background it has been shown that trend of achieving to millennium development goal 4 (mdg 4), varies by region and between countries, indicating the possibility of existing different barriers and/or facilitators. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the trend of under five mortality rate (u5mr), and infant mortality rate (imr) and explore the main challenges to reach mdg 4 by 2015. patients...

L month Angola celebrated 25 years of independence, a date which also marks 25 years of war between the Angolan Government and UNITA rebels. According to the Angolan government, which claims to control more than 90% of the territory, the situation is returning to normal. This talk of new-found stability is echoed by increased economic investments from the international community. It is estimate...

Tension gastrothorax in children is a life-threatening condition and presents dramatically with acute and severe respiratory distress. It develops when an intra-thoracic stomach herniated through a diaphragmatic defect is massively distended by trapped air and/or fluid causing mediastinal displacement. Tension gastrothorax is often misinterpreted as tension pneumothorax and managed as such lead...

Introduction Diabetic cardiomyopathy contributes to increased cardiovascular mortality in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients and is characterized by a progressive alteration of left ventricular (LV) function. At a preclinical stage, a decrease in systolic myocardial strain has been suggested in echocardiographic studies. MRI techniques remain the gold standard for quantification of myocardial defo...

Percutaneous nephrostomy is a procedure of establishing a temporary drainage tract of renal pelvi-calyceal system through skin. This study aims to find out complication rate and ultimately the safety of ultrasound guided percutaneous nephrostomy for obstructive uropathy. About 196 patients were included in this study and PCN was done through Seldinger technique under USG guidance. Sepsis occurr...

India is often characterized as an emerging economic super power. The huge demographic dividend, the high quality engineering and management talent, the powerful Indian diaspora and the emerging Indian transnational--kneeling the optimism. In contrast, there is another profile of India which is rather gloomy. This is the country with the largest number of the poor, illiterates and unemployed in...

an enhanced displacement feedback structural control procedure is presented for performance-based design in this paper. at first, a comparative study is implemented assessing three most common active control algorithms including state, acceleration, and displacement feedback controls. the advantage of the displacement feedback algorithm for active control of structures against earthquakes is de...

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is one of the most common causes of acute hepatitis and it is a serious health problem worldwide. HAV infection is a vaccine preventable disease that can produce the lifelong immunity seen in many developed countries with the vaccination schedule administered to children; however this vaccine is not used in developing countries at the present time. Improvements...

Aortic pulse wave velocity is an important diagnostic measure and has been associated with significant cardiovascular mortality. Our hypothesis is that this parameter can be measured using displacement fields obtained by registration of time-series images. This paper presents a method in which a form of the wave equation is used as a regularization term in the registration process. It is demons...

Entomopathogenic fungi are fungi pathogenic to insects and are widely used as biocontrol agents for insect pests. The aim of this research was to study the virulence of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium sp. isolates and to evaluate the efficacy of liquid production of those fungi against Leptocorisa oratorius (rice bug). Twelve isolates of B. bassiana and five isolates of Metarhizium sp. were ...