OBJECTIVES To compare the measles vaccine coverage achieved through the routine vaccination program with that achieved during the 2002 supplemental immunization activity (SIA) at the national and provincial level, the percentage of previously unvaccinated children (zero-dose children) reached during the SIA, and the equity of measles vaccine coverage among children aged 9-23 months in Kenya. ...

Background and Objectives: Increased environmental concerns about synthetic packaging have promoted developments of novel, environmentally-friendly edible films. In the present study, the quality parameters of chicken egg coated with pectin or pectin incorporated cinnamon hydrosol was assessed. Materials and Methods: Egg chicken were coated with pectin and pectin prepared with cinnamon hydroso...

Zumkeller M, Behrmann R, Heissler HE, Dietz H. Computed tomographic criteria and survival rate for patients with acute subdural hematoma. Neurosurgery 1996;39: 708–713 Among 174 patients with acute subdural hematomas, hematoma thickness exceeding 18 mm was associated with survival rates that progressively fell below 50%. A 50% survival rate was reached when the midline shift reached 50%, and su...

of a system, both s yles may be combined: An activity developed bottom-up may at some level be composed with one that is to be developed top-down, and an initial top-down design of an application may be refined until a level is reached where existing activities can be used and encapsulated. If an activity is useful in a number of applications, it can be stored in a library and reused later in o...

The measurement of top quark spin correlation is an important tool for precise studies of top quark interactions. In this letter I construct a quantization axis maximizing the spin correlation at the LHC within the Standard Model. Using this axis a spin correlation of 48% or even more, on applying additional cuts, can be reached. This represents a significant improvement compared to the helicit...

Corrections of O(α 2 s) to the decay of the top quark into a W boson and a bottom quark are calculated. The method is based on an expansion of the top quark propa-gator for small external momentum, q, as compared to the top quark mass, M t. The physical point q 2 = M 2 t is reached through Padé approximations. The described method allows to take effects induced by a finite W boson mass into acc...

We evaluate the Onsager matrix for a system under time-periodic driving by considering all its Fourier components. By application of the second law, we prove that all the fluxes converge to zero in the limit of zero dissipation. Reversible efficiency can never be reached at finite power. The implication for an Onsager matrix, describing reduced fluxes, is that its determinant has to vanish. In ...

Corrections of O(α 2 s) to the decay of the top quark into a W boson and a bottom quark are calculated. The method is based on an expansion of the top quark propa-gator for small external momentum, q, as compared to the top quark mass, M t. The physical point q 2 = M 2 t is reached through Padé approximations. The described method allows to take effects induced by a finite W boson mass into acc...