in chemical and biological systems, has increasingly been receiving attention in clinical and nutritional applications in human health. Therefore, attempts have been made to develop an efficient and stereocontrolled synthesis of the natural form of a-Tocopherol. In terms of synthetic strategy, we considered the final carbon–carbon bond formation stage of our approach as involving a Wittig coupl...

Efficacy trials of antihelminthic therapies conducted in Africa have reported improvements in children's growth, but nutritional evaluations of large-scale deworming programs are lacking. We evaluated the first-year effect on growth of a school-based deworming program in Zanzibar, where growth retardation occurs in school children. Children in four primary schools were given thrice-yearly meben...

BACKGROUND The incidence of anal cancer is high in HIV-positive MSM. We modeled the impact of screening strategies and combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) coverage on anal cancer incidence in Switzerland. METHODS Individual-based, dynamic simulation model parameterized with Swiss HIV Cohort Study and literature data. We assumed all men to be human papillomavirus infected. CD4 cell count...

Soybean yield largely varies spatially and yearly in farmer fields. Appropriate growth diagnosis is recommended to stabilize the yield. Leaf area index (LAI) a representative diagnostic item, but an evaluation method of LAI dynamics with has not been established. In this study, we utilized function consisting exponential power math function. Parameters were derived from be analyzed variability....

The performance of the photovoltaic power plant Sourdun in France is studied for a period seven years using IEC 61724 standard. 4.5 MWp installation located warm temperate climate area and includes polycrystalline panels. analysis collected data from monitoring system reveals an average degradation rate 0.209%/year. found agreement with other values obtained different plants same method having ...

Large gains in the reduction of malaria mortality in the early 20th century were lost in subsequent decades. Malaria now kills 2-3 million people yearly. Implementation of malaria control technologies such as insecticide-treated bednets and chemotherapy could reduce mortality substantially, but an effective malaria vaccine is also needed. Advances in vaccine technology and immunology are being ...

A method is proposed to transform the red and near infrared data into a soil index in order to map soil features. The index maximises soil variation and helps improve soil feature mapping while it suppresses spectral response from vegetation cover. Geo-statistical analysis of fi eld data, on the other hand, helps understand spatial dependency pattern and map it, which may not be directly visibl...

The DAR was established in 1972 for the purpose of collecting data on major upper and lower extremity amputations as well as details on corresponding prosthetic fitting in Denmark. During phase 1 (1972-1980) voluntary reports were submitted by surgical departments and prosthetic manufacturers, totalling about 5000. During phase 2 (1978-1984) data on all amputations in Denmark were supplied on a...