BACKGROUND Malaria infection in pregnancy is a major risk factor for maternal and child death, and substantially increases the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and low birthweight. The aim of this study therefore is to assess the prevalence and determinants of Intermittent preventive treatment of Malaria [IPTp] utilization by pregnant women in a rural town in Western Nigeria. METHODS This stud...

Relational self, along with individual and collective selves, is a fundamental aspect that makes up self-concept. Proposing its two aspects: self-focused relational self (i.e., perceiving the self as the object of other people's referential awareness or intentionality) and other-focused relational self (i.e., perceiving the self as being attuned and empathetically connected to close others), th...

This paper describes a method of assessing the value of controllable devices such as Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) in a liberalized electricity market. A sophisticated algorithm using ac optimal power flow (OPF) is often unnecessarily detailed for the purpose of valuating such projects. Input parameters such as expected future generation mix is hard to guess and error prone. Therefor...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care professionals on the early detection of breast cancer. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Jeddah and Abha regions of Saudi Arabia from May to November 2009. A detailed questionnaire was distributed to 500 doctors from different hospitals. The questionnaire contained items on the practice of clinical br...

BACKGROUND Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes traditionally uses mean difference (MD) or standardized mean difference (SMD; mean difference in pooled standard deviation (SD) units). We recently used an alternative ratio of mean values (RoM) method, calculating RoM for each study and estimating its variance by the delta method. SMD and RoM allow pooling of outcomes expressed in different units...

July 2017 IZA DP No. 10905 Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment* Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioralinduced participation. Using data on Connecticut’s Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of behavioral-i...

Developing countries have a hard time getting their health situation improved. Constant reforms in health programs, international cooperation in the sector from USAID and other partners, or World Health Organization programs did not make health improve as much as expected. Although statistics in health show improvement in the last ten years, there are a large number of people who do not have ac...

A novel adaptive step size control algorithm is proposed, in which the step size is approximated to the theoretically optimum value via leaky accumulators, realizing quasioprimal control. The algorithm is applicable to most of the known tap weight adaptation algorithms. Analysis yields a set of difference equations for theoretically calculating expected filter convergence, and derives residual ...

this paper aims to discuss the possibility of juxtaposition of critical thinking and religious experience, as an approach for religious education, and introduce its educational outcomes. a deductive research method has been used to theoretically discuss the possibility of combination of these two concepts in religious education and its results. religious education of iranian educational system ...

This study investigated whether there is a discrepancy pertaining to trait and state academic emotions and whether self-concept of ability moderates this discrepancy. A total of 225 secondary school students from two different countries enrolled in grades 8 and 11 (German sample; n = 94) and grade 9 (Swiss sample; n = 131) participated. Students' trait academic emotions of enjoyment, pride, ang...