The rehabilitation services for children with cerebral palsy are provided in two forms: home-based care and center-based care. The aim of this research was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the home-based accordance with the center-based care for kids with cerebral palsy. In this cost-effectiveness research, 56 children under 12 years old were assigned randomly to two rehabilitation program...

We describe a new mechanism for pulsations in evolved stars: relaxation oscillations driven by a coupling between the luminosity-dependent mass-loss rate and the H fuel abundance in a nuclear-burning shell. When mass loss is included, the outward flow of matter can modulate the flow of fuel into the shell when the stellar luminosity is close to the Eddington luminosity LEdd. When the luminosity...

1 High frequencies of polyfunctional CD8 NK cells in 1 chronic HIV-1 infection are associated with slower 2 disease progression 3 4 Fareed Ahmad, Henoch S. Hong, Marc Jäckel, Alexandra Jablonka, I-Na Lu, 5 Nupur Bhatnagar, Johanna M. Eberhard, Benjamin A. Bollmann, Matthias Ballmaier, 6 Margot Zielinska-Skowronek, Reinhold E. Schmidt and Dirk Meyer-Olson 7 8 Klinik für Immunologie und Rheumatol...

The growing use of simulation for military training, systems analysis, acquisition, and command decision aiding has created a need to develop accurate computational models of human and organizational behavior. While the use of Human Behavior Representations (HBRs) has increased rapidly over the last decade, significantly greater acceptance within the user community would occur if better user-or...

Human eosinophil derived neurotoxin (EDN), a granule protein secreted by activated eosinophils, is a biomarker for asthma in children. EDN belongs to the human RNase A superfamily possessing both ribonucleolytic and antiviral activities. EDN interacts with heparin oligosaccharides and heparin sulfate proteoglycans on bronchial epithelial Beas-2B cells. In this study, we demonstrate that the bin...

The construction of High-Rise Buildings (HRBs) first started in the 19th century, as a sort vertical urban sustainable development approach trying to minimize environmental footprint impact. Although, debates regarding HRBs' pros and cons, this era has witnessed huge boost HRB all over world. HRBs have transformed into an ego situation where countries not only developed ones but also...

While there is growing interest in Real Time Pricing as a competitive tool, its adoption to date has been constrained by wariness on the part of many utilities and many of their customers. That wariness is not misplaced, for Real Time Pricing is not for everyone. In order for both utilities and their customers to benefit, the pricing system must be properly tailored for, and offered to, the app...

In Durán, Ecuador, newly urbanized areas provide distinct housing qualities (HQs) that may impact Aedes aegypti behavior. We defined HQ by the type of construction material of the house. Moreover, there are numerous abandoned vegetated lots (VL) providing mosquito-vectors with resting and sugar-feeding habitats. We aim to estimate proportions of Ae. aegypti female mosquitoes that sugar-feed in ...