Objective: The present study was undertaken to explore the incidence of central nervous system anomalies in present geographical area. Method: Study includes 2000 consecutive pregnancies that have come for check up in second and third trimester with clinically relevant CNS malformations detectable by ultrasonography. Results: Analysis has revealed that there are 74 fetal anomalies in 34 fetuses...

As one of the important subjects in senior high school, English is not only a tool for communication, but also has rich cultural significance. High school teaching should make students realize its instrumental significance, connect with social life to guide establish correct values and achieve all-round development. The new college entrance examination reform puts more emphasis on competence ed...

The protection of safety-critical and infrastructure systems (such as automation systems for utilities, but also for manufacturing plants) against electronic and communication network based attacks becomes more and more important. This paper examines how such safety-critical plants and automation systems can be secured against information system and network based attacks. Based on the defense-i...

Pre-conceptional supplementation of folic acid is well known to reduce the incidence of spina bifida. But Athena is frequently perplexed to see this anomaly occurring despite folate supplementation. In a largest Canadian study, De Wal et al [1] screened 1.9 million live births to study the effect of mass fortification. On comparing pre and post fortification periods they noted only 46% reductio...

An earlier preliminary paper is expanded. Women who had given birth to one or more infants with a neural tube defect were recruited into a trial of per conceptional vitamin supplementation. Two hundred mothers attending five centres were fully supplemented (FS), 50 were partially supplemented (PS), and 300 were unsupplemented (US). Neural tube defect recurrences in the study pregnancies were 1 ...

The merits of integrative medicine such as traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) combined with Western medicine in preventing or ameliorating chronic diseases are increasingly in the biomedical research and clinical applications. Recent researches suggest that integrative medicine are not only the TCM plus Western medicine simply. They should be put together by scienti...

The memory size limits the scalability of virtual machine systems. There have been some researches about sharing identical pages among guest systems to reduce memory usage. However, they require memory overcommitment feature through swap mechanism which some virtual machines including Xen do not have. In this paper a new approach is proposed to share identical pages with designated sharing area...