BACKGROUND Supplementary feeding programs (SFPs) are intended to mitigate the deterioration of nutritional status and the increase in mortality among malnourished children. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effect of an SFP on malnourished children in Guinea-Bissau who were returning to their homes after having been displaced within the country because of war in 1998-1999. DESIGN The effect of ...

To establish a high-efficiency gamma interferon-specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent spot assay (IFN-γ ELISPOT assay) for detection of tuberculosis (TB), peptides (E6, E7, and C14) and peptide mixtures (E6 plus E7 and E6 plus E7 plus C14) were used to monitor peripheral blood (PBL) samples from patients with pulmonary TB (PTB), as well as control samples. The positive detection rates of the fiv...

Abstract Iron deficiency is the most common mammalian nutritional during neonatal period. However, among species iron anemia (IDA), severe consequence of scarcity, occurs regularly in pigs. Although intramuscular supplementation piglets with high amounts dextran (FeDex) largely considered an appropriate preventive therapy for IDA prophylaxis, increasing evidence shows that it negatively affects...

A key issue in the cultural adaptation of interventions concerns the tension between modifying programmes to meet the needs of new populations and implementation settings, and the importance of retaining fidelity to the original intervention design. 1 Skärstrand et al.'s recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Swedish adaptation of Strengthening Families Programme (SFP) 10-14—a family-b...

Abstract Substance-free phonology (SFP) is based on the hypothesis that phonological computation makes no reference to phonetic substance, and features are treated as arbitrary symbols for purposes of computation. However, phonologists within SFP tradition disagree about whether content innate or learned (“emergent”), if learned, acquisition process patterning alone refers substance. In present...

Research suggests that mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) enhances commitment and goal attainment. However, most studies have used limited comparison conditions. The present study compared MCII against two other potentially effective approaches: autonomous planning (AP), solution-focused (SFP). It was thought condition would an indirect effect on progress by affecting comm...

The convex feasibility problem (CFP) is to find a member of the intersection of finitely many closed convex sets in Euclidean space. When the intersection is empty, one can minimize a proximity function to obtain an approximate solution to the problem. The split feasibility problem (SFP) and the split equality problem (SEP) are generalizations of the CFP. The approximate SFP (ASFP) and approxim...

Rice lodging identification relies on manual in situ assessment and often leads to a compensation dispute in agricultural disaster assessment. Therefore, this study proposes a comprehensive and efficient classification technique for agricultural lands that entails using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery. In addition to spectral information, digital surface model (DSM) and texture informatio...

OBJECTIVES to determine the prevalence of three independent, disability-free and operationally defined frailty phenotypes and the associated risk of mortality in a community-dwelling older people cohort over 74 years of age. METHODS observational, prospective and population-based design. Bio-psycho-social variables were assessed using a range of standardised instruments. The physical frailty ...