Background & aim: Early breastfeeding initiation (EBFI) defined as giving breast milk within the first hours following birth, which is recommended as a simple strategy for the enhancement of neonatal health and survival. This descriptive qualitative study was conducted to explore the practices, perceptions and beliefs of renowned traditional birth attendants (TBA) regarding EBFI in Chipinge rur...

A Wald-like equation is proved for the entropy of a ran-db@y, stopped sequence of independent identically distributed discrete random variables XI, X2,. with a nonanticipating stopping time N.

BACKGROUND Although TGF-ß and the transcription factor Egr-1 play an important role in both kidney fibrosis and in response to acute changes of renal medullary osmolarity, their role under sustained hypo- or hyperosmolar conditions has not been elucidated. We investigated the effects of chronic hypertonicity and hypotonicity on the renal medullary TGF-ß and Egr-1 expression. METHODS Male adul...

cell free dna (cfdna) is a genetic biomarker that is present in serum or plasma in high concentration in many types of cancer. identification of circu-lating cancer related dna molecules in serum or plasma is a non-invasive tool for early diagnosis and prognosis in many cancer patients. for this review, study selection and data extraction were performed by the authors. detection of point mutati...

introduction : although oral cancer is amenable for early detection, it often presents as advanced disease in many of patients. long-lasting ulcer or mucosal discoloration has been described as the key to an early diagnosis; however other symptoms may also exist. the present study aims to describe the frequency of the early symptoms in oral cancer patients, with a special focus on pain. materia...

results there were no significant differences in baseline characteristics between two groups except serum ast level. complete evr rate at week 12 in the vitamin d group was significantly higher than the controls (100% vs 84.4%; p = 0.023) whereas this figure was not significant when genotypes 1 and 4 or 2 and 3 in the test group were compared to those of the control (100% vs 86.7%; p = 0.19 and...

performance, digestibility of nutrients, microbial nitrogen flow (mnf) and nitrogen efficiency (ne) inearly lactating holstein cows were investigated by diet supplementation with sodium caseinate (cn).multiparous lactating holstein cows (n = 15) with an average body weight of 638 kg and 21 days in milkwere assigned to a completely randomized design (five cows per treatment) and fed a basal diet...

It is shown that, in order that the multiplicativity rule W b aW c b = W c a , which essentially characterises Weyl processes, continue to hold when the sure times a < b < c are replaced by stop times, it is sufficient to use left stopping at the lower limit a and right stopping at the upper limit b in W b a . . Dedicated to Zhiyuan Huang on his 75th birthday. MSC Classification 81S25.

Boosting is used to determine the order in which classifiers are aggregated in a bagging ensemble. Early stopping in the aggregation of the classifiers in the ordered bagging ensemble allows the identification of subensembles that require less memory for storage, have a faster classification speed and can perform better than the original bagging ensemble. Furthermore, ensemble pruning does not ...

Recent results from the H1 experiment [1] has confirmed the existence of a substantial baryon asymmetry of the proton sea at small x with magnitude predicted in [2]. This is a strong support for the idea [3] that baryon number can be transferred by gluons through a large rapidity interval without attenuation. In this paper we calculate the dependence of baryon asymmetry on associated multiplici...