We have studied risk factors for perinatal asphyxia among babies fulfilling the inclusion criteria and compared them with matched controls. Maternal or antepartum factors included were maternal age, gestational age, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and antenatal clinic (ANC) visits less than 3. Intrapartum factors included malpresentation, mode of delivery, meconium stained amniotic fluid, Chori...

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify factors related to the prevalence of caries in 12-year-old schoolchildren. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out using a representative sample (n = 1217) of the population of 12-yearold schoolchildren in Galiza (northwest Spain). Independent variables were measured through a questionnaire, and dependent variables were determined throug...

to evaluate the genetic diversity in sardari bread wheat landrace, purification and selection of lines with good agronomic traits, were carried out for ten cropping seasons (1995-2006) in maragheh and six other dryland agricultural research stations. one hundred and six individual spikes were selected among sardari landrace in the first phase of study (1995- 2000). results of morph-physiologica...

L. Rhoades and R. Eisenberger (2002) reported the meta-analytic finding of a highly statistically significant relation between perceived organizational support (POS) and performance but concluded that the reviewed studies’ methodology allowed no conclusion concerning the direction of the association. To investigate this issue, the authors assessed POS and extra-role performance 2 times, separat...