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Resisting “Dirty Business”: Report from the Field of Social Exclusion in the Czech Republic
Before 1989-90, all housing in the Czech Republic de facto owned by the state was social in some sense. After 1990, rather than promoting social housing, the state largely decentralized, deregulated and privatized it, creating fertile ground for “a market of the poor”, and opening it to the predatory practices of the real estate entrepreneurs
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Predictors of Stunting, Wasting and Underweight among Tanzanian Children Born to HIV-Infected Women.
Children born to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women are susceptible to undernutrition, but modifiable risk factors and the time course of the development of undernutrition have not been well characterized. The objective of this study was to identify maternal, socioeconomic and child characteristics that are associated with stunting, wasting and underweight among Tanzanian children born to HIV-infected mothers, followed from 6 weeks of age for 24 months. Maternal and socioeconomic characteristics were recorded during pregnancy, data pertaining to the infant's birth were collected immediately after delivery, morbidity histories and anthropometric measurements were performed monthly. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards methods were used to assess the association between potential predictors and the time to first episode of stunting, wasting and underweight. A total of 2387 infants (54.0% male) were enrolled and followed for a median duration of 21.2 months. The respective prevalence of prematurity (<37 weeks) and low birth weight (<2500 g) was 15.2% and 7.0%; 11.3% of infants were HIV-positive at 6 weeks. Median time to first episode of stunting, wasting and underweight was 8.7, 7.2 and 7.0 months, respectively. Low maternal education, few household possessions, low infant birth weight, child HIV infection and male sex were all independent predictors of stunting, wasting and underweight. In addition, preterm infants were more likely to become wasted and underweight, whereas those with a low Apgar score at birth were more likely to become stunted. Interventions to improve maternal education and nutritional status, reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and increase birth weight may lower the risk of undernutrition among children born to HIV-infected women
The broadening of Fe II lines by neutral hydrogen collisions
Data for the broadening of 24188 Fe II lines by collisions with neutral
hydrogen atoms have been computed using the theory of Anstee & O'Mara as
extended to singly ionised species and higher orbital angular momentum states
by Barklem & O'Mara. Data have been computed for all Fe II lines between
observed energy levels in the line lists of Kurucz with log gf > -5 for which
the theory is applicable. The variable energy debt parameter Ep used in
computing the second order perturbation theory potential is chosen to be
consistent with the long range dispersion interaction constant C6 computed
using the f-values from Kurucz.Comment: Accepted for A&A. 5 pages, 5 figures, 2 electronic tables. Tables
will be available via CDS; presently also at
http://www.astro.uu.se/~barklem/papers/fe2_data.tar.g
Turbulent convection: comparing the moment equations to numerical simulations
The non-local hydrodynamic moment equations for compressible convection are
compared to numerical simulations. Convective and radiative flux typically
deviate less than 20% from the 3D simulations, while mean thermodynamic
quantities are accurate to at least 2% for the cases we have investigated. The
moment equations are solved in minutes rather than days on standard
workstations. We conclude that this convection model has the potential to
considerably improve the modelling of convection zones in stellar envelopes and
cores, in particular of A and F stars.Comment: 10 pages (6 pages of text including figure captions + 4 figures),
Latex 2e with AAS Latex 5.0 macros, accepted for publication in ApJ
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