Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) continues to be a major public health problem in Thailand. It affects physical growth, mental development, learning ability, and immune response to infections. In this discussion of PEM related to diarrhea in the children of Thailand, attention is directed to the following: intrauterine malnutrition; the practice of breast feeding; the prevalence of PEM in t...

OBJECTIVE To describe the patient population, diagnoses, and disposition of children and adolescents referred by Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) physicians to a Pediatric Psychiatric Crisis Clinic (PCC) for urgent consultation; to describe the percent agreement between PEM physician discharge diagnosis and subsequent child psychiatrist diagnoses. METHOD Data were obtained prospectively ove...

With the rapid growth of indoor wireless communication systems, the need to accurately model radio wave propagation inside the building environments has increased. Many site-specific methods have been proposed for modeling indoor radio channels. Among these methods, the ray tracing algorithm and the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method are the most popular ones. The ray tracing approach ...

A method has been developed to investigate the extent of polymer cross-linking that results following in situ photopolymerization of an acrylate-functionalized phospholipid assembly adsorbed onto a stabilized, membrane-mimetic film produced from a polyelectrolyte multilayer (PEM) on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) grafts. The acrylate phospholipid monomer was synthesized, prepared as a unilamell...

Post-exertional malaise (PEM) is regarded as the hallmark symptom in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The aim of current study to explore differences CFS patients with and without PEM indicators aortic stiffness, autonomic nervous system function, severity fatigue. One-hundred one met Fukuda criteria. A Chronic Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ) Impact Scale (FIS) were used assess level mental physical...

in order to present a new and high performance structure of pem fuel cell and study the influence of the flow direction and distribution on the rate of reactants diffusion, three novel models of vertical reactant flow injection into the anode and cathode reaction area field have been introduced. they consist of one inlet and two inlets and also a continuous channel. the governing equations on t...