Thermal recognition performance thermal infrared imagery, emphasizing the influence of time-lapse between enrolment and testing images. Most previous research in this area, with few exceptions, focused on results obtained when enrolment and testing images were acquired in the same session. Recognition use data obtained by imaging faces in the thermal spectrum are promising in achieving invarian...

School feeding programmes have been touted to improve school enrolment and physical development of children in poorer communities, but discussions on selection criteria linkages local food production very minimal. This article discusses under Ghana’s programme. Findings show that has problematic, motivated largely by political patronage financial gain, not the stated poverty low enrolment. Loca...

Abstract This paper studies the relationship between pre-college skills and gender differences in STEM majors. I use longitudinal data to estimate a generalised Roy model of initial major choices subsequent graduation outcomes. recover students’ latent math ability, non-cognitive self-efficacy. High–math-ability women have lower self-efficacy than men. Mathematical ability shape likelihood enro...

BACKGROUND Treatment with cinacalcet improves the control of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) and the achievement of calcium and phosphorus targets. Most data come from subjects receiving cinacalcet after several years of dialysis treatment. We therefore compared the efficacy of treatment with cinacalcet and low doses of active vitamin D to flexible doses of active vitamin D alone for the m...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of unmodified cows' milk and iron supplemented formula milk on psychomotor development in infants from inner city areas when used as the main milk source. DESIGN Double blind, randomised intervention trial. SETTING Birmingham health centre. SUBJECTS 100 infants, mean age 7.8 months (range 5.7 to 8.6 months), whose mothers had already elected to use unmodifi...

INTRODUCTION Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased greatly in sub-Saharan Africa. However many patients do not enrol timely into HIV care and treatment after HIV diagnosis. We studied enrolment into care and treatment and determinants of non-enrolment in Rwanda. METHODS Data were obtained from routine clinic registers from eight health facilities in Rwanda on patients who were ...

Introduction This paper examines the relationship between national health insurance enrolment and the utilisation of inpatient and outpatient healthcare for older adults in rural areas in Ghana. The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aims to improve affordability and increase the utilisation of healthcare. However, the system has been criticised for not being responsive to the nee...