During a rare slow evening shift, the triage nurse notifies you that he has just put a sick infant into the resuscitation bay. The parents of the 2-month-old baby boy brought him to the emergency department because he “didn’t look right.” His father reports that for the past 24 hours, his son has been fussy and felt hot to the touch. The family initially attributed the boy’s condition to the re...

The nature of physical growth and development of children depends primarily upon the genetic endowments, nutritional status, psychosocial attitude and surrounding physical environmental conditions. School going children are the most important segment of the society who are affected by underand mal-nutrition. Good nutrition is an indispensable component of healthy life. Tribal children studying ...

BACKGROUND Because early life growth has long-lasting metabolic and behavioral consequences, intervention during this period of developmental plasticity may alter long-term obesity risk. While modifiable factors during infancy have been identified, until recently, preventive interventions had not been tested. The Intervention Nurses Starting Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT). St...

242 We would like to report on a 10 year old girl who was referred to a genetic study of schizophrenia in the Afrikaner population because of a high familial genetic loading. This patient subsequently at the age of 16 years was diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. The initial presentation at 10 years of age as well as the course of illness until the diagnosis of psychosis was made will be repor...

This paper is a discussion of The Churchill School, founded in 1972 as an alternative approach to serving the educatiOnal needs of children diagnosed as hyperactive, hyperkinetic, brain damaged, neurologically impaired, or suffering from minimal brain dysfunction. The school has a student body of 65, ranging between 6 and 13 years of age. The educational program attempts to be holistic in natur...

This monograph is written for the numerate nonspecialist, and hopes to serve three purposes. First it gathers mathematical material from diverse but related fields of order statistics, records, extreme value theory, majorization, regular variation and subexponentiality. All of these are relevant for understanding fat tails, but they are not, to our knowledge, brought together in a single source...

To the Editor—I read with interest the recent paper by Neveu and colleagues, ‘‘Cumulative Exposure to Cell-Free HIV in Breast Milk, Rather than Feeding Pattern per se, Identifies Postnatally Infected Infants’’ [1]. The paper not only provides new information showing that infants become infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) because of higher cumulative exposure to cell-free HIV throug...

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BACKGROUND Eating behaviors during childhood are related both to children's diet quality and to their weight status. A better understanding of the determinants of eating behavior during childhood is essential for carrying out effective dietary interventions. METHODS We assessed the contribution of genetic and environmental factors to variations in selected eating behaviors in early and late c...

BACKGROUND Entity recognition is one of the most primary steps for text analysis and has long attracted considerable attention from researchers. In the clinical domain, various types of entities, such as clinical entities and protected health information (PHI), widely exist in clinical texts. Recognizing these entities has become a hot topic in clinical natural language processing (NLP), and a ...