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Growth is a very important marker for child’s health, therefore monitoring it with growth charts is essential. The aim of this study is to develop specific growth charts for Lebanese children and to determine the influence of gender, breastfeeding duration and child’s rank in the family on children’s development and the corresponding growth charts. Thus, this retrospective study was performed in Lebanon on 400 infants from birth until 2 years of age. The data was collected from the files of four pediatricians, and analyzed on SPSS. The charts were established on Microsoft Excel.

Introduction: It sought to verify the adequacy of the professional composition of the family health support centers (FHSC), to the needs of the territory of its reference teams, from the professional's perspective of family health strategy (ESF). Methods: We have developed descriptive study, exploratory, retrospective, quantitative, transversal.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) characterized by stromal fibrosis develops in 90% of cases of liver cirrhosis, during the clinical course of chronic liver inflammation. Arginase-1 (Arg-1), fibronectin (FN), IL-13, and the inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) are important regulators of proliferation, differentiation, tumorigenesis.. This study was conducted to investigate the progression of liver fibrosis (cirrhosis) to HCC by inducing diethyl-nitrosamine (DEN) and N-nitrosomorpholine (N-Mor) in Spraque-Dawleyrats.

Matrix support, in Brazilian primary health care, is characterized as a device for reorganization of the work processes, which encourages the expansion of the clinical approach, the resolution potentiality in this area and the reflection of established practices. From this perspective, the Family Health Support Centres were created to work in partnership with primary care teams, instituting specialized assistance and aiming to provide comprehensive care. Given this established situation, this study intended to analyse the actions developed by the support centres.

WSSV is one of the most serious viral diseases affecting cultured shrimp worldwide This lethal virus causes formation of white spots in exoskeleton under carapace and can infect not only penaeid shrimps, but also other marine and freshwater crustaceans. The WSSV genome contains at five known major structural proteins: VP39, VP28, VP19, VP26, VP24 and VP15. Studies on WSS viral proteins have demonstrated that VP28 and VP19 are associated with the virion envelope. In the present study ,we investigated the efficacy of recombinant proteins VP39 and VP28 expressed in E.

An ethnobotanical study was carried out from August 2015 to October 2016 for documentation of ethnobotanical knowledge of rural people of Gurugram district about the digestive disorders by using wild plants. For this purpose, many surveys of this district has been conducted for collecting the ethnobotanical data during the year 2015-2016. Four surveys were carried out in throughout the area for collecting traditional uses of plants, local name, plant parts used and medicinal value.

In recent years many control characteristics were implemented to improve the performance of machines in the field of power electronics. Some of the controllers give very good performance to achieve the premeditated value; out of these controllers the model predictive controller (MPC) gives good results in power electronics drive control. This paper presents application of model predictive controller for switched reluctance motor is done and performance characteristics are compared with the PID controller.

Availability of water in the desired quantity and quality at the right time and place has been the key to the survival of all civilizations. Water is the lifeblood of humanity and ground water is the drinking water source of last resort. Ground water is present in underground aquifers which are subject to annual recharge from precipitation, but the rate of recharge is impacted by human interference.

Plants face different abiotic stresses that reduce crop production worldwide. Cold stress is the main abiotic stress that reduce plant yield in hilly areas. Cold resistance in plants is considered to be an interesting phenomenon with complex signaling pathways. Tolerance to cold in plants is acquired by exposing them to a low non freezing temperature and involves extensive changes at molecular level. Understanding the molecular mechanism behind the cold resistance in plants can help us to develop more and more cold tolerant plants.

Introduction: Cervical tooth pathologies, in addition to caries, can be found in the form of carious and non-carious cervical lesions, the occurrence of which generates irreversible loss of dental structure. Non-carious cervical lesions (NCCL) involve the superficial pathological loss of dental tissue by a non-bacterial process different from that of caries.