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Breast feeding and weaning practices among Pakistani and Chinese communities in Newcastle upon Tyne
Objectives
The objectives of this study were to determine the patterns of breast feeding and weaning among the Pakistani and Chinese communities in Newcastle upon Tyne. The study also assessed the needs and priorities of the mothers in these communities about support from health workers and other sources of advice on feeding.
Design
The study was carried out in two municipal wards of Newcastle upon Tyne, viz. Elswick and Fenham for the Pakistani community and the whole of Newcastle for the
Chinese community. A stratified sampling method was used
in which the sample was stratified according to their ethnic minority groups and a sample of 67 mothers from the Pakistani community was selected using a snowball sampling
method. Twenty mothers from the Chinese community were
selected using a simple random sampling method. The study was cross sectional using a structured questionnaire.
Setting
The setting was Newcastle upon Tyne in two wards in which a large proportion of the Pakistani community is concentrated. The whole of Newcastle upon Tyne was used as a sampling frame for the Chinese community which is dispersed throughout the city.
Main outcome
The rate and duration of breast feeding in the Pakistani and the Chinese communities, the main reasons for not breast feeding, the reasons for discontinuation of breast feeding, the mothers' knowledge and attitude towards breast feeding and weaning, the profiles of breast feeding/non breast feeding mothers and the profiles of mothers who wean early or late were determined.
Results
47.8% of the Pakistani and 30% of the Chinese mothers breast feed their children at birth. 3% of Pakistani and 5% of the Chinese mothers breast feed exclusively. All the Pakistani mothers used commercial weaning preparations while 41% of the Chinese mothers used home made preparations.
Conclusions
There is still a need to promote breast feeding in both the Pakistani and Chinese communities so that the rate and duration of breast feeding would be similar to those in their countries of origin which are Pakistan, where the breast feeding rate was 90 % at birth, and the People's Republic of China, where it was 75 % in the rural and 49 % in the urban areas
Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the Foreground
We provide a comprehensive evaluation of salient object detection (SOD)
models. Our analysis identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets
which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient
object in low clutter. The design bias has led to a saturated high performance
for state-of-the-art SOD models when evaluated on existing datasets. The
models, however, still perform far from being satisfactory when applied to
real-world daily scenes. Based on our analyses, we first identify 7 crucial
aspects that a comprehensive and balanced dataset should fulfill. Then, we
propose a new high quality dataset and update the previous saliency benchmark.
Specifically, our SOC (Salient Objects in Clutter) dataset, includes images
with salient and non-salient objects from daily object categories. Beyond
object category annotations, each salient image is accompanied by attributes
that reflect common challenges in real-world scenes. Finally, we report
attribute-based performance assessment on our dataset.Comment: ECCV 201
Metabolic Syndrome among Type-2 Diabetic Patients in Benghazi-Libya: A pilot study
ABSTRACTBackground: Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of three out of five conditions that are due to hyperinsulinemia: abdominal obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and/or low HDL),elevated blood pressure, and elevated plasma glucose. The syndrome is highly prevalent in patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus and often precedes the onset of hyperglycemia. It has been shown thatmetabolic syndrome is an independent clinical indicator of macro- and microvascular complications in diabetics. Aim and objectives: the aim of this pilot study was to estimate the frequency andcharacteristics of metabolic syndrome among type-2 diabetic patients in Benghazi. Patients and methods: This cross-sectional study involved 99 randomly selected adult patients with type-2diabetes mellitus. The patients were interviewed and examined, and their lipid profiles were checked 9-12 hours after overnight fasting. Metabolic syndrome was defined according to the criteria of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) and of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). Results: About 92% of the patients had the metabolicsyndrome according to ATP III criteria and 80.8% according to IDF criteria. Females were more affected, males with metabolic syndrome were significantly older, and females were significantly moreobese. No significant difference was observed between males and females regarding waistcircumference, HDL level and triglyceride level. The commonest and most important component ofmetabolic syndrome in the study group was low HDL. Conclusion: Metabolic syndrome is common among Libyans with type-2 diabetes mellitus, and it is significantly more common in females thanmales. The most significant predictor of metabolic syndrome in type-2 diabetic patients in Benghazi is low HDL
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Weakly- and Semi-Supervised Panoptic Segmentation
We present a weakly supervised model that jointly performs both semantic- and
instance-segmentation -- a particularly relevant problem given the substantial
cost of obtaining pixel-perfect annotation for these tasks. In contrast to many
popular instance segmentation approaches based on object detectors, our method
does not predict any overlapping instances. Moreover, we are able to segment
both "thing" and "stuff" classes, and thus explain all the pixels in the image.
