BACKGROUND In Tanzania over 1/3 of the population is under 24 years. Nationwide 23% of teenagers have started childbearing. However, Mtwara Region has the highest percentage (25.5%) of teenagers who begin childbearing early. Mtwara District has a teenage pregnancy rate of 11% with young people utilizing sexual reproductive health services (SRHS) less frequently than adults.This study aimed at g...

TOPIC: Diffuse Lung Disease TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: Pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis (PPFE) is a rare fibrosing lung disease with an upper lobe predilection. Its natural history and prognosis have not been fully elucidated because of the rarity heterogeneous etiologies fibrosis. Sleep often causes profound changes on respiratory system, especially in patients underlying chronic p...

We present a continuum model for thermally induced volume transitions in stimulus–responsive hydrogels (SRHs). The framework views the transition as proceeding via the motion of a sharp interface separating swollen and collapsed phases of the underlying polymer network. In addition to bulk and interfacial force and energy balances, our model imposes an interfacial normal configurational force b...

We present the results of experiments aimed at assigning domains to speech recognition hypotheses (SRH). The methods rely on high-level linguistic representations of SRHs as sets of ontological concepts. We experimented with two domain models and evaluated their performance against a statistical, wordbased model. Our hand-annotated and tf*idf-based models yielded a precision of 88,39% and 82,59...

In this paper we present ONTOSCORE, a system for scoring sets of concepts on the basis of an ontology. We apply our system to the task of scoring alternative speech recognition hypotheses (SRH) in terms of their semantic coherence. We conducted an annotation experiment and showed that human annotators can reliably differentiate between semantically coherent and incoherent speech recognition hyp...

the welding in cold formed areas is not only an open question for statically loaded sections (brittle fracture) but also for dynamically loaded structures (fatigue resistance). a lot of structures are subjected to dynamic loadings and unfortunately very little information about the influence of welding in the cold formed areas on fatigue resistance is available. in order to establish the fatigu...

BACKGROUND The considerable increase of non-standard labor contracts, unemployment and inactivity rates raises the question of whether job insecurity and the lack of job opportunities affect physical and mental well-being differently from being employed with an open-ended contract. In this paper we offer evidence on the relationship between self-reported health and the employment status in Ital...

[Slide 4] This table gives the relative risk of low versus high SES in a sample of elderly in the U.S. in 1993. I will say more later about the sample. Relative risks that are statistically significant at the five percent level are highlighted. People are low SES if they are in the bottom quartile for income and wealth, lave less than a high school education, and live in a dwelling in poor cond...

Slum rehabilitation housing (SRH) are critical transitional spaces in urban informality that has deep-rooted implications on poverty alleviation efforts. However, current literature reports systemic injustices SRH access to essential services, including energy injustices. This study investigated distributive the across three cities, Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, developing ‘energy cultures’...