BACKGROUND Availability of a Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) during childbirth is a key indicator for MDG5 and a strategy for reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in Africa. There is limited information on how SBAs and their functions are defined. The aim of this study was to map the cadres of health providers considered SBAs in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA); to describe which signal functions of ...

Introduction Small bowel adenocarcinoma is a rare malignancy associated with a poor prognosis, and there is (removed ‘a’) weak evidence of effective treatment. Case presentation We report on a 72-year-old female who developed a peritoneal metastasis from recurrent small bowel adenocarcinoma after curative resection and adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 and polysaccharide K. Subsequently, no sign o...

Hexagonal mesoporous silica (SBA-15) was prepared and then functionalized by(3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane. The obtained 3-mercaptopropyl functionalized SBA-15 (SBA-Pr-SH) was then oxidized using H2O2 in methanol under an acidic condition to give sulfonic acid functionalized mesoporous silica (SBA-Pr-SO3H). Th...

Luiz Eduardo Imbelloni1*, Wagner Ferreira2, Roberto Assunção Botelho de Olim3, Piccinini Viana4, Jaime Weslei Sakamoto5 and André Augusto Araujo5 Author Affiliations 1CET-SBA Hospital Clínicas Municipal São Bernardo do Campo, INCA Senior Researcher, Rio Janeiro, Brazil 2Anesthesiology Resident 3Resident in Anesthesiology of 4Responsible for CET-SBA, Anesthesiologist 5Anesthesiologist Received: ...

SBA-CaCl 2 (SCa) composites with high CaCl content were prepared using the non-functionalized and methyl-and carboxyl-functionalized mesoporous SBA-15 supports their thermochemical heat storage (TCHS) performance have been investigated a TG/DSC system coupled humidity generator. This paper presents influence of silica (SBA-15) functionalization on structural-textural properties SCa consequently...

BACKGROUND In practice, small bowel cancer is a rare entity. The most common histologic subtype is adenocarcinoma. Adenocarcinoma of the small bowel (SBA) is challenging to diagnose, often presents at a late stage and has a poor prognosis. The treatment of early-stage SBA is surgical resection. No standard protocol has been established for unresectable or metastatic disease. CASE PRESENTATION...

Nickel supported on SBA-15 doped with CeO2 catalysts (Ni-CeO2/SBA-15) was prepared, and used for steam reforming of toluene which was selected as a model compound of biomass gasification tar. A fixed-bed lab-scale set was designed and employed to evaluate the catalytic performances of the Ni-CeO2/SBA-15 catalysts. Experiments were performed to reveal the effects of several factors on the toluen...

Soybean agglutinin (SBA) was used as a differential reagent to achieve selective elimination of human breast cancer cells (T-47D cell line) from human marrow contaminated with tumor cells. Two successive cycles of direct agglutination by soluble SBA resulted in depletion of 3.5 logs of tumor cells as determined by radiolabeling, whereas removal of more than 4 logs of tumor cells was demonstrate...

While enzymes are valuable tools in many fields of biotechnology, they are fragile and must be protected against denaturing conditions such as unfavorable solution pH. Within living organisms, chaperonins help enzymes fold into their native shape and protect them from damage. Inspired by this natural solution, mesoporous silica SBA-15 with different pore diameters is synthesized as a support ma...

Set based analysis SBA produces good predictions about the behavior of functional and object oriented programs The analysis proceeds by inferring constraints that char acterize the data ow relationships of the analyzed program Experiences with Rice s program development environment which includes a static debugger based on SBA indicate that SBA can deal with programs of up to a couple of thousa...