BACKGROUND During severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Toronto, outpatient clinics at SickKids Hospital were closed to prevent further disease transmission. In response, a decision was made by the neonatal neuro-developmental follow up (NNFU) clinic staff to select patients with scheduled appointments to have a mail/telephone assessment using Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) ...

Objectives To describe neurodevelopmental outcomes at 2 years corrected age for children born alive at 22-26, 27-31, and 32-34 weeks' gestation in 2011, and to evaluate changes since 1997.Design Population based cohort studies, EPIPAGE and EPIPAGE-2.Setting France.Participants 5567 neonates born alive in 2011 at 22-34 completed weeks' gestation, with 4199 survivors at 2 years corrected age incl...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether there are two stable types of paranoia, 'poor me' and 'bad me', as described by Trower and Chadwick (1995), and whether beliefs about the deservedness of persecution are associated with psychological measures. METHODS In-patients experiencing persecutory delusions were assigned either to 'poor me' (PM) or 'bad me'(BM) groups, according to their rating of a pe...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological information on childhood disability provides the basis for a country to plan, implement and manage the provision of health, educational and social services for these vulnerable children. There is, however, currently no population-based surveillance instrument that is compatible with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), internat...

BACKGROUND The disruption of intercellular adhesions is an important component of the acquisition of invasive properties in epithelial malignancies. Alterations in the cell-cell adhesion complex, E-Cadherin/beta-Catenin, have been implicated in the oncogenesis of carcinomas arising from various anatomic sites and have been correlated with adverse clinico-pathologic parameters. In this study, th...

whenever Φ is such that this extends to a bounded operator on Lpr0, asq. Whenever a is of no importance we will omit it from the notation. We abbreviate by saying that WΦ is a TWH-operator. These operators (or rather, unitarily equivalent ones) also go under the name finite interval convolution operators, truncated Hankel operators or Toeplitz operators on the Paley-Wiener space. See e.g. [1, 2...

This study examines the relationship between internal–external locus of control, alexithymia, and adult attachment style. A population of 220 undergraduate medical students at the University of Vienna completed, in a single session, the Questionnaire of Competence and Control Orientation (FKK), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ). Results f...

This paper presents an improved clustering algorithm with Ant Colony optimization (ACO) based on dynamical pheromones. Pheromone is an important factor for the performance of ACO algorithms. Two strategies based on adaptive pheromones which improved performance are introduced in this paper. One is to adjust the rate of pheromone evaporation dynamically, named as  , and the other is to adjust t...