Background: Malnutrition in children including lower nutrient intakes or high density food intakes is of recent world concerns; therefore, determining a simple index that reveals the diet adequacy might be an advantage. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done among 233 children aged 2-5 years old. A 24-hour dietary questionnaire was used to calculate mean adequacy ratio (MAR), naturally nu...

Neuroblastoma (NB) is considered one of the malignant tumors of the nervous system which originates from primordial neural crest cell and is known as the most common extra-cranial solid tumor in childhood. This tumor which is often intra-abdominal, metastases in various sites including the skull, long bones, liver, bone marrow and lymph nodes, but lung metastasis at initial diagnosis is rare (0...

vancomycin-resistant enterococci (vre) are becoming a major concern in medical practice. their increased prevalence and their ability to transfer vancomycin resistance to other bacteria have made them a subject of close scrutiny and intense investigation. colonization is usually acquired by susceptible hosts in an environment with a high rate of patient colonization with vre. the aim of this st...

Background and Aim: Traumatic dental injuries (TDI) and dental caries are among the prevalent oral health issues in preschool children that can lead to psychosocial and physical complications. Therefore, it is crucial to assess their effects on children’s oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). This study aimed to assess the effect of oral health status on OHRQoL of 2- to 5-year-old child...

Ryan DeRosa, Jennifer C Driggers, Dani Atkinson, Haixing Miao, Valery Frolov, Michael Landry, Joseph Giaime, 4 and Rana Adhikari Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70803 LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125 LIGO Hanford Observatory, 127124 N Route 10, Richland, Washington, 99354 LIGO Livingston Obs...

In a retrospective survey of 301 women aged over 70 with breast cancer the factors affectingfive-year survival are evaluated. The local disease is more advanced when the patient presents with it in old age than in younger women, possibly associated with a lesser degree of awareness or a long history of the primary tumour. It is not associated with a different average rate of tumour growth in ol...

Generalized Cross Validation (GCV) is a popular approach to determining the regularization parameter in Tikhonov regularization. The regularization parameter is chosen by minimizing an expression, which is easy to evaluate for small-scale problems, but prohibitively expensive to compute for large-scale ones. This paper describes a novel method, based on Gauss-type quadrature, for determining up...

ERP was one of the important developments in the use of information technology for organizations in the 1990s. Y2K rectification was a key driver in the decision to move to ERP software. Based on diffusion-of-innovation models, in this study, the sources of influence of ERP adoption in Taiwan are investigated and if the dawning Y2K can be viewed as a critical point is explored. The results demo...

The ridesharing economy is experiencing rapid growth and innovation. Companies such as Uber and Lyft are continuing to grow at a considerable pace while providing their platform as an organizing medium for ridesharing services, increasing consumer utility as well as employing thousands in part-time positions. However, many challenges remain in the modeling of ridesharing services, many of which...

In this paper we study the disturbance response of open-loop neutrally stable linear systems with saturating linear feedback controller. It is shown that the closed-loop states remain bounded if the disturbances consists of those signals that do not have large sustained frequency components corresponding to the system’s eigenvalues on the imaginary axis (continuous-time) or on the unit circle (...