"Thing" classes are weakly-supervised with bounding boxes, and "stuff" with
image-level tags. We obtain state-of-the-art results on Pascal VOC, for both
full and weak supervision (which achieves about 95% of fully-supervised
performance). Furthermore, we present the first weakly-supervised results on
Cityscapes for both semantic- and instance-segmentation. Finally, we use our
weakly supervised framework to analyse the relationship between annotation
quality and predictive performance, which is of interest to dataset creators.Comment: ECCV 2018. The first two authors contributed equall
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ZNF750 is a lineage-specific tumour suppressor in squamous cell carcinoma.
ZNF750 controls epithelial homeostasis by regulating epidermal-differentiation genes, a role underscored by its pathogenic mutations in esophageal squamous cell cancers (SCCs). However, the precise role of ZNF750 in SCC cell biology remains unclear. In this study, we report that ZNF750 is exclusively deleted, mutated and underexpressed in human SCCs, and low ZNF750 expression is associated with poor survival. Restoration of wildtype, but not mutant ZNF750 protein uniquely inhibited the malignant phenotypes of SCC cells both in vitro and in vivo. Notably, ZNF750 promoted the expression of a long non-coding RNA (TINCR), which mediated both cancer-inhibition and differentiation-induction effects of ZNF750. In addition, ZNF750 potently suppressed cell migration by directly inhibiting the transactivation of LAMC2. Together, our findings characterize ZNF750 as a crucial SCC-specific suppressor and uncover its novel anticancer-associated functions
Thermal Giant Gravitons
We study the giant graviton solution as the AdS_5 X S^5 background is heated
up to finite temperature. The analysis employs the thermal brane probe
technique based on the blackfold approach. We focus mainly on the thermal giant
graviton corresponding to a thermal D3-brane probe wrapped on an S^3 moving on
the S^5 of the background at finite temperature. We find several interesting
new effects, including that the thermal giant graviton has a minimal possible
value for the angular momentum and correspondingly also a minimal possible
radius of the S^3. We compute the free energy of the thermal giant graviton in
the low temperature regime, which potentially could be compared to that of a
thermal state on the gauge theory side. Moreover, we analyze the space of
solutions and stability of the thermal giant graviton and find that, in
parallel with the extremal case, there are two available solutions for a given
temperature and angular momentum, one stable and one unstable. In order to
write down the equations of motion, action and conserved charges for the
thermal giant graviton we present a slight generalization of the blackfold
formalism for charged black branes. Finally, we also briefly consider the
thermal giant graviton moving in the AdS_5 part.Comment: v1: 32 pages + 11 pages appendices, 13 figures, v2: typos fixed in
Sec.2 and other misprints, references adde
Self-assembled 2D Free-Standing Janus Nanosheets with Single-Layer Thickness
We report the thermodynamically controlled growth of solution-processable and free-standing nanosheets via peptide assembly in two dimensions. By taking advantage of self-sorting between peptide β-strands and hydrocarbon chains, we have demonstrated the formation of Janus 2D structures with single-layer thickness, which enable a predetermined surface heterofunctionalization. A controlled 2D-to-1D morphological transition was achieved by subtly adjusting the intermolecular forces. These nanosheets provide an ideal substrate for the engineering of guest components (e.g., proteins and nanoparticles), where enhanced enzyme activity was observed. We anticipate that sequence-specific programmed peptides will offer promise as design elements for 2D assemblies with face-selective functionalization
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Algorithms for outerplanar graph roots and graph roots of pathwidth at most 2
Deciding whether a given graph has a square root is a classical problem that
has been studied extensively both from graph theoretic and from algorithmic
perspectives. The problem is NP-complete in general, and consequently
substantial effort has been dedicated to deciding whether a given graph has a
square root that belongs to a particular graph class. There are both
polynomial-time solvable and NP-complete cases, depending on the graph class.
We contribute with new results in this direction. Given an arbitrary input
graph G, we give polynomial-time algorithms to decide whether G has an
outerplanar square root, and whether G has a square root that is of pathwidth
at most 2
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