OBJECTIVE To determine the impact of facility-based semi-intensive and home-based intensive counselling in improving exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) in a low-resource urban setting in Kenya. DESIGN A cluster randomized controlled trial in which nine villages were assigned on a 1:1:1 ratio, by computer, to two intervention groups and a control group. The home-based intensive counselling group (...

Questioning this report, a recent study conducted by CIRAD in four different regions shows that extensive dairy systems in Mali can be more efficient than intensive systems in Reunion Island, and just as efficient as semi-intensive systems in western France. This result was obtained using the emergy methodology, which uses one type of unit to evaluate all the resources consumed to generate food...

Constructing richly axiomatized ontologies for real-world knowledge-intensive applications is a time-consuming and difficult task. For this reason, the future relevance of ontologies in practice depends on the availability of advanced semi-automatic methods for ontology learning and refinement. In this paper we propose a method to enrich ontologies with complex axiomatic information by completi...

This study evaluated the nursing workload in an inpatient unit of a university hospital. This descriptive study applied the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) over the course of 30 consecutive days. A total of 1,080 observations were obtained from the medical files of 156 patients. The average scored obtained in the NAS instrument was 47.31%. Considering that each single NAS score corresponds to 0....

The study of egg-laying patterns and defining ways increasing productivity is a necessary condition for the development increased efficiency ostrich breeding. Therefore, some studies deal with egg ostriches different age groups (group 1 - 8-9 years, group 2 4-5 years) their long-term keeping under semi-intensive system forest-steppe zone Ukraine. sex ratio in families was 1: 2-3. Behavioral pou...