Environmentally cued plasticity in hatching timing is widespread in animals. As with later life-history switch points, plasticity in hatching timing may have carryover effects that affect subsequent interactions with predators and competitors. Moreover, the strength of such effects of hatching plasticity may be context dependent. We used red-eyed treefrogs, Agalychnis callidryas, to test for la...

Our knowledge about renal function in the first two days of human life is meagre. Most of it is due to Thomson (1944, 1947, 1949), Smith, Yudkin, Young, Minkowski and Cushman (1949) and Hansen and Smith (1953). Dean and McCance (1947) measured the inulin, diodone and creatinine clearances of four children aged 2 days, and other investigators have included one or two children under 3 days old in...

A combined psychological autopsy and narrative approach was used to study the completed suicides of 67 Israeli soldiers. Three issues were addressed. First, the authors examined the typology of the life narratives of suicide completed during active army duty. Second, focusing on the last 3 weeks of the soldiers' lives, they sought to examine their triggers for suicide, emotional state of mind, ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this analysis was to describe the presence and timing of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders for imminently dying patients in VA Medical Centers, and to examine factors associated with these processes. METHODS Data on DNR orders in the last 7 days of life were abstracted from the medical records of 1,069 veterans who had died in one of six VA hospitals in 2005. RESULTS...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy ofthe bcg vaccine in the first 60 days of life in inducing delayed-type hypersensitivity (dth), and to evaluate the reliability of the mantoux test in comparison with the bcg test for detecting dth. a study was done in 885 healthy, well nourished infants 5 to 7 months old from rural areas of the urumieh province, who received bcg immunizati...