OBJECTIVE Worldwide attention over iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in pregnancy has shifted recently from providing supplements during pregnancy to attempting to ensure that women, especially adolescents, have adequate iron stores prior to conception. We sought to determine whether adolescent and/or adult women still need supplements during pregnancy to avoid IDA, even if iron stores are adequate,...

eart pressure problems are encountered in retaining walls, bulkheads, sheeting and bracing in cuts,culverts, tunnels, and cofferdams. in many cases, the lateral pressure is determined by use of classical earth pressure theories, such as coulomb's, where the equilibrium conditions of a failure wedge of soil is considered. excessive dynamic lateral earth pressure on retaining structures resu...

Passivity{based control (PBC) is a well{established structure{preserving design methodology which has shown to be very powerful to design robust controllers for physical systems described by Euler{Lagrange equations of motion. For regulation problems of mechanical systems it provides a natural procedure to \shape" the potential energy yielding controllers with a clear physical interpretation. I...

Over the past fteen years a variety of interactive IDA systems have been developed to support strategic reasoning for data analysis. We present an AI framework, hierarchical task network planning, that provides a unifying view of these e orts. We describe a taxonomy of strategic approaches to IDA, based on the planning framework, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each app...

BACKGROUND A maximum likelihood method of mixed distribution analysis (MDA) is presented as a method to estimate the prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in Costa Rican infants 12-23 months old. MDA characterizes the parameters of the admixed distributions of iron deficient anaemics and non-iron-deficient-anaemics (NA) from the frequency distribution of haemoglobin concentration of the t...

This paper presents a parallel implementation of the Iterative-Deepening A* algorithm on a parallel distributed memory machine. Two kinds of dynamic load balancing strategies have been studied to overcome the irregular tree search problem. To study the eeectiveness of the algorithm, it has been tested to solve a NP-complete problem: the fteen puzzle. Our experimental results on a cluster of 16 ...

N -tert -butyliminodiacetic acid (H2TEBIDA, compound 1) has been prepared and characterised by thermogravimetric analysis, FT-IR and NMR spectra, and X-ray crystallography (final R1 /0.04). The zwitterion H2TEBIDA 9 is intra -stabilised by a hydrogen bond, and H-bonded chains of zwitterions form supramolecular 2D bilayers with tert -Bu groups towards the external faces. Compounds [Cu(TEBIDA)(H2...

Accurate biometric system for authentication is the need of the hour in today’s scenario. In face spoofing attack a person tries to pretend to be a valid user by using photo or video of an authorized person and gets illegitimate access. Hence it is essential to develop a robust and authentic face spoof detection system in order to protect the privacy about the person. Centre of attraction of th...

In enterprise modelling and information systems development, methods contribute to systematic work processes and to improving the quality of modelling results. Information Demand Analysis (IDA) is a method, which recently was developed for the purpose of optimizing the information flow in the field of information logistics. In order to contribute to improvement of the IDA method, the focus of t...

In this paper we introduce and study a new class of hybrid automata, Independent Dynamics Hybrid Automata (IDA). IDA are an extension of decidable O-minimal automata in which also identity resets are allowed. We define the conditions under which reachability is decidable over IDA. These conditions involve the satisfiability of first-order formulæ that limit the interval of time we need to consi...