Social circumstances and cultural beliefs influence maternal nutrition, breastfeeding and child feeding practices in South Africa:

Maternal and child undernutrition remain prevalent in developing countries with 45 and 11% of child deaths linked to poor nutrition and suboptimal breastfeeding, respectively. This also has adverse effects on child growth and development. The study determined maternal dietary diversity, breastfeeding and, infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and identified reasons for such behavior in five rural communities in South Africa, in the context of cultural beliefs and social aspects

Wide-band mobile radio channel characterisation in UHF band for residential suburban area

This paper describes wideband measurements of the 2.38 GHz radio channel in a residential suburban area of Malvern, UK. Data in the form of the time variant complex channel impulse responses have been recorded and discrete multipath components extracted. The first-order statistics of these components, including exceedance curves of propagation path number and RMS delay spread, are presented and compared with those derived from similar measurement campaigns reported elsewhere in the literature