OBJECTIVE To estimate the relationship between cord blood bisphenol A (BPA) levels and anogenital measurements in healthy newborns. METHODS Pregnancy and birth history, together with body mass and length data, anogenital measurements, penile measurements and cord blood samples were obtained from healthy newborns. Cord blood concentration of BPA was analyzed by sandwich enzyme-linked immunosor...

BACKGROUND Triclosan (TCS) is widely used as an antibacterial agent in consumer products such as hand soap and toothpaste, and human exposure is widespread. TCS is suspected of having endocrine-disrupting properties, but few human studies have examined the developmental effects of prenatal TCS exposure. OBJECTIVES We prospectively examined associations between prenatal TCS exposure and anthro...

The present paper reports a retrospective cohort of preterm infants admitted to our hospital who delivered outside the normal geographical catchment area of the mother's local level three neonatal nursery. Nineteen mothers had 21 preterm infants (23.1-34.9 weeks, 500-2330 g born) where 14 infants required ventilation (median 57 h, range 3-428). Eighteen survivors had a median length of stay of ...

In this note we give a direct proof of the Gaussian integrability of distance function as μe (x,x0) <∞ for some δ > 0 provided the Lyapunov condition holds for symmetric diffusion operators, which answers a question in Cattiaux-Guillin-Wu [6, Page 295]. The similar argument still works for diffusions processes with unbounded diffusion coefficients and for jump processes such as birth-death chai...

The known measurements for the determination of body proportions cannot be used practically in the neonate. The ratio of crown-rump distance to total length appears the most useful index for objective evaluation of disorders that influence body proportions in the neonate. Normal standards for this ratio in newborn infants from 27 to 41 weeks' gestation are presented in relation to gestational a...

We investigate disease extinction in an epidemic model described by a birth-death process. We show that, in the absence of vaccination, the effective entropic barrier for extinction displays scaling with the distance to the bifurcation point, with an unusual critical exponent. Even a comparatively weak Poisson-distributed random vaccination leads to an exponential increase in the extinction rat...

Measurements of human brain function in children are of increasing interest in cognitive neuroscience. Many techniques for brain mapping used in children, including functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), use probes placed on or near the scalp. The distance between the scalp and the br...

a set $s$ of vertices in a graph $g=(v,e)$ is called a total$k$-distance dominating set if every vertex in $v$ is withindistance $k$ of a vertex in $s$. a graph $g$ is total $k$-distancedomination-critical if $gamma_{t}^{k} (g - x) < gamma_{t}^{k}(g)$ for any vertex $xin v(g)$. in this paper,we investigate some results on total $k$-distance domination-critical of graphs.