Background: Fenugreek and Fennel seed has galactogogues properties due to phytoestrogen structure and can increase the volume of breast milk. Objective: The aim of this study was to comparison the effect of herbals teas containing Fenugreek seed and Fennel seed on the signs of breast milk sufficiency in girl infants with 0-4 months of age. Methods: This study was a triple blind clinical tria...

If one information service is more informative than the other, then any agent values it more. In fact, the opposite implication (sufficiency) is also true, and this characterization is the celebrated Blackwell’s theorem. We present here a short proof of sufficiency. Actually, we show a stronger result: it is enough to check whether the value of the service is greater than the value of the other...

BACKGROUND Universal postnatal contact services are provided in several Australian states, but their impact on women's postnatal care experience has not been evaluated. Furthermore, there is lack of evidence or consensus about the optimal type and amount of postpartum care after hospital discharge for maternal outcomes. This study aimed to assess the impact of providing Universal Postnatal Cont...

There is no practical external source of tritium for fusion energy development beyond ITER and all subsequent fusion systems have to breed their own tritium. To ensure tritium self-sufficiency, the calculated achievable tritium breeding ratio (TBR) should be equal to or greater than the required TBR. The potential of achieving tritium self-sufficiency depends on many system physics and technolo...

Logarithmic score and information divergence appear in both information theory, statistics, statistical mechanics, and portfolio theory. We demonstrate that all these topics involve some kind of optimization that leads directly to the use of Bregman divergences. If the Bregman divergence also fulfills a sufficiency condition it must be proportional to information divergence. We will demonstrate...

BACKGROUND Most systematic reviews conclude that another clinical trial is needed. Measures of sufficiency and stability may indicate whether this is true. OBJECTIVES To show how evidence accumulated on centre-based versus home-based cardiac rehabilitation, including estimates of sufficiency and stability METHODS Systematic reviews of clinical trials of home versus centre-based cardiac reha...

It was the Fall of 1978. I had just finished my masters in statistics and started out as a PhD student in the stat-math division at the ISI in Calcutta. Teachers of the calibre of B.V. Rao and Ashok Maitra had taught me an enormous amount of mathematics and probability theory. But deep inside me I was curious to learn much more of statistical theory. Unfortunately, Basu had already left and mov...

Safety cases offer a means for communicating information about the system safety among the system stakeholders. Recently, the requirement for a safety case has been considered by regulators for safety-critical systems. Adopting safety cases is necessarily dependent on the value added for regulatory authorities. In this work, we outline a structured approach for assessing the level of sufficienc...

In recent time there has been much progress made on the problem of determining sufficiency conditions for a positive rational termed series to converge to either an irrational or transcendental number (see [1], [4], [6] and the references cited therein). Surprisingly, in comparison, very little attention has been paid to finding such sufficiency conditions in the case of infinite products. One ...

In this paper we derive a sufficiency theorem of an unconstrained fixed-endpoint problem of Lagrange which provides sufficient conditions for processes which do not satisfy the standard assumption of nonsingularity, that is, the new sufficiency theorem does not impose the strengthened condition of Legendre. The proof of the sufficiency result is direct in nature since the former uses explicitly...