BACKGROUND The age at menarche in the Thai population has not been determined since 1997. This study recruited adolescents in Bangkok Metropolis to determine the age at menarche and its associations with health and socioeconomic status. METHODS This cross-sectional study used a two-step stratified sampling strategy to recruit 1,020 female students, aged 10-16 years, from schools in Dusit dist...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Mapping the Critical Gestational Age at Birth that Alters Brain Development in Preterm-born Infants using Multi-Modal MRI" (Wu et al., 2017) [1]. Brain immaturity at birth poses critical neurological risks in the preterm-born infants. We used a novel change-point model to analyze the critical gestational age at bir...

Yöntem ve Gereç: Kolorektal adenokarsinom tanısı almış 40 olgunun tümör dokusu ışık mikroskopik ve akım sitometrik olarak değerlendirildi. Dört farklı alandan (derin tümör dokusu, yüzeyel tümör dokusu, komşu normal mukoza ve metastatik lenf nodu) alınan doku örneklarinden akım sitometrik DNA ploidi analizi yapıldı. DNA kapsamları invazyon derecesi ve lenf nodu metastaz potansiyeli açısından kar...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth and efficiency-related traits Boer x Central Highland goats. Besides, genetic non-genetic factors affecting (Kleiber ratios) were identified. Data collected for nine years a general linear model procedure SAS employed detect significance fixed effects. overall least-squares mean live weight at birth, 3-, 6-, 9- 12 months age 2.52±0.01, 9.81...

On-farm data were collected to evaluate reproductive performance of Red Sokoto does reared under small-holder agro-pastoral production system within metropolitan Kano, semi-arid, Nigeria. The effects of age of dams, parity, litter size(s) and sex of kid(s) on pre-weaning growth rate were investigated. Data was obtained from semiintensively managed herds of twenty four households for a period of...

If there is any leader who thinks we are going back to where were a year ago, they kidding themselves.

A 20-month-old child was accidentally poisoned after biting through the bottom of a medicine container and ingesting the tablets inside. Consequently a study was carried out to determine the force required to fracture 20 randomly selected 25 and 32 ml polystyrene containers to see whether this exceeded the bite force of a child's jaw. Tests were performed at displacement rates of 0.5 and 10 cm/...