BACKGROUND Anemia affects over 500 million women, and in pregnancy is associated with impaired maternal and infant outcomes. Intermittent antenatal iron supplementation is an attractive alternative to daily dosing; however, the impact of this strategy on infant outcomes remains unclear. We compared the effect of intermittent antenatal iron supplementation with daily iron supplementation on mate...

introduction: having a desirable image in a market can be considered as an asset for an organization. therefore, using proper approaches, managers of such organizations must monitor and manage the image of their organizations in order to achieve their organizational goals and their customer’s satisfaction. as an important sector of every society, managers of hospitals also must try their best t...

Nearly all super-resolution algorithms are based on the fundamental constraints that the super-resolution image should generate the low resolution input images when appropriately warped and down-sampled to model the image formation process. (These reconstruction constraints are normally combined with some form of smoothness prior to regularize their solution.) In the first part of this paper, w...

BACKGROUND In Bihar, India, high maternal anemia prevalence and low iron and folic acid supplement (IFA) receipt and consumption have continued over time despite universal IFA distribution and counseling during pregnancy. PURPOSE To examine individual and facility-level determinants of IFA receipt and consumption among pregnant women in rural Bihar, India. METHODS Using District Level House...

The anticancer prodrug ifosfamide (IFA) contains a chiral phosphorous atom and is administered in the clinic as a racemic mixture of R-IFA and S-IFA. Hepatic cytochrome P450 (P450) enzymes exhibit enantioselective preferences in the metabolism of R-IFA and S-IFA; however, the impact of this selectivity on P450-dependent anticancer activity is not known. Presently, the metabolism and cytotoxicit...

The work presents a methodology contributing to boundary extraction in images of approximate polyhedral objects. We make extensive use of basic principles underlying the process of image formation and thus reduce the role of object-specific knowledge. Simple configurations of line segments are extracted subject to geometricphotometric compatibilities. The perceptual organization into polygonal ...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of maternal anaemia remains unacceptably high in developing countries. At the same time, the percentage of women who consume one or more Fe+folic acid (IFA) tablets during pregnancy remains persistently low. The objective of the present study was to identify where, within antenatal care (ANC) programmes, pregnant women falter in obtaining and consuming an ideal minimum ...

The image formation process involves both geometric and photometric aspects. The definition of optical flow is descriptive and the conformity of optical flow to motion flow is closely related to the algorithm, or the assumption that one takes for optical flow computation. This paper presents an algorithm for optical flow computation based on the mass-conserving assumption by first showing that ...

The work presents a methodology contributing to boundary extraction in images of approximate polyhedral objects. We make extensive use of basic principles underlying the process of image formation and thus reduce the role of object-specific knowledge. Simple configurations of line segments are extracted subject to geometric-photometric compatibilities. The perceptual organization into polygonal...