We compared the positive deviance (PD) approach in Save the Children's field guide with a case-control study (CCS) to identify behaviors associated with good nutritional status in Afghan refugee children 6 to 24 months of age in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), Pakistan. The positive deviance inquiry (PDI), utilizing observations and interviews with mothers, fathers, and secondary caregi...

Background Poly cystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is known as a common endocrine disorder in women at reproductive ages and may cause developmental abnormality in oocyte. ERK has found as a regulator protein of Gap junctions (GJ) function and the level of exchanges between two neighbors cells, for example oocyte and surrounding cumulus cells (CCs) in the mammalian ovary. Such exchange is essential...

Components are to becoming a key concept for the next generation of software architectures because of their impact on effective software reuse, real interoperability and integration. The Olan project [18] investigates a “programming in the large” approach that allows the specification of applications as hierarchies of interacting components, glued together through connectors, which are agents s...

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that large cortical cell size (CCS) would improve drought tolerance by reducing root metabolic costs. Maize (Zea mays) lines contrasting in root CCS measured as cross-sectional area were grown under well-watered and water-stressed conditions in greenhouse mesocosms and in the field in the United States and Malawi. CCS varied among genotypes...

The human heart beats 2.5 billion times during a normal lifespan, a feat accomplished by cells of the cardiac conduction system (CCS). The functional components of the CCS can be broadly divided into the impulse-generating nodes and the impulse-propagating His-Purkinje system. Human diseases of the conduction system have been identified that alter impulse generation, impulse propagation, or bot...

BACKGROUND Endocardial mapping before sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT) induction may reduce mapping time during tachycardia and facilitate the ablation of unmappable VT. METHODS AND RESULTS Left ventricular electroanatomic voltage maps obtained during right ventricular apex pacing in 26 patients with chronic myocardial infarction referred for VT ablation were analyzed to i...

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Macromolecular Crystallography (HZB-MX), Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, D-12489 Berlin, Germany, and PO Box 6483, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-0483, USA This issue of Acta Cryst. F features a contribution by Janet Newman and colleagues, Crystallization reports are the backbone of Acta Cryst. F, but do they have any spine? (Newman et al., 2013). In a...

Software is constantly changing and these changes may occur at anytime in the software lifecycle. In order to avoid rework and information loss, among other problems, these changes must be controlled in a proper way. When changes affect reused components, possibly composed by other components, it is important to know who is responsible for implementing them. Some consequences of this problem, n...

This article proposes a scheme for automatic extraction of text from scene images. We proceed by applying statistical features based color image segmentation procedure to the RGB color scene image. The segmentation separates out homogenous (in terms of color and brightness) connected components (CCs) from the image. We assume these CCs include text components. So, prime intention of this articl...