Data on body weight of pure-bred kittens (Maine Coon, Norwegian Forest Cat, Birman, Persian, Siamese/Oriental Shorthair Cat) from birth (n 245) to 12 weeks of age (n 135) were obtained from breeders. Absolute birth weight (in g) was higher in larger breeds than in smaller breeds, whereas relative birth weight (in % of mature female weight) tended to be higher in smaller breeds (Maine Coon 115 g...

PURPOSE To identify differences in incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) between 2 birth weight categories within a cohort of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants in Malaysia. METHODS This was a prospective study of infants in the Special Care Nursery at the University of Malaya Medical Centre between 2003 and 2005. Outcome measures were presence or ab...

BACKGROUND To compare maternal and neonatal outcomes of term macrosomic and adequate for gestational age (AGA) pregnancies. MATERIAL/METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on all term singleton macrosomic (birth weight ≥4000 g) and AGA (birth weight >10th percentile and <4000 g) pregnancies delivered at our hospital between 2004 and 2008. Data collected included maternal age, gestatio...

During depopulation of a breeding unit within Swine Graphics Enterprises, extensive data were collected and used to examine relationships among ovulation rate, the pattern of prenatal loss, and placental and fetal development. Groups of Large White x Landrace females (n=447) were slaughtered between day 20-30, 50-55 or 85-90 of gestation, with approximately equal numbers of animals representing...

I . Three isoenergetic test diets containing 320, 430 and 530 g protein/kg, with (experimental) and without (control) inclusion of an anabolic steroid, ethylestrenol, were given to rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) of mean initial weight 27 g, for 60 d. 2. After 60 d, all trout groups were given an identical, steroid-free, commercial diet (410 g protein/kg) for a further 30 d, to observe withdraw...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association of birth weight with incident type 2 diabetes, and the possible mediating influence of obesity, in a large cohort of U.S. black women. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Black Women's Health Study is an ongoing prospective study. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and 95% CI for categories of birth weight (very low...

Vapor condensates of baseline gasoline (BGVC), or gasoline-blended with methyl tertiary butyl ether (G/MTBE), ethyl t-butyl ether (G/ETBE), t-amyl methyl ether (G/TAME), diisopropyl ether (G/DIPE), ethanol (G/EtOH), or t-butyl alcohol (G/TBA) were evaluated for reproductive toxicity in rats at target concentrations of 2000, 10,000, or 20,000mg/m(3), 6h/day, 7days/week. BGVC and G/MTBE were asse...

OBJECTIVE To compare the growth and pubertal development of very low-birth-weight (VLBW) children (birth weight <1500 g) and normal-birth-weight (NBW) children (birth weight >2499 g) to adolescence to determine if, and at what age, VLBW children "catch up." DESIGN Inception cohort study to age 14 years. SETTING Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. PATIENTS Eighty-six consecutive ...

In this article, only connected bipartite graphs G with a unique perfect matching M are considered. Let Gw denote the weighted graph obtained from G by giving weights to its edges using the positive weight function w : E(G)→ (0,∞) such that w(e) = 1 for each e ∈ M. An unweighted graph G may be viewed as a weighted graph with the weight function w ≡ 1 (all ones vector). A weighted graph Gw is no...

Let W (̟k) be the finite-dimensional irreducible module over a quantized affine algebra U ′ q(g) with the fundamental weight ̟k as an extremal weight. We show that its crystal B(W (̟k)) is isomorphic to the Demazure crystal B −(−Λ0 +̟k). This is derived from the following general result: for a dominant integral weight λ and an integral weight μ, there exists a unique homomorphism Uq(g)(uλ⊗ uμ) → V ...