With a maternal mortality rate of 539 per 100.000 live births, maternal health is of much concern in Nepal. In general, the availability and quality of (emergency) obstetric services is inadequate while the utilisation of maternity health services is lower in Nepal compared to other countries with similar infrastructure. Jahn et al. (2000) observe that cultural barriers, perceived low quality o...

Since the first successful pregnancy from a frozen human oocyte was reported, remarkable technological progress has been made in the area of cryopreservation of human oocytes. We report a successful delivery of two healthy babies after transfer of vitrified-warmed embryos derived from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with vitrified-warmed oocytes and frozen-thawed sperm. A female patient...

A common choice for the activation function that is computed at each node in a model neural network is one that is given by the logistie equation , OJ = ,,0+=.=,o,'I'('>:";-<l".=wO,=;,0;=+"";')/"1')" J in whieh OJ is the activation value (in [0,1]) for the jth unit (node), Ij is the s~t {il , ... ,in} of inputs to j, Wlj is the weight (in at) connecting all input i t.o unit j, Zi is the state (...

Ad hoc networks are non-infrastructure networks which consist of mobile nodes. Since the mobile nodes have limited battery power, it is very important to use energy efficiently in ad hoc networks. In order to maximize the lifetime of ad hoc networks, traffic should be sent via a route that can be avoid nodes with low energy while minimizing the total transmission power. In addition, considering...

Dear CPW participants, Thank you for reading my prospectus. I must warn you all that it is unfinished, and thus, unpolished. I look forward to any and all comments; however, I seek your collective wisdom on the following topics: 1. My current dependent variable for my statistical model is based on the Comparative Manifesto Project. However, I would like to test whether or not outreach occurred ...

− The Accredited Laboratories at their Certificate have described its best measurement capabilities (BMCs) for the more or less routine calibrations. This BMCs were usually evaluated by interlaboratory comparisons (ILCs), the proficiency testing (PT) schemes as described by the ISO Guide 43. The NMIs traditionally organize the ILCs for the NABs providing the travelling standards, the reference(...