In a study published elsewhere (Wood and Elwood, 1966) the associations between the severity of various symptoms and haemoglobin levels in subjects who took part in a community survey is described. The present paper describes a double-blind randomized clinical trial of the effects on these symptoms of oral iron therapy in a sample of the women seen during the community survey. In addition some ...

Research leads to the development of science and technology and hence it leads to the betterment of humankind also. Journals and Conferences provide a platform to receive large number of research papers for publications and presentations before the expert and peer-level scientific community. In order to assure quality of such papers, they are also sent to reviewers for their comments. In order ...

Visual disability, particularly in children, can lead to a high mortality, economic loss and burden to the individual, family, community and the nation as a whole (Holden 2007; Roberts, Hiratsuka et al. 2010). Approximately 30,240 children are estimated to be blind in Nepal (Apex Body for Eye Health, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal, 2011). One of the reasons of this high number might b...

This thesis documents the adaptation and extension of an existing computational construction kit, and its use by a community of learners previously unaddressed blind and visually impaired children. This community has an intimate relationship with the digital and assistive technologies that they rely on for carrying out their everyday tasks, but have no tools for designing and creating their own...

Molecular microbial community analyses provide information on thousands of microorganisms simultaneously, and integrate biotic and abiotic perturbations caused by fecal contamination entering water bodies. A few studies have explored community methods as emerging approaches for microbial source tracking (MST), however, an evaluation of the current state of this approach is lacking. Here, we uti...

in this research work, the frequency domain (fd) of surface geochemical data was analyzed to decompose the complex geochemical patterns related to different depths of the mineral deposit. in order to predict the variation in mineralization in the depth and identify the deep geochemical anomalies and blind mineralization using the surface geochemical data for the dalli cu-au porphyry deposit, a ...

AIM To study the survival and visual outcome of penetrating keratoplasty in an African setting. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 216 corneal grafts, performed on 203 eyes of 186 patients, at Kikuyu Hospital, Kenya over a 5 year period. RESULTS Half of the transplants were carried out for keratoconus with only 5% of the grafts being undertaken for corneal scarring caused by trachoma or me...

abstract background and aim: visual impairment affects people's quality of life. since the effect of rehabilitation services is measured by improving in quality of life, this study was performed to evaluate the effect of rehabilitation services on quality of life in the blind. materials and methods: 121 blind and low vision people who covered by zahedan welfare organization were studied by...

objective: congenital fusion of jaws is a rare disorder which is observed in infants and cab ne syndromic and non-syndromic. limited mouth opening in patients can affect the child growth and cause difficulties in feeding, swallowing and breathing.   case: a in this study, a female infant from afghanistan, settled in qom referred to alzahra maternity with upper and lower fusion jaws is reported....