In this study, associations between maternal health and lifestyle in pregnancy and earlychildhood and caries experience in preschool children were explored. The study is based onthe Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study conducted by the Norwegian Institute ofPublic Health and on data from the Public Dental Services. A total of 1348 children werefollowed from pregnancy to a...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to assess intergenerational mother-daughter patterns of reproduction. METHODS In 1966, 12 055 pregnant women in Northern Finland, representing 96% of all births in the region, responded to a questionnaire in mid-gestation. In 1997-98, the 31-year-old daughters born from those pregnancies were sent a questionnaire and 4523 (80%) responded. Reproductio...

CASE When the pediatrician went to examine Jenny at 1 day of age in the hospital, she was not surprised to find a healthy, full-term neonate with a normal physical examination, including a normal developmental assessment. She was responsive and robust with wide open eyes that engaged her mother and the pediatrician. A review of the medical records revealed that both parents were significantly h...

We predicted that the proportion of suckling attempts rejected and terminated by the mother would be greater for female foals than male foals, based on parent offspring conflict theory and on the assumption that throughout the study, all zebra mothers were in good condition because of captivity. We presumed that an increasing rate of suckling terminated or rejected by a mother would indicate a ...

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reproduces by asymmetric cell division, or budding. In each cell division, the daughter cell is usually smaller and younger than the mother cell, as defined by the number of divisions it can potentially complete before it dies. Although individual yeast cells have a limited life span, this age asymmetry between mother and daughter ensures that the yeast strain...

Different initiatives are initiated to utilize ICT to maintain and develop democracy. Democracy models are developed to explain differences between different democracies. This paper reports from a case study where a webbased discussion board is developed and implemented. The findings indicate that politicians and citizens add support to different democracy models by their contributions to the w...

Data fusion is the final step of a typical data integration process, after schematic conflicts have been overcome and after duplicates have been correctly identified. We present the relational data fusion system FuSem, which uses schema mappings and information about duplicates to decide what to fuse, i.e., which tuples to merge into one. The aspect emphasized by the demo is how to fuse the dup...

In the demo, we demonstrate a mobile food recognition system with Fisher Vector and liner one-vs-rest SVMs which enable us to record our food habits easily. In the experiments with 100 kinds of food categories, we have achieved the 79.2% classification rate for the top 5 category candidates when the ground-truth bounding boxes are given. The prototype system is open to the public as an Android-...

Infant temperament, parenting factors, and aspects of mother-infant interactions have all been demonstrated to influence the early attachment relationship. It has been suggested since attachment is multiply determined, these factors should be evaluated cumulatively as predictors of attachment security. This study examined contributions of child and parent characteristics to infant attachment se...

AIM To investigate differences in the quality of mother-child interaction between preterm- and term-born children at age 5, and to study the association of mother-child interaction with sociodemographic characteristics and child disability. METHODS Preterm children (n = 94), born at <30 weeks' gestation and/or birth weight <1000 g, and term children (n = 84) were assessed at corrected age of ...