This study contributes to the understanding of how social mortality patterns are reproduced across generations by documenting associations of women's marital status at childbirth in the beginning of last century with selected health indicators across three subsequent generations of their offspring, and by highlighting a special set of plausible mechanisms linked to this particular event in hist...

OBJECTIVE To assess level of contamination of neckwear worn by gynaecologists and obstetricians during routine working week. DESIGN Multicentre randomised double blind crossover trial. Participants wore the same conventional ties for three days in one week and bow ties for the same period in second week. SETTING Two teaching and three district general hospitals in the midlands, Wales, and n...

This study aimed to investigate movement accuracy of experienced cellists, the statistical properties of their note sequences during a reciprocal task, and the degree to which these movement characteristics depend on auditory feedback. Nine experienced cellists were asked to shift alternately between two notes using only their index finger to make contact with the string and fingerboard. Shifti...

Bow shape has been recognized as an important factor influencing the seakeeping performance and added resistance of ships. This paper presents a numerical comparative study on model ships with ‘X-bow’ wave-piercing monohull in regular head waves using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. Different wave heights, wavelengths forward speeds are considered systematic investigation order to ...

brucellosis is the most widespread zoonotic infection in the world. the disease is endemic in countries bordering the mediterranean sea. it is an important re-emerging infectious disease. this disease is closely associated with the evolution of mankind as an agrarian society linked to the practice of shepherding and popularization of animal husbandry. the patients with this disease are typicall...

PURPOSE: This study examined the effect of anticipatory control strategies on stable upright posture and consistency in archery performance among skilled elite archers.METHODS: Nine players participated this performed repeated shooting trials under two different conditions: clicker non-clicker. In condition, archers shot response to signals, whereas non-clicker they used an strategy determine t...