This study describes the clinical characteristics and co-infections in infants born to HIV infected women being followed up in a high risk clinic of South Africa Sixty three percent (302 out of 476) of mothers attended clinic for varying periods during follow-up. Sixty four per cent of babies had physical clinical signs suggestive of HIV infection. In the majority of babies, persistent signs re...

Introduction: Effective perception of fear signals is crucial for organism survival. When threated, the organism indicates defensive behaviors. Methods: Elevated plus–maze has high efficiency for measurement of fear behavior and is widly used for fear behavior determination. Increase in two parameters percent of openarm entries (%OAE) and percent of time spent in the open-arm (%OAT) in the ...

BACKGROUND Botswana national health policy states that the Ministry of Health shall from time to time review and revise its organization and management structures to respond to new developments and challenges in order to achieve and sustain a high level of efficiency in the provision of health care. Even though the government clearly views assuring efficiency in the health sector as one of its ...

This study was conducted to assess the comparative efficiency of Aftab Bahumukhi Farm Limited (ABFL) supervised broiler farms and farmers’ own managed broiler farms. Data were collected from randomly selected 90 broiler farmers of which 45 were ABFL supervised farmers and 45 were own managed farmers. Cobb-Douglas stochastic production function and cost frontier function were applied to determin...

We present a lattice determination of the charm quark’s mass, using the mass of the Ds meson as experimental input. All errors are under control with the exception of the quenched approximation. Setting the scale with FK = 160MeV, our final result for the renormalization group invariant (RGI) quark mass is Mc = 1.654(45)GeV, which translates to mMS c (mc) = 1.301(34)GeV for the running mass in ...

introduction: in this study, total factor productivity growth components in rough rice production are assisting by econometric approach and stochastic frontier function during 2005-2013 for several provinces (mazandaran province, guilan province, golestan province, fars province, khoozestan province). according to food and agriculture organization statics, iran is the 3rd importer and 20th expo...

Challenges to Finding Safe and Affordable Housing Securing safe and affordable housing is a challenge for millions of Americans. For individuals with severe and persistent mental illness this challenge is even more diffi cult. The sad reality is that most individuals with severe and persistent mental illness live at or below the poverty line and even though many receive subsidized supports such...