Sixth-generation (6G)-enabled massive network slicing is a strong enabler for the expected pervasive digitalization of the vertical market. In such a context, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven zero-touch network automation should present a high degree of scalability and sustainability, especially when deployed in live production networks wherein the collected monitoring datasets at different points are non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID). This paper presents a new cloud-native service-level agreement (SLA)-driven stochastic policy to guarantee a scalable and fast operation of constrained federated learning (FL)-based analytic engines that perform statistical slicelevel resource provisioning at RAN-Edge in a non-IID setup. Both simulated and cloud-native emulated scenarios are implemented to demonstrate the superiority of the solution in reducing SLA violation, convergence time and computation cost compared to different FL baselines, showcasing thereby a higher scalability.
Background: Hypertension in children is becoming a growing heath problem, with increasing prevalence.Objectives: To examine the relationship of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist hip ratio (WHR), waist stature ratio (WSR) and conicity index (CI) with blood pressure and to differentiate the screening potential of BMI, WC, WHR, WSR and CI for the presence of hypertension in children. Method:A school-based cross-sectional study was carried out in 2017 on 13-16 year old Bengali children in two schools (a boys' school and a girl's school) from Howrah city, West Bengal where stature (ST), weight (WT), WC and hip circumference (HC) were measured, and BMI, WHR, WSR and CI calculated. Schools were randomly selected from the list of affiliated schools under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. All 13-16 year old children from the two schools were recruited after obtaining informed consent from parents and assent from the children. Children with pre-existing serious illnesses and deformities were excluded from the study. Bio-social information was obtained using an open-ended schedule. Age was obtained from the school register. Hypertension was defined as age and stature adjusted systolic blood pressure (SBP) and/or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥95 th percentile. Partial correlations, logistic regressions and area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) were estimated to understand the relationship of adiposity measure with blood pressure and hypertension. The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest Funding: Research scholar is getting UGC fellowship from Visva-Bharati, Govt. of India Open Access Article published under the Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY LicenseResults: A total of 535 adolescents, comprising 282 boys and 253 girls aged 13-16 years, participated in this study. There was no statistically significant sex difference in age. Overall prevalence of hypertension was 8.5%. All adiposity measures were positively correlated with blood pressures. Logistic regression showed that BMI had the strongest associations with hypertension in both sexes. The AUC for BMI (0.82, 95% CI 0.751 to 0.895) was higher than those of other adiposity measures in assessing hypertension in boys. However, in girls, both BMI (AUC 0.75, 95% CI 0.644 to 0.856) and WSR (AUC 0.75, 95% CI 0.638 to 0.865) had similar higher assessment ability for hypertension compares to other measures.Conclusions: BMI had the highest odds ratio for hypertension, and was the best adiposity measure to assess hypertension.
Reproductive health plays a crucial role to maintain a healthy status of an individual. Hence, it is a vital part that an individual has to keep in mind. The term “Reproductive Rights and Reproductive History” was coined in the “International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)” held in 1994, and the term “Reproductive Health” was connoted as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and to its functions and processes”. Collected detailed on reproductive behaviour of an individual now known as “Reproductive history”; is defined as “An important aggregate factor in epidemiological studies of women’s health. The concept usually includes the number and timing of pregnancies and their outcomes, the incidence of breast feeding, and may include age of menarche and menopause, regularity of menstruation, fertility, gynaecological or obstetric problems, or contraceptive usage.” Researchers, epidemiologists, along with medical personnel have chronicled their findings and voiced their concerns in maternal and reproductive health in various platforms at national and international levels. Some of these papers are focused on this topic. In the present discussion an attempt has been made to evaluate the role of structural and social determinants on reproductive health. The systematic analysis might help to pinpoint the populations that seem to be lacking in awareness of the importance of this vital but often ignored part of health and thus there is a lag in the reproductive health services.
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