OBJECTIVES To examine the level and trend in the coverage gap of a set of interventions of maternal and child health services using a summary index and to assess the disparity in usage of maternal and child health services in the districts of high focus states of India. DESIGN Data for the present study are taken from the Annual Health Survey (AHS), 2010-2013 and Census of India, 2011. SETT...

background infertility can affect the quality of life of infertile couples. the aim of this study was to develop and measure psychometric properties of “quality of life in infertile couple questionnaire” (qolicq). methods this study was conducted in two qualitative and quantitative phases. qualitative method involved semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of 34 infertile couples. a co...

Barite plaster has been largely used as shielding material in installations housing gamma radiation sources as well as x-ray generating equipment, in order to minimize exposure to individuals. However, some physical characteristics, such as density, plasticity, resistance to compression and radiation attenuation for the different types of barite plaster commercially available in Brazil are not ...

In this paper we develop a novel technique, calledMultiView, which enables implementation of page-based ne-grain dsms. We show how the traditional techniques for implementing page-based dsms can be extended to control the sharing granularity in a exible way, even when the size of the sharing unit varies, and is smaller than the operating system's page size. The run-time overhead imposed in the ...

OBJECTIVE Having a good quality of life has always been desirable for humans, and the concept of a good life and the ways of achieving it have become important over the years. Personal wellbeing is the mental component of quality of life. Thus, the current study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of the ''Personal Well-Being Index- Cognitive Disability'' on mentally retarded s...

Drought management depends on indicators to detect drought conditions, and triggers to activate drought responses. But determining those indicators and triggers presents challenges. Indicators often lack spatial and temporal transferability, comparability among scales, and relevance to critical drought impacts. Triggers often lack statistical integrity, consistency among drought categories, and...

BACKGROUND As Barthel Index (BI) quantifies motor impairment but not breathlessness, the use of only this index could underestimate disability in chronic respiratory disease (CRD). To our knowledge, no study evaluates both motor and respiratory disability in CRD during activities of daily living (ADLs) simultaneously and with a unique tool. The objective of this study was to propose for patient...

OBJECTIVE To assess factorial validity and internal consistency of the Brazilian version of the 'Spanish Burnout Inventory' (SBI). METHODS The translation process of the SBI into Brazilian Portuguese included translation, back translation, and semantic equivalence. A confirmatory factor analysis was carried out using a four-factor model, which was similar to the original SBI. The sample consi...

A vast amount of indices has been proposed in the literature [1] to quantify the deviation of a pairwise comparison matrix A = (aij)n×n from the consistency property aik = aijajk ∀i, j, k. In this paper we propose a unifying approach by expressing an inconsistency index as a function of the matrix entries aij satisfying a set of suitable properties. More precisely, we first consider the ‘local’...