BACKGROUND Data analysis in community health assessment (CHA) involves the collection, integration, and analysis of large numerical and spatial data sets in order to identify health priorities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) enable for management and analysis using spatial data, but have limitations in performing analysis of numerical data because of its traditional database architecture....

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation (AF) incorporate new risk factors for thromboembolism, trying to de-emphasize the use of the 'low', 'moderate', and 'high' risk categories. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of the new scheme CHA₂DS₂-VASc and of the new recommendations for oral anticoagulation (OAC) in a contemporary sampl...

OBJECTIVE Breast-feeding counselling has been identified as the intervention with the greatest potential for reducing child deaths, but there is little experience in delivering breast-feeding counselling at scale within routine health systems. The study aim was to compare rates of exclusive breast-feeding associated with a breast-feeding counselling intervention in which community health agents...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is not homogeneous, and various clinical risk factors have informed the development of stroke risk stratification schemes (RSS). Among anticoagulated cohorts, the emphasis should be on the identification of patients who remain at high risk for stroke despite anticoagulation. METHODS We investigated predictors ...

We present a precise kinematic study of very young brown dwarfs in the Cha I cloud based on radial velocities (RVs) measured with UVES at the VLT. The kinematics of the brown dwarfs in Cha I are compared to the kinematics of T Tauri stars in the same field based on UVES measurements for very low-mass ones and based on RVs from the literature. In comparison with a former paper (Joergens & Guenth...

We used the patch-clamp technique to examine the effect of adenosine on epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) activity in rat cortical collecting duct (CCD). Application of adenosine inhibits ENaC activity, and the effect of adenosine was mimicked by cyclohexyladenosine (CHA), an A(1) adenosine-receptor agonist that reduced channel activity from 1.32 to 0.64. The inhibitory effect of CHA on ENaC was...

Three anthocyanins were isolated from the leaves of red flower tea (Benibana-cha), Camellia sinensis, and their structures were determined by means of chemical and spectroscopic analyses. Two are the anthocyanins, delphinidin and cyanidin 3-O-beta-D-galactosides, respectively. Whereas the third, delphinidin 3-0-beta-D-(6-(E)-p-coumaryl)galactopyranoside. The anthocyanins were also contained in ...

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2000 39 Pet Formalisms versus Industry-Proven Survivors: Issues on Formal Methods Education S.D. Cha Department of Computer Science and Advanced Information Technology Research Centre (AITrc) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) 373–1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu Taejon, Korea Phone: 82-42-869-3...