The postnatal ontogeny of [t25I]a-bungarotoxin (a-Btx) binding distribution in rat neocortex was described and quantified using autoradiography of in vitro labeled brain sections. During the first two weeks, distinctive transitory radial and laminar patterns emerged. Dense columnar bands of a-Btx binding extended through the depth of primary sensory cortex, including somatosensory, visual and a...

Because of severe affordability and skills constraints it is especially difficult to bring the Internet to rural areas of developing countries. But a number of promising alternatives are beginning to emerge. These are mainly designed to bring the Internet to non-users, that is, persons who do not actually come into direct contact with the technology. Such persons make up the bulk of the rural p...

Health data collection poses unique challenges in rural areas of the developing world. mHealth systems that are used by health workers to collect data in remote rural regions should also record contextual information to increase confidence in the fidelity of the collected data. We built a user-friendly, mobile health-data collection system using wireless medical sensors that interface with an A...

We report the experience gained in an e-Health project in the Gauteng province, in South Africa. A Proof-of-Concept of the project has been already installed in 3 clinics in the Sebokeng township. The project is now going to be applied to 300 clinics in the whole province. This extension of the Proof-of-Concept can however give rise to security flaws because of the inclusion of rural areas with...

BACKGROUND WHO recommends antenatal (after the first trimester) deworming for pregnant women who live in areas where the prevalence of hookworm infection exceeds 20-30%. However, deworming has not been included in antenatal care packages in most developing countries. METHODS A review of articles publishing original data identified primarily through Medline was conducted using subject heading ...

Development: The World Bank Group’s mission is to work for a world without poverty. An important part of this mission is expanding access to modern energy services for an estimated two billion people who still lack such services (World Bank 1996, ESMAP 2000c). Expanded access to energy services is inexorably linked to today’s transforming energy sector. Although ongoing reforms are showing succ...

This paper addresses the limitations the scarcity of reliable scientific information poses to the implementation of effective and sustainable coastal management programmes in developing countries. Alternatives to the current monitoring approaches are suggested as to improve information level on the state of the environment and to decrease data gap on past conditions. The paper aims at encouragi...

This paper utilized system dynamics modeling as a new analytical approach to predict both the municipal waste generated and the associated disposal costs in developing areas. This approach facilitates the decomposition of general waste into its main components to enable municipalities to manage recyclables and find out the feasibility of performing recycling better rather than disposal by perfo...

information technology (it) is now widely in use in social .economical and cultural domains all over the world. iran has a forty years long experience in academic computer science education besides more than seven years of experience in it education. due to increasing importance of it application in today's human life and its improving and dynamic nature, it seems to be necessary to consid...

in the new millennium, information technology (it) has become very effective and this is becoming evident in both developed and developing countries. these areas are especially within the fields of information gathering, in the broadest sense, and of developing and strengthening networks both internal and external to the surrounding environment. today, more and more companies, organizations and...