The objective of this study was to determine if mothers' retrospective reports about events in their pregnancies with twins are reliable and stable. Six hundred and twenty-four mothers completed psychiatric interviews about their twins. These interviews also contained questions about the mothers' pregnancies, the perinatal period, and the child's early development. The mothers reported first on...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to provide the unsophisticated reader with an introduction to modelling issues of crime and punishment; and, second, it seeks to introduce a noncooperative analytical framework as the basic modelling technique to analyze this type of issues. To those purposes, I introduce simple model from which important policy recommendations follow from t...

BACKGROUND To investigate whether a history of prior cardiovascular disease (CVD) is associated with severe hypoglycemia (SH) in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study from January 2001 to December 2012 with a median follow-up time of 9.5 years (5,814 person-years). Patients aged 25 to 75 years with type 2 diabetes and without chronic kidney disease wer...

This article explores the use of mediated communication among Norwegian children aged between 10 and 12 years.The analysis is based on a survey and 88 qualitative interviews with 130 children about their use of different types of communication technologies.This allowed a sketch of connections between the nature of the childrens’ social relationships, mediated content and various means of commun...

This white paper proposes a new holistic approach to analysis of the national and global development that builds on advances in the mathematics of complexity, methods of probabilistic risk assessment, and techniques for fast computation and interactive simulation. Integrated into a composite analysis technique, these advances raise an unprecedented new possibility for projecting the future impl...

EPPO BulletinVolume 51, Issue 3 p. 624-624 CORRIGENDUMFree Access Corrigendum - PM 5/8 (1) Guidelines on the phytosanitary measure ‘Plants grown under complete physical isolation’ This article corrects following: Volume 46Issue 3EPPO Bulletin pages: 421-423 First Published online: November 3, 2016 published: 16 December 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/epp.12821AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permiss...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the annual risk of infection with tubercle bacilli in the northern zone of India. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional tuberculin survey was conducted among children aged 1-9 years who lived in a sample of villages and urban blocks of six selected districts in a defined north zone of India. A two-stage cluster sampling method was used to select rural and urban clust...