The authors analyzed Illinois vital records to determine the intergenerational birth weight patterns among the descendants of US-born and foreign-born White and African-American women. Among the descendants of the generation 1 US-born White women (n = 91,061), generation 3 females had a birth weight 65 g more than that of their generation 2 mothers (p < 0.0001); generation 3 infants had a 10% l...

For an admissible affine vertex algebra Vk(g) of type A, we describe a new family of relaxed highest weight representations of Vk(g). They are simple quotients of representations of the affine Kac-Moody algebra ĝ induced from the following g-modules: 1) generic Gelfand-Tsetlin modules in the principal nilpotent orbit, in particular all such modules induced from sl2; 2) all Gelfand-Tsetlin modul...

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a graph G is a function f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex v for which f(v) = 0, is adjacent to at least one vertex u for which f(u) = 2. The weight of a Roman dominating function f is the value f(V (G)) = ∑ v∈V (G) f(v). The Roman domination number of G, denoted by γR(G), is the minimum weight of an RDF on G. For a given graph,...

AIM To assess secular trends in birth weights of liveborn infants in Croatia from 1983 to 2003. METHODS Of a total of 959,591 liveborn infants in the study period, 384,367 were born in the prewar (1983-1989), 226,226 during the war (1991-1995), and 348 998 in the postwar (1996-2003) period. The birth weight of liveborn infants was assessed by 500 g weight groups on the basis of data provided ...

background studies on the association between maternal hemoglobin (hb) concentration and adverse pregnancy outcome have been inconsistent. many studies have shown the impact of hb concentration on pregnancy outcomes in adult women; however, it is not revealed in adolescent pregnant women. objectives the aim of this study was to examine the effect of hb concentration on birth outcomes in pregnan...

the amphiphilic graft copolymer using chitosan (cs) as hydrophilic segment and poly (l-lactic acid) (plla) as hydrophobic segment, was prepared through a protection-graft-de protection route. chitosan is a polysaccharide comprising of copolymers of glucosamine and n-acetyl glucosamine. chitosan is the deacetylated derivative of chitin, which is one of the most abundant natural polysaccharides c...

A function f :V (G) → {−1, 0, 1} defined on the vertices of a graph G is a minus total dominating function (MTDF) if the sum of its function values over any open neighborhood is at least one. An MTDF f is minimal if there does not exist an MTDF g:V (G) → {−1, 0, 1}, f = g, for which g(v) f (v) for every v ∈ V (G). The weight of an MTDF is the sum of its function values over all vertices. The mi...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L) is an annual plant that can bear fruit at the age of 4 years and if managed properly, it’s production last more than 25 years. Seeding a technique for multiplying plants by vegetative generative methods. The purpose this research to determine effect application cow urine POC cocopeat on growth cocoa seeds their interaction. This study used factorial randomized block de...