BACKGROUND The World Health Organisation has recommended the use of anthropometric measurements as birth weight surrogates. However, it has been found that cut-off points for these anthropometric measurements vary across nations and ethnic groups. OBJECTIVES To determine the predictive values of chest circumference (CC), occipito-frontal circumference (OFC) and their combinations for low birt...

background: hypoglycemia is one of the most common neonatal disorders, associated with severe complications. there has been a great deal of controversy regarding the definition and screening of hypoglycemia. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine a cut-off value for blood glucose level in glucometer readings. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 238 newborns at risk of ...

A lot of work has been devoted to the study of the magnetic interactions between two paramagnetic centres bridged by an aromatic ring.[1] The study of the spin delocalisation and polarisation effects is helpful in order to understand the nature of these magnetic interactions. The spin-polarisation mechanism itself provides a key tool for predicting the kind of magnetic interactions in high-spin...

We answer the question: If a vacuum sector Hamiltonian is regularized by an energy cutoff, how one-kink regularized? find that it not indeed normal modes of all energies are present in kink Hamiltonian, but rather decomposition field into mode operators yields coefficients which lie on constrained surface forces them to become small for above cutoff. This explains old observation cutoff leads i...

Phlorotannins are a group of complex polymers of phloroglucinol (1,3,5-trihydroxybenzene) unique to macroalgae. These phenolic compounds are integral structural components of the cell wall in brown algae, but also play many secondary ecological roles such as protection from UV radiation and defense against grazing. This study employed Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) with tandem m...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Several studies have raised the suspicion that the body mass index (BMI) cut-off for overweight as defined by the WHO may not adequately reflect the actual overweight status. The present study looked at the relationship between BMI and body fat per cent (BF %) / health risks (hypertension and type 2 diabetes) in male residents of Lucknow city, north India to evaluate the...

date juice was treated by cross- flow ultra-filtration with molecular weight cut-off (mwco) of 5 kda. optimized levels of feed brix, tmp and operation time were determined as 47.13, 82.11 psi and 30 min, respectively. under such conditions, 80.94% decolourisation and 97.78 % turbidity reduction were obtained while loss of glucose and fructose were estimated to be only 3.49% and 9.62%, respectiv...

Swimming pool water treatment in general includes flocculation, sand filtration, and subsequent disinfection with chlorine. The continuous chlorination and input of organic material by bathers in combination with recirculation of the pool water leads to an accumulation of disinfection by-products (DBPs) in the water. Several DBPs have been identified as human carcinogens and are thought to caus...