1 Mário J. Costa, 2 Marc F. Moreira, 2 Jorge E. Morais, 1,3 Daniel A. Marinho, 1,2 António J. Silva and 1,4 Tiago M. Barbosa 1 Research Centre in Sports, Health and Human Development, Portugal 2 Department of Sport Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal 3 Department of Sport Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Portugal 4 National Institute of Education, Nanyang Tech...

B. C. BERGMAN,1 G. E. BUTTERFIELD,2 E. E. WOLFEL,3 G. D. LOPASCHUK,4 G. A. CASAZZA,1 M. A. HORNING,1 AND G. A. BROOKS1 1Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720; 2Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 95304; 3Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,...

The purpose of this research was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of living with changing expectations from the perspectives of women with high-risk pregnancies. The researchers' nursing theoretical perspective is the humanbecoming theory and the Parse research method was used. For the participants, living with changing expectations is foreboding disquietude arising with arduous...

We present a review of the follow-up observations carried out from observatories located in Spain; Calar-Alto, Izaña and Roque de Los Muchachos. It summarizes the observations carried out by our group for 27 GRBs occurred in the period 19992000, spanning from GRB990123 to GRB001007.

The objective of this study was to identify and analyze variables associated with shorter duration of breastfeeding in the Alto Jequitinhonha region, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This was a cross-sectional study, using retrospective data, in three cities of the region. All children up to 24 months of age were considered in the study, with a total sample of 450 children. Statistical analyses employed t...

OBJECTIVE To compare perinatal and short-term neonatal outcomes of adolescent, reproductive age, and advanced maternal age (AMA) pregnancies in a low-income region of İstanbul. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred six adolescents, 301 reproductive age, and 303 AMA pregnant women who delivered in Süleymaniye Education and Research Hospital between January 1st 2007, and January 31st 2015, were r...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether cervical favourability (measured by cervical length and the Bishop score) should inform obstetricians' decision regarding labour induction for women with gestational hypertension or mild pre-eclampsia at term. DESIGN A post hoc analysis of the Hypertension and Pre-eclampsia Intervention Trial At Term (HYPITAT). SETTING Obstetric departments of six university and...

Infants and toddlers represent an age range at high-risk of injuries and accidental deaths since their lack of skill makes them unable to avoid potentially dangerous situations present in their environment [1-5]. In fact, an environment where infants sleep is an example of a potentially hazardous situation that may result in accidental death caused by strangulation [2,4]. Although such accident...