Results: Less number of infants with growth faltering (p=0.093) and acute gastroenteritis (p=0.135) while more infants crawled, longer period of lactational amenorrhea (p= 0.276) and higher mean maternal weight loss (p=0.152) observed in 6 months EBF group compared to the other two groups. No significant differences in mean serum iron concentration and mean haemoglobin concentration among the t...

In the early days, connecting devices with a computer involved many different connectors and the attachment of the devices had to be done before the host computer was powered on. The universal serial bus (USB) has replaced many of those old-fashioned connectors and provides a unified and universal connector with hot-plug support. The versatility of the USB makes it an indispensable way of conne...

Insulin/Insulin-like growth factors play important roles in promoting proliferation, differentiation, growth and development of organisms. In this article, bioinformatics analysis was performed to locate and identify the Bombyx mori insulin-like peptide (BmILP) gene, which had two introns, three exons, and a predicted signal peptide at the front, and it also determined that BmILP was the same t...

The passive resonator approach to fiber opt sensing has benefitted from recent advances in fiber High performance couplers, spliceless resonators' ic rotation components. , and long coherence length laser diodes have been described. Polarization maintaining components and 1.3 & 1.55 urn wavelength components are being made, and one company is selling high finesse resonators commercially2. This ...

In receiving systems in which the analog signal voltage is sampled and quantized to allow further processing in digital form, the difference between the analog samples and their digital representation gives rise to a component of random quantization noise. The power spectrum of the quantization noise is close to being uniformly level across the receiver passband, even for large variation in the...

Particle tracing is a simple technique used to infer global quantitative information regarding velocity and vorticity fields from flow images. In this paper, recent advances in solving major drawbacks associated with conventional particle tracing are discussed. A quantitative automatic scheme which eliminates the photographic step and is capable of constructing the velocity field directly from ...

The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Exp. Med. Vol. 205 No. 13 3159-3171 www.jem.org/cgi/doi/10.1084/jem.20081298 3159 The regulation of blood vessel size is closely coordinated to changes in blood fl ow. Initial variations in blood fl ow elicit reversible vasomotor responses, whereas sustained alterations in hemodynamic forces result in permanent structural changes aff ecting vessel exte...