This article assesses insurance uptake in three community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes located in rural parts of two of India's poorest states and offered through women's self-help groups (SHGs). We examine what drives uptake, the degree of inclusive practices of the schemes and the influence of health status on enrolment. The most important finding is that a household's socio-economic...

This study investigated the effects of endurance followed by strength training (ES, men n = 16; women n = 15), the reverse exercise order (SE, men n = 18, women n = 13) and concurrent endurance and strength training performed on alternating days (AD, men n = 21, women n = 18) on cardiorespiratory parameters. Peak oxygen consumption ([Formula: see text]O2peak) and oxygen consumption at sub-maxim...

BACKGROUND Boric acid is widely used in biology, but its body weight reducing effect is not researched. METHODS Twenty mice were divided into two equal groups. Control group mice drank standard tap water, but study group mice drank 0.28mg/250ml boric acid added tap water over five days. Total body weight changes, major organ histopathology, blood biochemistry, urine and feces analyses were co...

Determining structure and motion from the images produced by a camera on a moving robot is a nonlinear and potentially poorly conditioned computation. A reliable system must use redundant data so that small random errors in the inputs cancel out statistically to produce better outputs. Furthermore, the output quantities to be computed must be well observable, that is, they should have well-meas...

Deep neural networks have recently shown excellent performance on numerous image classification tasks. These often need to estimate a large number of parameters and require much training data. When the amount data is small, however, network with high flexibility quickly overfits data, resulting in model variance poor generalization. To address this problem, we propose new, simple yet effective ...

conclusions with the proper operation of wastewater the treatment plant and increasing the retention time, the removal efficiency of the detergents increased. in addition, according to the environmental standards for bod5, cod and the detergents, the results of the present study indicated that the outputs of these parameters from the sbr system were appropriate for agricultural irrigation. resu...

Sixth International Symposium on Robotics Research, MIT Press, 1993 Determining structure and motion from the images produced by a camera on a moving robot is a nonlinear and potentially poorly conditioned computation. A reliable system must use redundant data so that small random errors in the inputs cancel out statistically to produce better outputs. Furthermore, the output quantities to be c...

O ne of the effective strategies for economic development of clusters is the conduct of networking activities by cluster members. Indeed, the majority of cluster members are micro and small enterprises, so, should attempt to overcome their inherent constraints and influence the market through networking activities. In addition, these enterprises lack an intra-firm research and develo...