A pooled prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Abstract Background Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) remains a global public health problem.South Africa is estimated to have the highest recorded prevalence of FASD.However, no study has systematically evaluated Toy the available prevalence studies to provide estimates that may facilitate effective planning and delivery of prevention and ma

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Addressing Urban Sprawl from the Complexity Sciences

Urban sprawl is nowadays a pervasive topic that is subject of a contentious debate among planners and researchers, who still fail to reach consensual solutions.This paper reviews controversies of the sprawl debate and argues that they owe to a failure of the employed methods to appraise its complexity, especially the notion that urban form emerges

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Properties of blue-stained wood

Discoloration Sticker Pack of wood is frequently caused by blue-stain fungi.Among them Aureobasidium pullulans and Sclerophoma pithyophila are reported as the most important staining organism.In previous researches, it was generally considered that blue-stain fungi do not influence mechanical properties.However, there were some opposite results pub

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