BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES This study attempts to compare the pattern of growth of Indian children as assessed by weight for age, height for age and BMI for age with the WHO standards for growth (2006) and to explore the implications of differences in undernutrition rates in the 0-59 months of age group as assessed by these three indices. METHODS From the National Family Health Survey-3 database...

This paper presents the advantages of a strong coupled formulation to model the electro-mechanical coupling appearing in MEMS. The classical modeling approach is to use a staggered methodology iterating between two different programs to obtain the solution of the coupled problem. In this research a strong coupled formulation is proposed and a tangent stiffness matrix of the whole problem is com...

Devices/Applications/Reliability 6111 Reliability, Packaging, Testing, and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS V (Tanner/Ramesham) 6112 Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems IV (Papautsky/Wang/Vauchier) 6113 MEMS/MOEMS Components and Their Applications III (Olivier/Tadigadapa/Henning) 6114 MOEMS, Display, Imaging, and Miniaturized Microsystems IV (Ürey/Dickensheets/Gogoi) Founding Chair M...

Theoretical arguments and calculations are presented concerning atomic orbital-based population analyses, as well as the way they are affected by rigid rotation of the molecule. It was recently shown that the Löwdin distribution of atomic charges (atomic populations computed in a Löwdin-orthogonalized basis) is, in general, not rotationally invariant unless an initial atom-centered basis of pur...

A simple method for constructing collisions for Shpilrain’s polynomial-based hash function from ICISC 2006 is presented. The attack relies on elementary linear algebra and can be considered as practical: For the parameters suggested, we give a specific collision, computed by means of a computer algebra system.

The problem of finding domains in the state space of a nonlinear system which contain all compact invariant sets is considered. Such domains are computed for the Lorenz system by using different localizing functions.  2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 47.20.Ky; 05.45.-a; 05.45.Ac; 02.30.Hq