background portugal has a strong tradition of conventional western healthcare. so it provides a natural case study for the relationship between complementary/alternative medicine (cam) and western medicine (wm). this work aims to test the relationship between cam and wm users in the diagnosis and treatment stages and to estimate the determinants of cam choice.   methods the forth portuguese nat...

abstract   background: the aim of study was to compare the effect of kangaroo mother care (kmc) and conventional methods of care (cmc) in low birth weight babies less than 2000 grams.   method: one hundred babies with birth weight less than 2000 grams and without clinical problem were randomized in two groups the intervention group (n=50) who received kangaroo mother care and the control group ...

aluminium matrix composites (amcs) materials are continuously displacing traditional engineering materials because of their advantages of high stiffness and strength over homogeneous material formulations. properties of amcs can be tailored to the demands of different industrial applications by suitable combinations of matrix, reinforcement and processing route. presently, several grades of amc...

more than 12,000 alkaloids are known in plants, mostly used as medicine with a world market value of about 4 billion us$. opium poppy, papaver somniferum, is the most important economic source of morphinane alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, thebaine, narcotine and papaverine that are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry as analgesics, antitussives and anti-spasmodics. with regard to incr...

this paper presents a method for damping of low frequency oscillations (lfo) in a power system. the powersystem contains static synchronous series compensators (sssc) which using a chaotic harmony searchalgorithm (chsa), optimizes the lead-lag damping stabilizer. in fact, the main target of this paper isoptimization of selected gains with the time domain-based objective function, which is solve...

during 2010-2011, real-time pcr procedure was used to detecting fmdv rna on 147 epithelium samples from the field. in this survey, for real-time pcr from 3d gene segment as conserve region selected for tracking all of seven serotypes fmdv. the assay detected the viral rna in all serotypes of fmdv. the rrt-pcr specifically detected fmd virus in sample with greater sensitivity than our convention...

   In the present work, Gadolinium Doped ceria (GDC) based solid electrolyte was successfully synthesized through wet chemical method to operate at intermediate temperature (500–700°C) for SOFCs. DSC study revealed the formation of GDC phase at 900°C during calcination. The crystal structure of GDC was identified as cubic fluorite phase and the crystallite size was found to be around 23 nm....