A comparative study on the child health-seeking behaviors of mothers from selected matrifocal and nuclear families in Barangay San Agustin II, Dasmarinas City

The researchers conducted a cross-sectional type of study. One hundred thirty one (131) mothers from nuclear and matrifocal families were selected by stratified random sampling. A structured questionnaire by Tsion A., et al (2014) was adapted by the researchers and data was analysed using frequency, percentage, and chi-square. There was a significant difference between the child health-sseking behaviors of mothers form matrifocal and nuclear families. Mothers from nuclear families have lesser financial capacity but didn\u27t hinder them from seeking medical treatment. Contrastingly, mothers from nuclear families availed free medical treatments more than mothers form matrifocal families. Most of them gave home medications prior to consultation. Also, even if the illness of their children was perceived to be mild, mothers from both groups still sought medical treatment. Finally, all mothers believed that early detection and treatment was very important in the child\u27s health care

Aqueous phase reforming in a microchannel reactor: the effect of mass transfer on hydrogen selectivity

Aqueous phase reforming of sorbitol was carried out in a 1.7 m long, 320 μm ID microchannel reactor with a 5 μm Pt-based washcoated catalyst layer, combined with nitrogen stripping. The performance of this microchannel reactor is correlated to the mass transfer properties, reaction kinetics, hydrogen selectivity and product distribution. Mass transfer does not affect the rate of sorbitol consumption, which is limited by the kinetics of the reforming reaction. Mass transfer significantly affects the hydrogen selectivity and the product distribution. The rapid consumption of hydrogen in side reactions at the catalyst surface is prevented by a fast mass transfer of hydrogen from the catalyst site to the gas phase in the microchannel reactor. This results in a decrease of the concentration of hydrogen at the catalyst surface, which was found to enhance the desired reforming reaction rate at the expense of the undesired hydrogen consuming reactions. Compared to a fixed bed reactor, the selectivity to hydrogen in the microchannel reactor was increased by a factor of 2. The yield of side products (mainly C3 and heavier hydrodeoxygenated species) was suppressed while the yield of hydrogen was increased from 1.4 to 4 moles per mole of sorbitol fed