Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was added to standard antenatal care (ANC) in 2000 for Colombians enrolled in the two national health insurance schemes, the 'subsidized regime' (covering poor citizens) and the 'contributory regime' (covering salaried citizens with incomes above the poverty threshold), which jointly covered 80% of the total Colombian population as of 2007. This...

This paper gives a variety of theoretical results associated with the Adaptive Neural Control (ANC) architecture and its application to the control of flexible structures. ANC is a new parallel processing, decentralized architecture for identification and adaptive control that has been under development by the author and associates over the past five years. The ANC architecture consists of a hi...

The fundamental theories and methods of active noise control (ANC) have become well established over the last 30 years, so fewer academic research projects on ANC are funded nowadays. However, applications of the technology are entering a new golden era with greater numbers of companies investigating the applications of noise control in their products. One good example is the successful applica...

We examined the changes of spine density in Golgi preparations of two different areas of the forebrain of the zebra finch, the ANC (Archi-Neostriatum caudale) and MNH (medial Neo-Hyperstriatum) during development, after transferring male birds from isolation to a social condition (exposure to a female for 1 week), and after a second isolation period. MNH and ANC are two of four brain regions wh...

Introduction. Male involvement in antenatal care (ANC) has been associated with improved prevention of mother-to-child transmission outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa; yet it remains uncommon. We assess acceptability of male involvement from the male and female perspectives and potential incentives for men to attend ANC. Methods. Adult pregnant women and men attending primary healthcare at Witkoppe...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is higher and skilled attendance at delivery is lower in the slums of Nairobi (Kenya) compared to Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Lower numbers of public health facilities, greater distance to facilities, and higher costs of maternal health services in Nairobi could explain these differences. OBJECTIVE By comparing the use of maternal health care services among women...

Objective: To determine and verify the acid neutralization capacity (ANC) of antacid preparations sold across various retail pharmacies in UAE. Another important objective is to quantify the amount of sodium, calorific content, overall monthly consumption and cost of therapy with respect to its composition and manufacturer. Materials and Methods: In Vitro analysis was carried out on various ant...

INTRODUCTION The objectives of the study were to evaluate the health system effectiveness of ANC for the delivery of a dose of IPTp and an ITN to women attending ANC during eligible gestation, and to identify the predictors of systems effectiveness. METHODS A cross sectional study was undertaken in 10 health facilities including structured non-participant observations of the ANC process for 7...

A modeling study was conducted to evaluate the acid-base chemistry of streams within Shenandoah National Park, Virginia and to project future responses to sulfur (S) and nitrogen (N) atmospheric emissions controls. Many of the major stream systems in the park have acid neutralizing capacity (ANC) less than 20 microeq/L, levels at which chronic and/or episodic adverse impacts on native brook tro...

Abstract—Previous studies on analog network-coded two-way relay (ANC-TWR) assumed the same modulation and coding both for the mobile terminal (MT)-relay station (RS) link and the base station (BS)-RS link. In this paper, we propose an adaptive ANC-TWR, where adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) is employed in order to maximize the uplink (MT-RS-BS) and downlink (BS-RS-MT) throughputs. The singl...