since the report from the national high blood pressure (bp) education program working group on bp in children and adolescents and the introduction of a new description called prehypertension many data have been provided on its rate of progression to hypertension, its prevalence and association with other cardiovascular (cv) risk factors and its therapy. making a diagnosis of prehypertension in ...

Children are always precious. Neonatal septicemia is an important and common cause of morbidity and mortality in neonates. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates about four million neonatal deaths every year worldwide (WHO, 2005). The condition can be rapidly fatal if not treated promptly, aggressively and specifically. Treatment of sepsis is becoming more and more complicated because of inc...

In this article an on-farm monitoring approach on udder health is presented. Monitoring of udder health consists of regular collection and analysis of data and of the regular evaluation of management practices. The ultimate goal is to manage critical control points in udder health management, such as hygiene, body condition, teat ends and treatments, in such a way that results (udder health par...

The use of tracer conditions as an evaluative technique suggests the possibility of inferring the quality of health care and setting evaluation standards for programmed actions. As a government strategy, primary health care is a key element for reorganization of the Brazilian health care model. This study analyzes the use of cervical cancer as a tracer condition for assessing primary care. Base...

An index system for the health-status evaluation of cable-stayed bridges is presented based on a set of dissimilarity measures (abbr. DM) of the cable force of grouped cables. The DMs and its corresponding health status labels derived by the serviceability limit states of a bridge are determined by the combination of the finite element method and the influence matrix method. The Monte-Carlo met...

Lei Fu 1,2, Yanding Wei 1,2,* ID , Sheng Fang 2, Xiaojun Zhou 2 and Junqiang Lou 3 ID 1 The State Key Lab of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China; [email protected] 2 Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology of Zhejiang Province, College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, Chin...