BACKGROUND Multiple micronutrients in powder (MNP) are recommended by WHO to prevent anemia in young children. However, evidences for its effectiveness in different populations and improvements in other outcomes (e.g. linear growth and vitamin A deficiency) are scarce. METHODS A multicentre pragmatic controlled trial was carried out in primary health centres. At study baseline, a control grou...

Forensic analysis requires the acquisition and management of many different types of evidence, including individual disk drives, RAID sets, network packets, memory images, and extracted files. Often the same evidence is reviewed by several different tools or examiners in different locations. We propose a backwards-compatible redesign of the Advanced Forensic Formatdan open, extensible file form...

There are significant numbers of mentally ill men and women in jail and the level of their psychopathology is often serious. Once in jail, the psychotic individual is subjected to conditions conducive to further decompensation and higher suicide rates. If this is the case, the duration of confinement--that is, the duration of exposure to this toxic environment--is not trivial. Of further concer...

OBSTETRIC shock is one of the most serious of the accidents associated with childbirth. Puerperal sepsis is the only condition responsible for a larger proportion of maternal deaths. Out of 141 consecutive deaths occurring in the Belfast Maternity Hospital, and the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, during the ten years, 1927-36, twenty-three, i.e., 16.3 per cent., were due to obstetric shock. ...

Nowadays, the importance of the vehicles and its dramatic effects on human life is no secret. The use of trailers with multiple axels for transporting bulky and heavy equipment is essential. Increase in trailers axles which results increment of wheels, needs considerations in order to increase in transporting speed, maneuverability, safety, better control and path following accurately.  Therefo...

This thesis primarily describes performance and decision heuristics of human operators intervention with an autonomous formation flight (AFF) system during monitoring of a station-keeping display. Due to mental and physical workloads, automation technologies have been applied to formation flight for precise station-keeping and resultant fuel reduction, shifting control authority from humans to ...

Bisphosphonates, the most commonly used osteoporosis treatment, have been effective in preventing osteoporotic fractures by suppressing bone turnover. The recent reports of atypical femoral fracture and its possible association with prolonged bisphosphonate use brought into attention the possibility of adverse mechanical modifications in bone due to extensive suppression of bone turnover [1, 2]...