fant health outcomes, as well as reduced educational and employment opportunities for young mothers.2 Teenage pregnancy, early childbearing and adverse infant health outcomes are most likely to occur among disadvantaged women with restricted access to health services, but the social and economic pathways to these outcomes are not well understood.3 A great deal of attention has been focused on t...

Assessment of secondary particles in breast proton therapy by Monte Carlo simulation code using MCNPX

Commercially there is a growing interest in applications of neutrons. Currently the majority of neutron sources are based at research institutions from either reactors or spallation sources. Smaller portable sources contain either fissile isotope or sealed fusors are available, although they either use or produce tritium, or other long lived decay products. As an alternative to the large facili...

Dietary restriction (DR) has been shown to extend both median and maximum lifespan in a range of animals, although recent findings suggest that these effects are not universally enjoyed across all animals. In particular, the lifespan effect following DR in mice is highly strain-specific and there is little current evidence that DR induces a positive effect on all-cause mortality in non-human pr...

We investigate the thickness and seismic velocity structure of the Rukwa Rift crust by modeling seismograms from the 1994 Mw 5.9 Rukwa earthquake and teleseismic receiver functions recorded on a broadband seismic station at the southeastern end of the rift. Two methods have been used to model receiver functions, Hstacking and waveform inversion, yielding Moho depth estimates of 34 ± 2 km (Hstac...