It was shown that own (vs. other) race baby faces capture attention automatically whereas other race babies do not (Hodsoll et al., 2010). Other literature provided evidence of an innate preferential response to baby faces (baby schema effect). We investigated whether infant (vs. adult) faces automatically attracted attention (exogenous orienting), and whether this was modulated by ethnicity. 3...

Drug misuse is a major social, legal, and public-health challenge in the modern world. Drug misuse affects society, family, individual users and offsprings. Using illicit substances during pregnancy is common. A study in UK inner-city clinic demonstrated 16% of the women had taken one or more illicit substances. Screening newborns in a high-risk urban population of USA revealed 44% of 3010 babi...

The first stage of life, in the words of Jaques from As You Like It, is "first the infant mewling and puking in the nurse's arms . . ." Many normal babies vomit, but if the baby is essentially normal the vomiting is either infrequent or is of small amounts at the end of a feed. In fact, these latter small vomits are called regurgitation or possettingterms not precisely defined but which carry o...

OBJECTIVE To study the intrinsic fertility of the human oocyte. DESIGN A large retrospective study of natural cycle single embryo transfer (ET) IVF cycles. SETTING Private IVF clinic, university, and private hospital. PATIENT(S) Patients were enrolled consecutively over an 8-year period in a single ET natural cycle protocol. INTERVENTION(S) A total of 13,949 oocyte retrievals with natur...

The effect of super atmospheric O2 and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) on plant metabolism, organoleptic quality and microbial growth of minimally processed baby spinach was studied. Packaging film O2 transmission rates and initial levels of super atmospheric O2 in the packages significantly affected the changes of in-package atmospheres during storage, and consequently quality of baby spin...

Baby Skyrmions are topological solitons in a (2+1)-dimensional field theory which resembles the Skyrme model in important respects. We apply some of the techniques and approximations commonly used in discussions of the Skyrme model to the dynamics of baby Skyrmions and directly test them against numerical simulations. Specifically we study the effect of spin on the shape of a single baby Skyrmi...