In developed countries, children with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) or born preterm (PT) tend to achieve catch-up growth. There is little information about height catch-up in developing countries and about height catch-down in both developed and developing countries. We studied the effect of IUGR and PT birth on height catch-up and catch-down growth of children from two cohorts of live...

this study was undertaken to investigate the effect of socioeconomic factors on fish catch around the lower ogun river in isheri-olofin area (downstream) and ishasi (upstream). two hundred and fifty (250) respondents were randomly sampled. the data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chisquare. it was found that a large percentage (74.4%) owned personal fishing craft.18% of the respon...

What has been your biggest error? Back at the beginning of this century, I used to say “I am going to spend the rest of my life trapped in a mitochondrion!”. This was because I was convinced that it was never going to be possible to retrieve even partial extinct genomes. Now, there are genomic sequences for many ancient humans and animals. This goes back to the famous Arthur C. Clarke quote: “W...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The study was performed to determine whether catch-up growth is associated with the development of insulin resistance and to explore serum endocrine markers associated with the metabolism of adipose tissue in a Chinese population born small for gestational age(SGA) SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We recruited 56 children born SGA with catch-up growth and 55 born without catch-up ...

Although contract reparations have been extensively studied in the context of deontic logics, there is not much literature using reparations in automatabased deontic approaches. Contract automata is a recent approach to modelling the notion of contract-based interaction between different parties using synchronous composition. However, it lacks the notion of reparations for contract violations. ...

We present a generalization of spatial power indexes able to overcome their main limitations, namely: i) the excessive concentration of power measures; ii) the too high sensitivity to players’ location in the ideological space. Voters’ propensity to support an issue is modeled via a random utility function with two additive terms: the deterministic term accounts for voters’ preference-driven/pr...

Abstract The effects of tori-line streamer types on seabirds avoidance were examined with the data from Japanese observer program in southern bluefin tuna fishery. Nominal catch rates (catch/1000 hooks) and per-capita catch rates (catch/1000 hooks/albatross abundance) were compared between “WCPFC type” streamers and “Light type” (polypropylene band) streamers. There was no significant differenc...