OBJECTIVE Generally, lead poisoning is not considered a significant environmental hazard for children in rural areas of developing countries. With a prospectively designed policy experiment, the research community and the government are conducting a broad-based investigation to introduce and evaluate the impact of health policy reforms on children in a rural area of the Philippines - the Qualit...

introduction: determining the overlap rates is a quantitative method to compare database contents. in this survey, traditional overlap, relative overlap and synthetic degrees of freedom between pubmed as a free database and scopus as a subscription-based one in the cardiovascular disease field have been determined. methods: this descriptive applied research was done during january to june 2009....

Background: The role that stress plays in infertility remains controversial and despite medical advances a large percentage of infertility remains unexplained. Clinicians and researchers consistently report that infertile women view infertility and its treatment as extremely stressful. Basic science has elucidated the linkages between the hypothalamic-pituitary axis (HPA) and hypothalamic-pitui...

Abstract As an important class of aggregation operators, the notion overlap functions was first presented in 2009 order to be considered for applications image processing context. Later, many other researches arised bringing some variations those different purposes. Here, our main goal is defining on lattices and discuss how a weakned version it, named quasi-overlaps, works when continuity elim...

In this paper, we propose a novel ICP variant that uses a histogram in conjunction with multiple closest points to detect the overlap area between range images geing registered. Tentative correspondences sharing similar distances are normally all within, or all outside, the overlap area. Thus, the overlap area can be detected in a bin by bin batch manner using a histogram. Using multiple closes...

Lead, which is widely used in industry, is a common element found in low concentrations in the Earth's crust. Implementations to reduce environmental lead concentrations have resulted in a considerable reduction of lead levels in the environment (air) and a sustained reduction in the blood lead levels of the average citizen. However, people are still being exposed to lead through a variety of r...