Abstract Background Performance-based financing (PBF) has attracted considerable attention in recent years low and middle-income countries. Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) implemented a PBF programme between 2010 2015 to strengthen the utilisation maternal child health services primary facilities. This study aimed examine political economy factors influencing adoption, design imp...

In Cambodia, the energy and nutrient densities of the traditional rice-based complementary diets used for infant feeding are very low. Whether the adequacy improves after the first year of life is uncertain. Therefore, we examined the feeding practices and the energy and nutrient intakes from non-breastmilk foods (NBMFs) of two groups: partially breastfed (PBF) (n = 41) and non-breastfed (NBF) ...

Micro financing is providing financial services and resources for low-income people to improve their financial situation. In many less developed countries, providing these services for low-income classes was next to impossible due to high interest rates and heavy collaterals and guarantees that banks and other credit institutions demand. Micro financing was used since 1960s as a fundamenta...

Financing behavior, based on the financing decision made by the owner of urban rail transit projects, will directly affect the capital cost of its operation and the construction schedule of the project. This paper intended to combine financing demand and financing options with the project construction schedule, quality and investment management, and based on DEMATEL methodology, to identify and...

A genome-wide scan using 387 short tandem repeat markers was conducted for obesity among 618 black individuals from 202 families residing in a suburb of Chicago. Evidence for linkage was evaluated with BMI and percent body fat (PBF) using a variance component analysis approach. Suggestive evidence for linkage was found for BMI on chromosome 5 (logarithm of odds [LOD] score = 1.9) and PBF on chr...

This paper deals with the dilemma followed from the double character of knowledge. On the one hand, knowledge is an individual and social good determining quality of life. On the other hand, knowledge is an economical good, a funding concept of the knowledge-based economy. The dilemma is: should knowledge be for free or paid? It is argued in the paper that achievement of knowledge (information)...

The fatigue life of additively manufactured metals need to be improved before they can introduced flight critical aerospace structural applications. In this study, laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) and electron beam (E-PBF) Ti6Al4V material were therefore subjected four different surface post processes. Furthermore, variable amplitude testing performed compared predictions based on constant tests...

BACKGROUND There are various parameters to analyze obesity, however, no standard reference to predict, screen or diagnose PCOS with various obesity parameters has been established, and the accuracy of these parameters still needs to be studied.This study was to use the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to explore the different values of three obesity parameters, body mass index (BMI...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical classification of the body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) for the prediction of inflammatory and atherogenic lipid profile risk in older women. METHOD Cross-sectional analytical study with 277 elderly women from a local community in the Federal District, Brazil. PBF and fat-free mass (FFM) were determined by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. T...