Poverty and Mental Health of Children and Adolescents Pratap Sharan, MD, PhD Address for Correspondence: Professor Pratap Sharan, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029. Email: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________________________ The bidirectional relationship between poor mental health an...

Animals are exposed, in the natural environment, to a range of human activity related dissolved chemicals that are potentially impacting on their fitness. The animals responses to such stress determines its fitness, physiology and in case of chemical signals also its behaviour. If physical or chemical changes in the ecosystem make the detection of such a chemical impossible, then it can be reas...

The optimization problem dealing with the development of the forecasting models on the base of strictly binary trees has been considered. The aim of paper is the comparative analysis of two optimization variants which are applied for the development of the forecasting models. Herewith the first optimization variant assumes the application of one quality indicator of the forecasting model named ...

Within the frame of the “SWAMP” project (a demonstration project co-financed by the European Community) an hybrid constructed wetland (CW) system was realized for the treatment of wastewater produced by a medium-size hotel located in Florence, Italy. The system consisted of a 70 m primary treatment by Imhoff tanks, a 160 m HF and a 180 m VF. The results obtained in the first year of operation r...

Comparing other methods of waste water treatment, constructed wetlands are one of the most fascinating practices because being a natural process they are eco-friendly have low construction and maintenance cost and have considerable capability of wastewater treatment. The current research was focused mainly on comparison of Ranunculus muricatus and Typha latifolia as wetland plants for domestic ...

Lactic acid bacteria have been used since ancient times for food preparation and for bio-conservation by fermentation. Selected strains are capable of producing antimicrobial peptides bacteriocins, which can be natural preservatives, especially in products with short shelf lives. The present study is focused on inhibitory effects of the bacteriocin-producing bacteria strains Enterococcus faeciu...

Abstract Background Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) recurs in nearly one-third of patients who develop an initial infection. Recurrent CDI (RCDI) is associated with considerable morbidity, mortality, and cost. Treatment for RCDI has not been not well examined. Methods A systematic review. Results Sixty-four articles were identified evaluating eight different treatment approaches: metronid...

There was a significant correlation between microvessel counts and interleukin (IL)-8 levels and between infiltrated macrophage counts and IL-8 levels in uterine cervical cancers. Immunohistochemical staining revealed that the localization of IL-8 was similar to that of CD68 for macrophages. The prognosis of the 20 patients with high IL-8 (>1000 pg/mg protein) in uterine cervical cancers was ex...

A range of monthly series are currently available giving indications of short-term movements in output in the United Kingdom. As the only available information, these indicators are routinely exploited in various ways although they only provide an incomplete picture of gross domestic product (GDP). The main aim of this paper is to suggest a formal and coherent procedure for grossing these month...

Since the monograph of Noble & Bradley (1933) few investigators have studied the courtship of lizards in detail (see Milstead 1967 for literature reviews). To my knowledge no one has described quantitatively the courtship of any lizard species and attempted to analyse geographic variation . Ferguson (1966) described the general courtship procedure of the side-blotched lizard Uta stansburiana fr...