Despite common belief, Baby Boomers form a sizable population of gamers. Paying attention to how this generation experiences a game can help companies that target this group of users increase their market share. To address this need, this study examines Baby Boomers’ reaction to a new way of manipulating objects in a game, namely with their eyes. In particular, the study focuses on testing the ...

In 1908 the first case of Salmonella meningitis was reported by Ghon, and since then 150 cases have been described (Metcalfe and Wiswell, 1950), of which 15 were due to S. typhi-murium; only two of these infants were definitely recorded as being under 1 month old at the time of infection. Debre and Mozziconacci (1949) record two cases of Salmonella meningitis one of which was due to S. typhi-mu...

Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) in concentrations from 48 to 32 500 cells per gram of powdered infant milk were found in 18 out of 51 investigated samples (35%) in this study. More than 10 000 cells per gram were present in four samples (7.8%). Such concentrations mean that one package of milk contains 5 million MAP cells, which are ingested by a bottle-fed baby over the cours...

Premature rupture of the fetal membranes is associated with neonatal morbidity and mortality, and correct diagnosis is important. Generally diagnosis is simple, but in difficult cases obstetricians have used several techniques to differentiate between leaking liquor and urinary incontinence, including injecting dye into the amniotic cavity. The original report of this technique used Evans's blu...

Out of 308 isolates of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from specimens processed at the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo 66 (21.5%) were resistant to methicillin. A significantly higher proportion of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were isolated from special care units, namely the Premature Baby Unit (PBU) and the Plastic Surgery Unit (PSU) when compared...

Trichomonas vaginalis (Donne) is a flagellate protozoon, commonly found in this country and considered to be a cause of purulent vaginal discharge. It is a common finding in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics. Sexual intercourse is believed to be the principal, but not exclusive, mode of infection, the male partner usually remaining free of symptoms. Infection by Trichomonas vaginalis i...

Condition monitoring of premature babies in intensive care can be carried out using a Factorial Switching Linear Dynamical System (FSLDS) [15]. A crucial part of training the FSLDS is the manual calibration stage, where an interval of normality must be identified for each baby that is monitored. In this paper we replace this manual step by using a classifier to predict whether an interval is no...

www.ecoNomicmobility.org september 2012 As life expectancy increases and retirement income systems evolve, households face an enormous challenge in ensuring a secure retirement. Working more years is often hailed as the best way to increase retirement incomes, especially in the wake of the Great Recession. But some fear that delayed retirement by Baby Boomers reduces the job opportunities for y...

The medical measurements for preterm babies manifest instabilities because of their under-developed biological systems. These physiological instabilities raise the question of whether a preterm baby is simply premature or is likely to develop long-term health complications. Because instabilities are of concern, useful information about the health state of preterm infants can be expected to be c...

In December 1962, in the premature nursery of this hospital, a 7-hour-old baby was found dead in a pool of blood which had leaked from the umbilical cord. The baby weighed 4 lb. (1,810 g.) at birth and was under hourly observation by the nursing staff. The cord had been shortened five hours after birth by an experienced staff midwife who had tied a single commercial umbilical tape around it abo...