OBJECTIVES Our goal was to describe the prevalence of any, occasional, and regular breast milk expression, mothers' reasons for expressing their milk, and sociodemographic factors associated with breast milk expression. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Breastfeeding mothers participating in the 2005-2007 Infant Feeding Practices Study II formed the cohort for these analyses, which were conducted amon...

Recognizing human age group automatically through facial image analysis has many applications, such as human computer interaction and multimedia communication. The aging process involves many factors such as the person’s gene, health, living style, living location and weather conditions. This paper presents an automatic human age group Recognition system based on human facial images. Features a...

Previous work has shown that versican, decorin and a catabolic fragment of decorin, termed decorunt, are the most abundant proteoglycans in human skin. Further analysis of versican indicates that four major core protein species are present in human skin at all ages examined from fetal to adult. Two of these are identified as the V0 and V1 isoforms, with the latter predominating. The other two s...

PURPOSE To test the hypothesis that in healthy human eyes the lamina cribrosa (LC) insertion into the pia mater increases with age. METHODS The optic nerve heads (ONHs) of donor eyes fixed at either 5 or 50 mm Hg of IOP were sectioned, stained, and imaged under bright- and dark-field conditions. A 3-dimensional (3D) model of each ONH was reconstructed. From the 3D models we measured the area ...

Shin-Lei Peng, Julie Dumas, Denise Park, Peiying Liu, Francesca Filbey, Carrie McAdams, Amy Pinkham, Bryon Adinoff, Rong Zhang, and Hanzhang Lu UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, University of Vermont College of Medicine, VT, United States, University of Texas Dallas, TX, United States, Southern Methodist University, TX, United Stat...

We live, according to some, in the century of biology, where we now understand ourselves in radically new ways as the insights of genomics and neuroscience have opened up the workings of our bodies and our minds to new kinds of knowledge and intervention. Is a new figure of the human, and of the social, taking shape in the 21st century? With what consequences for the politics of life today? And...

This paper proposes a human age estimation method using Ranking SVM method. Given a face image, most previous methods estimate the human age directly. However, the face images from the same age vary so much that it’s really a difficult problem to estimate the human age accurately. In this work, we adopt an alternative way to estimate the human age. First, the rank relationship of the ages is le...

PURPOSE To quantify age-related changes in products of lipid oxidation in human lenses and to relate these changes to membrane hydrocarbon chain structure. Deviation from a well-defined membrane-lipid composition and structure could result in alterations in membrane function and disruption of the homeostasis of the cell. METHODS Infrared spectroscopy was used to detect lipid compositional and...