5.9 million children under age five died in 2015, 16 000 every day. Globally, under-five mortality rate has decreased by 53%, from an estimated rate of 91 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 43 deaths per 1000 live births in 2015. The average annual rate of reduction in under-five mortality has accelerated from 1.8%  a year over the period 1990–2000 to 3.9%  for 2000–2015 , but remains insuf...

Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs) undergo changes in their pulse properties and persistent emission during episodes of intense burst activity. SGR 1900+14 has undergone large flux increases following recent burst activity. Both SGR 1900+14 and SGR 1806−20 have shown significant changes in their pulse profile and spindown rates during the last several years. The pulse profile changes are linked with t...

We show that the giant flares of soft gamma-ray repeaters ( ergs) can push the inner regions of a fall44 E ∼ 10 back disk out to larger radii by radiation pressure, while matter remains bound to the system for plausible parameters. The subsequent relaxation of this pushed-back matter can account for the observed enhanced X-ray emission after the August 27 giant flare of SGR 1900 14. Based on th...

A. R. Samana, C. A. Barbero, S. B. Duarte, A. J. Dimarco and F. Krmpotić Department of Physics Texas A&M University-Commerce, P.O.Box 3011 , Commerce, Texas, USA Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas F́ısicas, Rua Dr. Xavier Sigaud 150, CEP 22290-180, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil Instituto de F́ısica La Plata, CONICET, 1900 La Plata, Argentina Departamento de F́ısica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universid...

(1) Cátedra de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Calle 60 y 120, La Plata (1900), Argentina. (2) Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Calle 526 e/10 y 11, La Plata (1900) Argentina. (3) Instituto de Bioestadística, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Adventista del Plata, Calle 25 de Mayo ...

M. Casas, P. W. Lamberti , A. Plastino , and A. R. Plastino 4, 5 1 Department de Fisica and IMEDEA, Universitat de les Illes Balears 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2 Facultad de Matemática, Astronomı́a y F́ısica Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Ciudad Universitaria 5000 Córdoba, Argentina 3 Universidad Nacional d e La Plata, C.C. 727, 1900 La Plata, Argentina 4 Argentine National Research Center (...

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Antonio Delgado, 3 Carlos A. Garćıa Canal, 5 and Sergio J. Sciutto 5 Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA CERN, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA Departamento de F́ısica Universidad Nacional de La Plata, C.C.67, La Plata (1900),...

Mortality Patterns and Publie Health in Hamilton, Canada, 1900-14