Background: Prenatal care service is an important public health intervention in Ghana but its contribution to the adoption of healthy infant feeding behaviours remains unclear. This study was designed toassess the relationship between adequate prenatal care utilization and postpartum infant feeding behaviours. Methods: We used a cross-sectional design on a sample of 384 postpartum mothers who h...

Raymond J. Carroll Department of Statistics Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 We study logistic regression with response y when the true predictor x is measured with· error and the observable data consist of pairs (y,w), where w is correlated with x. Two approaches to estimation are studied. In the first, integrated likelihood estimates are obtained from the conditional distributio...

Background: Overcrowding of emergency departments (ED) during out-of-hours health care is a common problem in many Western countries. An appealing alternative for ED’s is the general practices cooperatives (GPC): regional networks of GP’s during the out-of-hours. The aim of this study is to investigate the socio-economic determinants of patients’ choice to opt for one of both health care provid...

This paper presents an innovative approach to investigate the information encoding taking place in the visual pathway, particularly the retinal pathway. Gabor time-frequency (TF) transformation is applied to the spatio-temporal spike trains from the layers of the retinal pathway, corresponding to input object stimuli varying in shape, orientation & distance. These spike trains are generated by ...

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding for first 6 months of life is recommended under Infant and Young Child Feeding practices in India. The objective of present study was to estimate the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding during first 6 months of life of babies and to identify factors that interfere with the practice in the study area. Methods: A prospective cohort of 462 women who delivered ...

Landslides are a major geologic hazard with estimated tens of deaths and $1–2 billion in economic losses per year in the US alone. The island of Puerto Rico experiences one or two large events per year, often triggered in steeply sloped areas by prolonged and heavy rainfall. Identifying areas susceptible to landslides thus has great potential value for Puerto Rico and would allow better managem...

The nutritional status of under five children is a sensitive sign of a country's health status as well as economic condition. This study investigated differential impact of some demographic, socioeconomic, environmental and health related factors on nutritional status among under five children in Bangladesh whose fathers' occupation was agriculture. The study used Bangladesh Demographic and Hea...

The computational complexity of general change of basis algorithms from one bivariate polynomial basis of degree n to another bivariate polynomial basis of degree n using matrix multiplication is O(n 4). Applying blossoming and duality, we derive change of basis algorithms with computational complexity O(n 3) between two important classes of polynomial bases used for representing surfaces in CA...

abstract L-bases and B-bases are two important classes of polynomial bases used for representing surfaces in CAGD. The B ezier and multinomial bases are special cases of both L-bases and B-bases. We establish that certain proper subclasses of bivariate Lagrange and Newton bases are L-bases and certain proper subclasses of power and Newton dual bases are B-bases. A geometric point-line duality b...

Studies conducted in Africa have demonstrated the existence of a significant association between family environment and the sexual behaviour of adolescents. Generally, empirical studies of this topic are based on parental control, and family or conjugal instability and socialization approaches. The objective of this study is to assess the association between family environment and the sexual be...