Despite recent progress, Sierra Leone’s lifetime risk of maternal death remains high (1 in 21), as does neonatal mortality (35 per 1000 live births). We present findings on maternal and neonatal care practices from a mixed methods study conducted in four districts during July–August 2012. We conducted a household cluster survey with data on maternal and newborn care practices collected from wom...

Racket’s syntax parameters support the hygienic implementation of syntactic forms that would otherwise introduce implicit identifiers unhygienically.

It is well known that every uniquely clean ring is strongly clean. In this paper, we investigate the question of when this result holds element-wise. We first construct an example showing that uniquely clean elements need not be strongly clean. However, in case every corner ring is clean the uniquely clean elements are strongly clean. Further, we classify the set of uniquely clean elements for ...

Major advances have been made in pharmacological, rehabilitative, and surgical procedures related to spinal cord injury. However, these injuries still present a host of complex medical and psychosocial challenges for patients and medical practitioners. Spinal cord injuries often occur during the most active and productive time of a person's life and generally result in devastating loss of funct...

E very year in the United States spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur in approximately 12000 individuals, resulting in chronic, debilitating functional deficits in most of these patients. Owing to the extremely high costs associated with hospitalization, subsequent rehabilitation, and outpatient care, it is becoming evident that effective treatments for SCI could drastically reduce health care cos...

We show that an ambiguity in setting the primitives of the matching with contracts model by Hatfield and Milgrom (2005) has serious implications for the model. Of the two ways to clear the ambiguity, the first (and what we consider more “clean”) remedy renders several of the results of the paper invalid in the absence of an additional irrelevance of removed contracts condition implicitly assume...

1. Recognize the signs and symptoms of ventricular shunt failure (increased intracranial pressure). 2. Identify the signs and symptoms of tethered spinal cord. 3. List signs and symptoms of Chiari II malformation. 4. Apply the three-level classification system to patients who have spinal cord abnormalities. 5. Use system-based recommendations for ongoing surveillance and care of patients who ha...

Materials & Methods: A retrospective review of all girls that underwent CPRE from December 1998 through September 2016 from a single institution was performed. Operative age and weight, type of pelvic immobilization, use of pelvic osteotomies, imaging, clinical course, and need for additional surgical procedures were recorded. Patients were deemed in retention if their clinical course was consi...

This article has been subjected to double blind peer review The first two articles in this series described the anatomy and physiology of the vertebral column and spinal cord, and examined the aetiology and pathophysiology of spinal cord injuries (Sheerin 2004, 2005). These provide a basis for understanding the presentation and management of spinal cord injuries. It is difficult to be prescript...

The aim of this study is to compare the use of Beniktol spray and alcohol swab for cord care in our unit. Over a 6-month period (November 2001 to April 2002), all infants whose parents signed the consent form, were enrolled in the study. The nurse randomly used either Beniktol spray or alcohol swab for the baby’s cord care. It was a prospective study designed to compare cord separation time, an...