Birth defect, abnormal condition of the newborn, developmental delay or disability and low birth weight are four major infant morbidity outcomes. Most studies have focused on assessment of the effects of risk factors on each of these outcomes or of the relationship among these outcomes or both. Little attention has been paid to the development of a composite index, which is a summary construct ...

Background: Differences in body composition are extensively investigated in subjects with COPD as low muscle mass was independently associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Also cardio-vascular co-morbidity is often reported in COPD and the contribution of fat mass in COPD related co-morbidity is gaining interest. We hypothesized that the prevalence of low muscle mass and high fat mas...

The dependence of some thermodynamic properties of spin-polarized liquid 3He such as velocity of sound, adiabatic index, isentropic compressibility and temperature on the spin polarization has been investigated along different isentropic paths. The Lennard-Jones potential has been used in our calculations. It has been found that for higher values of entropy, the spin polarization has greate...

11. Burdon-Jones D, Gibbons K. The Skin Cancer Quality of Life Impact Tool (SCQOLIT): a validated health-related quality of life questionnaire for non-mBCC skin cancer. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2013;27(9):1109-1113. 12. Matthews BA, Rhee JS, Neuburg M, Burzynski ML, Nattinger AB. Development of the facial skin care index: a health-related outcomes index for skin cancer patients. Dermatol S...

The projection pursuit index defined by a sum of squares of the third and the fourth sample cumulants is known as the moment index proposed by Jones and Sibson [14]. Limiting distribution of the maximum of the moment index under the null hypothesis that the population is multivariate normal is shown to be the maximum of a Gaussian random field with a finite Karhunen-Loève expansion. An approxim...

ratio of the index finger (2D) to the ring finger (4D) (2D:4D; Manning, Scutt, Wilson, & Lewis-Jones, 1998), along with a hypothesis about the origin of these, has spurred ongoing research interest in psychology and adjacent disciplines. Because this sex effect is determined in utero and 2D:4D shows little plasticity thereafter, 2D:4D has been suggested as an indirect marker for the organizatio...

background: the presence of small intestine in the radiation field during pelvic cancers treatment causes an interruption in radiotherapy. a non-invasive method was developed to exclude small intestine during conventional radiotherapy. materials and methods: the incidence of the radiation therapy interruption is highly dependent upon the area of the small intestine included in the portals and i...

Recent research has focused on studying the patterns in the digits of closely followed stock market indeces (see, e.g., Ley and Varian (1994) and Koedijk and Stork (1994)). In this paper, we find that the series of one-day returns on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average Index (djia) and the Standard and Poor’s Index (s&p) reasonably agrees with Benford’s law and, therefore, belongs to the family of...