introduction: the acquisition of speech and language constitutes a dynamic part of two-year-old children’s growth. expressive lexicon is a key indicator of language ability in these children. premature birth, birth before gestational week 37, is one of the most common risk factors associated with learning skill development. a review of literature suggests inconsistent results on the relationshi...

The coast of Bangladesh has a specialty in terms of high bending and many off- shore islands. Incorporation of the coastline and island boundaries properly in the numerical scheme is essential for accurate estimation of water levels due to surge. For that purpose a numerical scheme consisting of very fine mesh is required along the coastal belt, whereas this is unnecessary away from the coast. In...

MOTIVATION: It would be useful to be able to retrieve a ranked publication list relevant to topics of interest. METHODOLOGY: This novel approach uses semantics built into the Medical SubHeading (MeSH) hierarchy. A training set of papers is constructed, each annotated with MeSH terms of interest (e.g. Stem Cell or some child in its subtree). Frequencies of nouns are computed, and ratios calculat...

BACKGROUND Despite evidence supporting Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) as a strategy to improve pediatric care in countries with high child mortality, its implementation faces challenges related to lack of or poor post-didactic training supervision and gaps in necessary supporting systems. These constraints lead to health care workers' inability to consistently translate IMCI ...

in a survey of the population of behbahan city, carried out in years 1990-91, the mean age was approximated up to 15.2 and 17.5 in the villages and the city, respectively. furthermore, about 27.4% and 27.9% of the corresponding populations were under 5 years of age. the birth rate in the urban and rural areas was about 31.2 and 33.3 per thousand live births. mortality rate related to the immatu...

An adaptive mesh refmement (AMR) version of CTH is currently under development. This project is being conducted jointly by researchers at the University of Texas and at Sandia National Laboratories. The AMR version of CTH represents a significant milestone in the ten-year development of this legacy code. CTH is a multi-material wave propagation code used by many analysts in the DoD user communi...

Variational mesh refinement is a crucial step in multiview 3D reconstruction. Existing algorithms either focus on recovering details or suppressing noise. Approaches with consideration of both are lacking. To address this limitation, we proposed new variational method named total differential (TDR), which mainly included two improvements. First, the traditional partial-differential photo-consis...