TEN STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL BREASTFEEDING PROGRAMME TO PROMOTE EARLY INITIATION AND EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING IN DR CONGO: A CLUSTER-RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding programme to promote early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding in DR Congo: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Background: Optimisation of breastfeeding practices could reduce high mortality rates in children younger than 5 years, but in DR Congo, despite near-universal breastfeeding initiation and nine of ten children still breastfeeding at 1 year of age, exclusivity remains a difficulty.We assessed the effect on breastfeeding outcomes of a short-cut imple

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Do Payout Policies and Channel Preferences of Banking Industries Shift during the Tranquil Periods? Evidence from Emerging Market

This study investigates whether the dividend policy (the decision to distribute funds, and the distribution channel preferences) of the banking sector of Pakistan is affected during any periods of domestic and global financial crisis.Using a sample of publically listed commercial banks, between the periods of 2002 till 2015, this research document

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Simple equations to predict concentric lower-body muscle power in older adults using the 30-second chair-rise test: a pilot study

Wesley N Smith1, Gianluca Del Rossi1, Jessica B Adams1, KZ Abderlarahman2, Shihab A Asfour2, Bernard A Roos1,3,4,5, Joseph F Signorile1,31Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences,2Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA; 3Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Bruce W Carter Department of Veter

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Development of high-throughput SNP-based genotyping in Acacia auriculiformis x A. mangium hybrids using short-read transcriptome data

Abstract Background Next Generation Sequencing has provided comprehensive, affordable and high-throughput DNA sequences for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) discovery in Acacia auriculiformis and Acacia mangium.Like other non-model species, SNP detection and genotyping in Acacia are challenging due to lack of genome sequences.The main objective

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