OBJECTIVE The accuracy of a population-based sex ratio at birth (SRB) in China has long been questioned. To depict a more accurate profile, the present study used data from a national surveillance system for health facility births to explore the characteristics of SRB in China. METHODS Data from China's National Maternal Near Miss Surveillance System between 2012 and 2015 were used. We restri...

BACKGROUND Ghana's current Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) of 319 per 100,000 live births makes achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal of 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births or less by 2030 appear to be illusory. Skilled assistance during childbirth is a critical strategy to reducing maternal mortality, yet the proportion of deliveries taking place within health facilities where ...

We present a method that allows to guarantee liveness by construction of a class of timed systems. The method is based on the use of a set of structural properties which can be checked locally at low cost. We provide su cient conditions for liveness preservation by parallel composition and priority choice operators. The latter allow to restrict a system's behavior according to a given priority ...

This paper is a contribution to the literature on aid and growth. Despite an extensive existing empirical literature in this area, studies have not paid much attention to the importance of transmission mechanisms in determining the influence of aid inflows on growth rates. In other words, existing studies have failed to specify the mechanisms via which aid should affect growth. We identify inve...

OBJECTIVES To examine nursing facility residents' or their legal proxies' perspectives on transitioning out of nursing facilities by assessing residents' perceptions of their ability to live more independently, their preferences regarding leaving the facility, and the feasibility of transitioning with community support. DESIGN Analysis of survey findings from the California Nursing Facility T...

OBJECTIVES: To examine nursing facility residents’ or their legal proxies’ perspectives on transitioning out of nursing facilities by assessing residents’ perceptions of their ability to live more independently, their preferences regarding leaving the facility, and the feasibility of transitioning with community support. DESIGN: Analysis of survey findings from the California Nursing Facility T...

Portugal has an uneven, city-centered bias in the distribution of hemodialysis centers found to contribute to health care inequities. A model has been developed with the aim of minimizing access inequity through the identification of the best possible localization of new hemodialysis facilities. The model was designed under the assumption that individuals from different geographic areas, ceteri...

Many patients and expectant mothers in low-income countries bypass local health facilities search of better-quality services. This study examines the impact a payment-for-performance (P4P) scheme on bypassing practices among women Tanzania. We expect P4P intervention to reduce incidences by improving quality services facilities, thereby reducing incentive migrate. used difference-in-difference ...

This paper explores live coding environments in the context of notational systems. The improvisational practice of live coding as combining both composition and performance is introduced and selected systems are discussed. The author’s Threnoscope system is described, but this is a system that enables the performer to work with both descriptive and prescriptive scores that can be run and altere...

In this paper, we present some preliminary studies on reducing the emittance of the Hefei light source II (HLS-II) storage ring by redistributing the synchrotron damping partition factor using a Robinson wiggler. The studies demonstrate that it is possible to reduce the emittance by 50% using a 2-meter long wiggler on a rematched lattice. This encouraging result suggests a feasible option to si...