Abstract Using primary data collected from 560 farm households in Dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia, this study analyzes the gender gaps food security among male, female, and joint decision-making households. It examines factors inducing of those three categories. The results show that female have a lower probability ensuring food-security higher being transitionally chronically food-insecure. Joi...

stability and structural change of iranian consumers' preference for tea commodities during 1988-2005 is investigated throughout the coarse of this study. to this end, nonparametric test of revealed preference has been utilized. results of weak axiom of revealed preference (warp) show that in 1995 a contradiction has been in observed consumers' preference for tea with the null hypothe...

The results of a randomised double-blind clinical trial of 3% acyclovir and 0.5% idoxuridine (IDU) ophthalmic ointments in 60 patients with corneal dendritic ulceration are presented. Ulcers in all 30 patients treated with acyclovir healed compared with 22 (76%) of 29 patients treated with IDU (P < 0.01). Patients treated with acyclovir healed more rapidly (average 4.4 days) than those who rece...

Transient disturbances were applied to the lower limbs of infants (3-10 mo of age) while they were supported to stepped on a treadmill. The aim was to determine how stepping infants respond to novel disturbances that would disrupt equilibrium during independent walking. Their responses were also compared with those from lower mammals and adult humans. In the first series of experiments, the mot...