BACKGROUND Hypertension is a leading risk factor for death in sub-Saharan Africa. Quality treatment is often not available nor affordable. We assessed the effect of a voluntary health insurance program, including quality improvement of healthcare facilities, on blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive adults in rural Nigeria. METHODS We compared changes in outcomes from baseline (2009) to midline ...

As a novel performance, methanol gas conversion to dimethoxymethane (DMM) in one-step based on Fe-Mo-O (iron molybdate mixed oxides) catalysts with high surface area fabricated by metal organic frameworks (MOFs) precursors was improved. For this approach, at first, Fe(III) precursors (iron (III) 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate (MIL-100 (Fe) and iron terephthalate (MOF-...

In the qualitative classiication of cellular automata (CA) rules by Wolfram, there exists a class of CA rules (called Class 4) which exhibit complex pattern formation and long-lived dynamical activity (long transients). These properties of Class 4 CA's has led to the conjecture that Class 4 rules are Universal Turing machines i.e. they are bases for computational universality. We describe an em...

Three-neighbourhood Cellular Automata (CA) are widely studied and accepted as suitable cryptographic primitive. Rule 30, a 3-neighbourhood CA rule, was proposed as an ideal candidate for cryptographic primitive by Wolfram. However, rule 30 was shown to be weak against Meier-Staffelbach attack [7]. The cryptographic properties like diffusion and randomness increase with increase in neighbourhood...

Geothermal resources have been a source of significant clean energy in the world. The Sichuan Province is famous for its abundant geothermal China, especially western Sichuan. Aba area minority region northwestern with resources. In this study, hydrochemical and D-O analyses were conducted on eight collected springs to investigate genetic mechanism resource area. exposed temperatures pH values ...

high-resolution imagery such as ikonos satellite can produce useful information for many resource management applications. we investigated the capability of pan and multi spectral ikonos imagery of one region of tehran dated from 2005 in urban vegetation management and mapping of green cover. after data quality of images for radiometric noises, the images were geometrically corrected by polynom...

We give a construction that takes simple linear algebraic group $G$ over field and produces commutative, unital, non-associative algebra $A$ field. Two attractions of this are (1) when has type $E_8$, the is obtained by adjoining unit to 3875-dimensional representation (2) it effective, in product operation on can be implemented computer. A description $E_8$ case been requested for some time, i...