OBJECTIVES Within a randomised trial of neonatal vitamin A supplementation (VAS) in Guinea-Bissau, neonatal VAS did not affect overall infant mortality. We conducted a post-hoc analysis to test the hypothesis that neonatal VAS primes the response to subsequent vitamin A. METHODS All trial children were offered VAS after follow-up ended at 1 year of age (FU-VAS). We compared mortality between ...

BACKGROUNDS Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) originating from the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) sometimes require catheter ablation from both the endocardial and epicardial sides for their elimination, suggesting the presence of intramural VA foci. This study investigated the prevalence and electrocardiographic and electrophysiological characteristics of these idiopathic intramu...

BACKGROUND WHO recommends high-dose Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) at vaccination contacts after 6 months of age. It has not been studied whether the effect of VAS on mortality depends on the type of vaccine. We have hypothesized that VAS administered with measles vaccine (MV) is more beneficial than VAS with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccine. We assessed the effect of VAS administere...

This paper discusses the visual algebraic speciication (vas) formalism and its supporting interactive environment (vase). The vas formalism is intended for the deenition of visual syntax and semantics and is aimed at generating language speciic environments. The collection construct of vas is emphasized in that it supports the convenient speciication of language constructs involving arbitrarily...

Any algorithm of simulating the behavior of a real system requires a random number generator. A computer does not really generate random numbers because computer employs a deterministic algorithm but a list of pseudo-random numbers which can be considered random. There are many algorithms for computing random numbers and there is not a single best among them. Most programing languages have buil...

background: precious fruits like jambul are neglected and wasted while environmental pollutants like lead intake remain overlooked. objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the jambul pulp extract on lead detrimental effects in pseudostratified epithelium and the stereocilia of mice epididymis and vas deferens. materials and methods: thirty young males mice (mus muscul...

carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is a neuropathy due to the compression of the median nerve. it is shown that gabapentin in high doses is effective in treatment of cts patients. in this study we evaluated the efficacy of low doses of gabapentin in treatment of cts patients. ninety patients with cts were randomly assigned to groups a, b and c. gabapentin was administered to group a with dose of 100 ...