OBJECTIVE To ascertain the degree of agreement between a score for screening and another for diagnosis of motor development in 6-month old infants and to define the most appropriate cutoff point for screening. METHODS A sectional study, enrolling asymptomatic full term newborns with gestational ages from 37 to 41 weeks, who were discharged from the maternity unit 2 days after birth and are re...

OBJECTIVE The Appropriateness of Treating Glaucoma Suspects Study Group proposes to identify which patients suspected of glaucoma are suitable for treatment. Our objective is to analyse the concordance between our clinical decisions and this Study Group. METHODS Retrospective study of 77 patients (39 suspects, 38 ocular hypertensives). Variables such as age, family history, intraocular pressu...

A formic/acetic acid/water system was used in the ratios of 30:60:10, 20:60:20, and 30:50:20 separately for efficient hydrolysis and bioconversion of poplar chips, under the solid/liquid ratio of 1:12(g/ml), at 105 C for 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 min, respectively. The highest yield of 69.89% was at a formic/acetic acid /water ratio of 30:50:20(v/v/v), with solid/liquid in the ratio of 1:12(g/ml) ...

we characterize strictly diagonal type of embeddings offinitary symmetric groups in terms of cardinality and the characteristic. namely, we prove thefollowing.let $kappa$ be an infinite cardinal. if$g=underset{i=1}{stackrel{infty}bigcup} g_i,$ where $ g_i=fsym(kappa n_i)$,$(h=underset{i=1}{stackrel{infty}bigcup}h_i, $ where $ h_i=alt(kappa n_i) ), $ is a group of strictly diagonal type and$xi=(...

extended abstract 1. introduction land use suitability assessment is necessary to prevent and imporove environmental issues. land use planning provides a basis for decision making in spatial planning and land-use management. selecting the appropriate land-use type and pattern according to ecological suitability of lands is the main purpose of watershed management and can lead to the control and...

INTRODUCTION: Validation of food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) is recommended for accurate measurement of habitual food consumption. We assessed the relative validity of a FFQ in patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus. METHODS: Each patient responded to a FFQ and three 24-hour food recalls. Pearson's correlation and weighted Kappa index analyses were p...

In nearly all of the previous multicentre studies evaluating serological tests for Trypanosoma cruzi infection, sera samples from Central or South American countries have been used preferentially. In this work we compared the reliability of the serological tests using Mexican sera samples that were evaluated in four independent laboratories. This included a reference laboratory in Brazil and th...

Wavelet neural networks (WNNs) were used to investigate the influence of operational variables in the soda-ethanol pulping of oil palm fronds (viz. NaOH concentration (10-30%), ethanol concentration (15-75%), cooking temperature (150-190 oC), and time (60-180 min)) on the resulting pulp and paper properties (viz. screened yield, kappa number, tensile index, and tear index). Performance assessme...

For a regular uncountable cardinal $\kappa$, we discuss the order relationship between unbounding and dominating numbers $\mathfrak{b}_{\kappa}$ $\mathfrak{d}_{\kappa}$ on $\kappa$ invariants of higher meager ideal $\mathscr{M}_{\kappa}$. In particular, obtain an almost complete characterization $\mathsf{add}(\mathscr{M}_{\kappa})$ $\mathsf{cof}(\mathscr{M}_{\kappa})$ in terms $\mathsf{cov}(\ma...