OBJECTIVE To compare outcomes and charges of health care delivery to extremely low-birth-weight infants by neonatal nurse practitioners (NNP) and pediatric residents. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING A 56-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a university teaching hospital. METHODS Study population included all infants with birth weights less than 1000 g who were admitted t...

This chapter assesses the nature and degree of environmental degradation and resource depletion in China and their relationship to economic activity and environmental policies. We describe regulatory and other policies and consider their political economy determinants. Inasmuch as this objective can only be partially achieved, we hope to contribute to a research agenda for environmental and res...

S OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT ASCODD I. Infant and Child Nutrition CHANGES IN NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF UNDER-5 CHILDREN OF THE NNP AREA BETWEEN 2004 AND 2007 Presenting Author: Gulshan Ara Co-Authors: Dr. S. K. Roy, Senior Scientist, Dr. Iqbal Kabir, Prof. Michael J Dibley, Kingsley Agho, Mansura Khanam International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Background: In Bangladesh, 48% ...

the proposition that natural areas need protection from the destructive actions of people iswidely accepted. this paper examines iran’s e-society attitudes and capital towards biodiversity conservationand evaluates economically iran’s national parks (nps). 2,121 respondents answered an online questionnaire conducted in summer 2012. the majority of respondents had visited one of iran’s nps. almo...

Our previous researches showed that nitronyl nitroxyl derivatives, NNP and NNVP were good anti-oxidants and provided radioprotective effects in C6 cells. The objective of the present study is to investigate the possible antiviral effects and underlying pharmacological of the two nitronyl nitroxide radicals against CVB3 in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that NNP and NNVP were some of the ...

An operational research was done to explore the effect of targeted food supplementation by comparing the birthweight of the babies of two areas (intervention & nonintervention). This record-based study was carried out in Kapasia and Savar upazila of Dhaka division, relying on the primary organizational data of 565 mothers. In the National Nutrition Program (NNP) area only fifty percent moderate...

In the present study, nine species of Aspergillus, viz., A. alliaceus, A. ochraceus, A. persii, A. leproris, A. parasiticus, A. fumigatiaffinis, A. sydowii, A. niger, A. tubingensis and Eurotium amstelodami were obtained and identified from soils of the National Park of Urmia Lake, based on cultural and morphological characteristics. All of the species are newly recorded from hypersaline soils ...