BACKGROUND To prevent pre-eclampsia in populations with insufficient dietary calcium (Ca) intake, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends routine Ca supplementation during antenatal care (ANC). WHO guidelines suggest a complex dosing regimen, requiring as many as 5 pill-taking events per day when combined with iron and folic acid (IFA) supplements. Poor adherence may undermine public hea...

Multivariate statistical techniques such as factor analysis (FA) and cluster analysis (CA) were applied for the evaluation of spatial variations and the interpretation of a large complex water quality data set of Chrompet in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 11 parameters of water samples collected from 16 different sampling stations of city was determined. Factor analysis indicates three factors in pre mon...

Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capricolum (Mcc) is one of the causative agents of contagious agalactia (CA), which is an important disease in sheep and goats in the Mediterranean and Middle East countries. Mycoplasma agalactiae is the classic agent of CA in sheep and goats. Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies Capri (Mmc), Mycoplasma capricolum subspecies capricolum (Mcc), and Mycoplasma putrefacie...

Anthropogenic and demographic processes cause worldwide air problems, giving rise to focus on exhaust air purification to counteract these effects. Due to the large number of substances found in exhaust air and the various operational parameters needed, a huge amount of often high dimensional data has to be analyzed. The ultimate goal is to finally reduce data complexity in terms of information...

The proximity of the calcium/strontium binding site of the oxygen evolving complex (OEC) of photosystem II (PSII) to the paramagnetic Mn cluster is explored with (87)Sr three-pulse electron spin-echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy. CW-EPR spectra of Sr(2+)-substituted Ca(2+)-depleted PSII membranes show the modified g = 2 multiline EPR signal as previously reported. We performed three...

Reaction between [Fe2(μ-S2)(CO)6] and [Ca(thf)4(dpp-BIAN)] [dpp-BIAN = 1,2-bis-(2,6-diisopropyl-phenyl-imino)-acenaphthene and thf = tetra-hydro-furan] proceeds as a redox process via a two-electron reduction of [Fe2(μ-S2)(CO)6] and a two-electron oxidation of (dpp-BIAN)(2-), resulting in the formation of the title heterometallic trinuclear cluster, [CaFe2(μ3-S)2(C4H8O)4(CO)6], and neutral dpp-...

This paper proposes a centralized algorithm for cluster-head-selection in a mobile wireless sensor network. Before execution of algorithm in each round, Base station runs centralized localization algorithm whereby sensors update their locations to base station and accordingly Base station performs dynamic clustering. Afterwards Base station runs CA-MWSN for cluster-head-selection. The proposed ...

the present study has been conducted to determine the surface water quality of urban area in savar, dhaka, bangladesh by determining some water quality parameters (transparency, temperature, ph, ec, eh, do, tss, tds, ts, bod5, cod, toc, cl-, br-, so4-2, no3-, no2-, po4-3, tp, hco3- and total alkalinity) as well as the status of phytoplankton’s community in the water from two lakes (tiger lake a...