BACKGROUND Malnutrition remains an important cause of childhood morbidity and mortality; the levels of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria are among the highest in the world. The literature supports many direct and indirect causes of malnutrition, but few studies have examined the link between maternal care during pregnancy and childbirth and childhood malnutrition. This study examines this poten...

Accurately monitoring spatio-temporal changes in lake water levels is important for studying the impacts of climate change on freshwater resources, and predicting natural hazards. In this study, we applied multi-mission radar satellite altimetry data from Laurentian Great Lakes, North America to optimally reconstruct multi-decadal lake-wide level. We used results study physical processes such a...

In this study, the effects of goat manure fertilization (2, 4, 8, and 12 Tn/ha) on grain yield, organic compounds, mineral composition two quinoa varieties (CICA-17 Regalona Baer) were evaluated under field conditions in Northwest Argentina. The results indicate that improved yield total protein content. Low doses positively affected fatty acid (FA) profile, significant changes determined for m...

El aumento de la expectativa vida niños y adolescentes con enfermedades respiratorias crónicas ha llevado a implementar estrategias como rehabilitación respiratoria (RR). presente artículo profundiza en las distintas indicaciones RR distintos niveles atención médica, distinto grado dependencias tecnológicas diversas patologías como: Fibrosis Quística, Bronquiolitis Obliterante, Enferme...

Signal of interest (SOI) extraction is a vital issue in communication signal processing. In this paper, we propose two novel iterative algorithms for extracting SOIs from instantaneous mixtures, which explores the spatial constraint corresponding to the Directions of Arrival (DOAs) of the SOIs as a priori information into the constrained Independent Component Analysis (cICA) framework. The firs...

R. Carmona1, S. Espejo2, R. Domínguez-Castro2, A. Rodríguez-Vázquez2, T. Roska3, T. Kozek1, L. O. Chua1 1 Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley 258M Cory Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Phone: 1-510-6425311 Fax: 1-510-6438869 E-mail: [email protected] 2Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla-CNM-Universidad de Sevilla. Edificio CICA, C/Tarfia s/n, 410...

Combination of electroencephalogram (EEG) recording and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) plays a potential role in neuroimaging due to its high spatial and temporal resolution. However, EEG is easily influenced by ballistocardiogram (BCG) artifacts and may cause false identification of the related EEG features, such as epileptic spikes. There are many related methods to remove them,...

In the square linear blind source separation problem, one must nd a linear unmixing operator which can detangle the result xi(t) of mixing n unknown independent sources si(t) through an unknown n n mixing matrix A(t) of causal linear lters: xi = P j aij sj . We cast the problem as one of maximum likelihood density estimation, and in that framework introduce an algorithm that searches for indepe...

This study looks at two aspects of assurance services. The first deals with the type(s) of evidential networks that will allow a professional accountant to provide assurance. Here, we develop an evidential network model for “WebTrust Assurance,” a service being provided by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA). ...