AbstractWasting is a form of acute malnutrition characterized by significant and rapid weight loss resulting from inadequate food intake infectious diseases. This study was to investigate the factors associated with wasting in children aged 6–23 months dominant factor among these. The followed cross-sectional design. A total sample 261 selected using multistage random sampling 13 integrated hea...

The identiication of sensitizable paths and the determination of path delays play key roles in many delay fault testing schemes. In this paper we examine a range of gate delay models with respect to their impact on identifying both sensitizable paths and maximum circuit delays in com-binational logic circuits. We provide recommendations on the \minimum acceptable" model for identifying critical...

While it is imperative that all time constraints are met in hard real-time systems, firm or soft real-time systems do not have as stringent timeliness requirements, allowing for some degree of tardiness (soft) or miss ratio (firm). A significant body of research within the soft and firm real-time area has focused on minimizing tardiness and/or miss ratio, but without quantifying acceptable leve...

This paper addresses the problem of determining a minimum-fuel maneuver sequence to reconfigure a tetrahedral formation. The objective of this work is to develop a single orbit, minimum-fuel reconfiguration strategy such that, after reconfiguration, the four spacecraft are able to return to an acceptable tetrahe-dral configuration in a region of interest near apogee for a period of three weeks ...

The relative differentiation architecture does not require per-flow state at the network core or edges, nor admission control, but it can only provide higher classes with better service than lower classes. A central premise in this context is that users with absolute QoS requirements should dynamically search for an appropriate class. We investigate this Dynamic Class Selection (DCS) framework,...

In this paper a novel handoff decision algorithm, namely multicriteria handoff decision algorithm (MDA), for the virtual cell layout based mobile subsystem of the next generation tactical communications systems is introduced. In this algorithm, handoff decision metrics are received signal strength measurements from the access points, soft capacities of the access points, and relative directions...