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AIM This community-based study was conducted to assess the progress of Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. METHOD In this cross sectional survey, 120 randomly selected clusters in 03 districts of NWFP were included, 2673 children in the age group 12-35 months of 2583 randomly selected families were visited. RESULTS The results showed ...

This paper quantitatively investigates vulnerability to risk as a characteristic of dynamic poverty in low income countries. A household is defined as vulnerable to consumption risk if it has to drastically reduce its consumption level when hit by a negative income shock. To empirically operationalize the definition, descriptive analyses based on transition matrix are combined with regression m...

How might archival fragments of an economic anthropologist post-Ottoman Egypt speak to current debates about finance and financialization? Literature in critical financial studies often reads as if financialization began 1970 moves outward from the global North like a mobile frontier remaking world its image. But there is anything ‘frontier finance,' it moved East West long before Industrial Re...

background: vitamin c levels are low in pregnancy. the purpose of this study was to determine serum vitamins c levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a general hospital in dawakin kudu, kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of vitamin c supplementation in pregnancy. methods: this was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal...

effect of fire on phyto-sociology of understorey vegetation in chir pine forests of three different silvological characteristics was compared with pure grassland. 15 grasses, 1 sedge, 5 legumes and 21 non-legumes were recorded in the four study sites. floristic composition gradually increased from june to august and then declined slowly by october in all the plots. maximum number of species was...

The geographic distribution of Astragalus (Fabaceae) in Iran was analyzed using a database of 7606 georeferencedobservations. Astragalus occurs in all provinces of Iran, but 88% ofthe observations are in five provinces including Tehran, West-Azerbaijan, Esfahan, Kordestan, and Khorasan-e Razavi.Most species are rare and narrowly endemic: Thelargest distance between two observations of the same ...