Maternal Stressful Life Events and Risks of Birth Defects

Preterm Birth and Stressful Life Events

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Birth Defects: Risks and Consequences

included a review of some notable empirical evidence, analyzed and related in a wellthought out epidemiologic fashion. While the text is necessarily complex in parts, its appeal should not be limited; there is something in it to interest everyone. Perhaps a more rational and less zealous attitude concerning the use of marijuana, and its impact on us all, will accompany a widespread reading of t...

Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (psles) — a New Stressful Life Events Scale for Use in India

Using an open ended question along with Holme's and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Schedule on a sample of two hundred adult subjects, a suitable scale of stressful life events experienced by the Indian population was constructed and standardized for two time spaces, that is, last one year and life time. Analysis of various demographic variables for this population revealed no differences on...

Stressful life events and childhood illness.

The use of DNA probes to monitor minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. A. The polymerase chain reaction: a new tool for the detection of minimal residual disease in hae-matological malignancies. Tournay 0, et al. Detection of minimal disease in hematopoietic malignancies of the B lineage by using third-complimentarity-determining region (CDR-III) specific probes. ...