OBJECTIVES The Positive Deviance/Hearth approach aims to rehabilitate malnourished children using practices from mothers in the community who have well-nourished children despite living in poverty. This study assesses its effectiveness in a range of settings. METHODS Systematic review of peer reviewed intervention trials and grey literature evaluation reports of child malnutrition programs us...

Kobe Steel has developed coal-based direct reduction (DR) technologies, the FASTMET, FASTMELT and ITmk3 processes, which reduce carbon composite agglomerates (pellets or briquettes) on the hearth of a rotary hearth furnace (RHF). This paper outlines the features of each process, status of technical development and commercialization. Also described is the contribution of these technologies to en...

This paper details the steps to design and implement a positive deviance-informed, "Hearth" approach for the nutritional rehabilitation of malnourished children in the district of Leogane, Haiti. Groups of four to five children met daily for two weeks at the home of a local volunteer mother for nutritional and health messages and a well-balanced meal. Health messages and meal components were de...

are killed by putting the pot on a hearth which will raise the inside air temperature to 60?C. (140?F.). At this temperature the inside air is hot; the bottom of the pot is very hot, but the sides are merely warm. By this time all the mosquitoes will be found dead, and the pot is removed from the hearth. The whole operation takes about fifteen minutes using a moderate fire. This method could be...

The technological process for manufacturing seamless steel tubes in the Sisak Rolling Mill includes the heating of the charge for processing in the hearth-rotating furnace. Description of the furnace and its operation can be found in literature 1 . In the process currently applied for producing the tubes with the outer diameter of 168.3–356.6 mm the temperature is between 1280 and 1300 °C 2 . T...

The late Lower Paleolithic archaeofaunas of Qesem Cave in the southern Levant span 400-200 ka and associate with Acheulo-Yabrudian (mainly Amudian) industries. The large mammals are exclusively Eurasian in origin and formed under relatively cool, moist conditions. The zooarchaeological findings testify to large game hunting, hearth-centered carcass processing and meat sharing during the late Lo...

The "traditional" use of the Positive Deviance approach to behavior change involves studying children who thrive despite adversity, identifying uncommon model behaviors among Positive Deviant families, and then designing and implementing an intervention to replicate these behaviors among mothers of malnourished children. This article presents the results of a literature review designed to gathe...