Human maternal placentophagy is a rare but growing practice in several industrialized countries among postpartum mothers seeking a variety of purported health benefits attributed to the practice. These postpartum mothers typically consume their placenta as a processed, encapsulated supplement. To determine whether free (unconjugated) steroid hormones and melatonin in placenta can survive the en...

Two things struck me as I read "Application-Driven Cross-Layer Optimization for Video Steaming over Wireless Networks": first, the article appears to have put very little thought or effort into identifying a target audience; second, there doesn't really seem to be a major contribution made by the article. Despite these (fairly major) flaws, the paper does serve as a decent starting point for fu...

The effective equations of motion for a point charged particle taking account of radiation reaction are considered in various space-time dimensions. The divergencies steaming from the pointness of the particle are studied and the effective renormalization procedure is proposed encompassing uniformly the cases of all even dimensions. It is shown that in any dimension the classical electrodynamic...

Abstract To fabricate a novel metallosilicate zeolite with tridirectional pore system of 8- and 10-ring channels, direct incorporation B, Al Ga into small medium ITQ-52 the IFW-type topology was carried out using phosphorus-containing organic structure-directing agent (P-OSDA, 1,4-butanediylbis[tris(dimethylamino)]phosphonium hydroxide). The solids were characterized by XRD, FT-IR, 11B, 27Al, 3...

Three household observations and semistructured interviews (n = 14) were conducted with Bhutanese refugee mothers to understand food shopping and dietary practices in this group of the refugee populations. Participants were recruited through a resettlement agency and snowballing techniques. Observation results indicated that steaming and stir-frying were common cooking methods and spices such a...