A study was carried out to determine the problems in IPM practices for rice cultivation faced by the farmers trained in IPM through Farmers’ Field School (FFS) and also to find out the important probable suggestions for overcoming those problems. Data were collected from 158 respondent farmers sampled randomly from 1050 FFS farmers of Godagari Upazila in Rajshahi district. Twenty important prob...

We report a case of del(9)(q22q32) in a severely mentally retarded boy. The most prominent clinical features are short stature, microcephaly, dysmorphic facies, and delayed bone age. Although six cases of this deletion have now been reported, confirmation of a definite syndrome is not yet possible.

BACKGROUND In many OECD countries, the gender differences in physicians' pay favour male doctors. Due to the feminisation of the doctor profession, it is essential to measure this income gap in the French context of Fee-for-service payment (FFS) and then to precisely identify its determinants. The objective of this study is to measure and analyse the 2008 income gap between males and females ge...

OBJECTIVE The AVOID-FFS (Avoidance of Far-Field R-wave Sensing) study aimed to investigate whether an atrial lead with a very short tip-to-ring spacing without optimization of pacemaker settings shows equally low incidence of far-field R-wave sensing (FFS) when compared to a conventional atrial lead in combination with optimization of the programming. METHODS Patients receiving a dual chamber...

OBJECTIVES The study goal was to retrospectively review the treatment results of childhood rhabdomyosarcoma and identify prognostic factors that affect treatment outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records of 190 patients with childhood rhabdomyosarcoma treated between January 1991 and December 1999 were reviewed. The data were analyzed for clinico-epidemiological factors and the impact of pote...

Despite the tremendous need for extension approaches that contribute to poverty reduction in rural sub-Saharan Africa, many extension models have been tried with only limited success. A popular model at the moment is the farmer field schools (FFS) approach, based on adult education principles such as experiential learning. Farmer field schools are intensive, season-long programs where farmers m...