Grid provides an infrastructure for collaborative resource sharing to execute large-scale applications. In this paper, we propose a framework for distributed simulation using the High Level Architecture (HLA) over t...

Nja F, Nystad W, Hetlevik O, Lodrup Carlsen KC, Carlsen K-H. Arch Dis Child. 2003;88:566–569 Purpose of the Study. To determine whether a history of otitis media (OM) and respiratory tract infection (RTI) was associated with allergic sensitization and asthma among school-aged children. Study Population. A total of 4585 children from 4 cities in Norway were surveyed for this study. Children recr...