BACKGROUND It is unclear whether the high rates of low birth weight in South Asia are due to poor fetal growth or short pregnancy duration. Also, it is not known whether the traditional focus on preventing low birth weight has been successful. We addressed these and related issues by studying births in Kaniyambadi, South India, with births from Nova Scotia, Canada serving as a reference. METH...

We present a technique to automatically transform a voice application’s call flow, or interaction graph, into the set of application pages that encapsulate the call flow nodes and resources needed to run such application in a clientserver environment. Our technique, called NOVA, performs this automatic partition by making use of a set of cost functions that model the latencies associated with t...

We analyze the effects of founding conditions on the survival of new firms. We allow the effects of founding conditions to be transitory and estimate how long such effects last. Our findings indicate that founding effects are important determinants of exit rates. Moreover, in most cases, their effect on survival seems to persist without much of an attenuation for several years after the foundin...

This paper treats 134 new records of Coleoptera for the province of New Brunswick, Canada from the following 41 families: Gyrinidae, Carabidae, Dytiscidae, Histeridae, Leiodidae, Scarabaeidae, Scirtidae, Buprestidae, Elmidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Ptilodactylidae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Elateridae, Lampyridae, Cantharidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, Ptinidae, Cleridae, Melyridae, Monotom...

A new genus is erected on the basis of 2 new species of Oppiidae, Tuparezetes christineae and Tuparezetes philodendrus. These mites were collected from the foliage of 2 different indigenous plant species in New Zealand. Both species appear to be well adapted for an arboreal existence in that they possess a deep wax layer on the notogaster and prodorsum. Some trophic and humidity relationships a...

A 65-year-old male with known hypertension and hypercholesterolemia sought medical attention because of a 3-month history of skin swelling on his upper back. Histopathology and molecular techniques were employed and identified an organism in the Onchocerca genus. This represents a very uncommon example of cutaneous infection by a zoonotic Onchocerca species.

a Department of Marketing, University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19469, 701S. West Street, Arlington, TX 76019, United States b Department of Marketing, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada c Royal Bank Distinguished Professor of Marketing, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve West, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada d School of Business, ...

introduction in spite of multiple applications of bioactive glasses, these materials have not been evaluated yet for ridge augmentation. due to the large number of patients who need ridge augmentation and the benefits of nova bone, in comparison with other alloplasts, this study was fulfilled for evaluation of nova bone ability in ridge augmentation. methods the samples of this experimental stu...