An epidemiological cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the endemicity of malaria among the Orang Asli population of Raub, Pahang. Malaria endemicity was measured in terms of the prevalence of parasitaemia and splenomegaly. A total of 520 Orang Asli were examined. The point prevalence of malaria was 24.2% (95% CI 20.7-25.1), with Plasmodium falciparum (67.5%) being the predominant ...

Birth asphyxia is a leading cause of neonatal mortality in India. At present there is no reliable early marker to predict the outcome in these cases. We conducted this study to evaluate 8-hydroxy 2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) as a biochemical marker for predicting outcome in perinatal asphyxia. Term neonates fulfilling the inclusion criteria were recruited in the study. Cord blood was collected imm...

CERN announced in January 1996 the detection of the rst eleven atoms of antimatter ever produced. The experiment w as based on a method proposed earlier by S. Brodsky, C. Munger and I. Schmidt, and which furthermore predicted exactly the number of atoms that were detected for the particular conditions of the experiment. The study of antihydrogen aords science the opportunity to continue researc...

It is a great honor for me to present this Opening Lecture at the World Reliability Forum. I was a young man when I jumped in the white water of a vivid stream of reliability theory and application creek. Late 50-s and early 60-s were really the time of reliability “Renaissance”. Since then reliability has been developed to a powerful applied mathematical discipline, with both, theoretical and ...

ARHA110 Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to Modern This course surveys the development of Western art from the Renaissance through the modern period. We will examine art's changing status within specific social and artistic contexts: from the Church and court of the Renaissance, through the formation of art academies in the late 16th century, to the development of an increasingly indivi...

Algorithmic composition was already popular before the rise of the computer. In the Renaissance, dice based composition games were popular. In such game, a composition was stitched together from different fragments, where selection and order of these fragments was decided by the roll of a dice. Then, in 1957 Hiller and Isaacson [8] were the first to make a computer generate a musical compositio...