BACKGROUND The use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) is threatened by the spread of resistance to SP. Therefore, we studied the efficacy, safety, and tolerance of amodiaquine (AQ) or the combination of AQ and SP (SPAQ) as possible alternative treatments. METHODS The study was performed in Ghana from June 2004 through February 2007. Wom...

In the present paper, authors study strange stars with MIT Bag EoS admitting Buchdahl symmetry (non-singular and physically viable metric potential) in both linear $$f(Q)=aQ+b$$ nonlinear $$f(Q)=Q+aQ^b$$ forms of modified symmetric teleparallel gravitation. order to obtain correct form coefficients, they matched interior star space-time exterior Schwarzschild vacuum space-time. As a candidate, ...

We construct  a noncommutative analog of additive functional equations on discrete quantum semigroups and show that this noncommutative functional equation has Hyers-Ulam stability on amenable discrete quantum semigroups. The discrete quantum semigroups that we consider in this paper are in the sense of van Daele, and the amenability is in the sense of Bèdos-Murphy-Tuset. Our main result genera...

The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) is a self-report measure of autistic traits. It is frequently cited in diverse fields and has been administered to adults of at least average intelligence with autism and to nonclinical controls, as well as to clinical control groups such as those with schizophrenia, prosopagnosia, anorexia, and depression. However, there has been no empirical systematic review...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine, and the sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine-amodiaquine combination for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria in young children in Cameroon. METHODS In a randomized study we evaluated the effectiveness and tolerance of (i) sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) (25 mg/kg body weight of sulfadoxine a...

A one parameter, model confined-gluon propagator is employed in a phenomenological application of the Dyson-Schwinger and Bethe-Salpeter equations to the calculation of a range of πand ρ-meson observables. Good agreement is obtained with the data. The calculated quark propagator does not have a singularity on the real-p2 axis. A mass formula for the pion, involving only the vacuum, dressed quar...

Using the fixed point method, we prove the generalized Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of the following functional equation in multi-Banach spaces:begin{equation} sum_{ j = 1}^{n}fBig(-2 x_{j} + sum_{ i = 1, ineq j}^{n} x_{i}Big) =(n-6) fBig(sum_{ i = 1}^{n} x_{i}Big) + 9 sum_{ i = 1}^{n}f(x_{i}).end{equation}

Autism spectrum traits exist on a continuum and are more common in males than in females, but the basis for this sex difference is unclear. To this end, the present study draws on the extreme male brain theory, investigating the relationship between sex difference and the default mode network (DMN), both known to be associated with autism spectrum traits. Resting-state functional magnetic reson...