UNLABELLED BACKGROUND No large scale studies on breastfeeding onset patterns have been carried out in Spain. This work aims to explore the prevalence and the risk factors for not initiating breastfeeding in hospitals from Catalonia (CAT) and Valencia (V), two regions accounting approximately for 30% of the annual births in Spain. METHODS The prevalence of not initiating breastfeeding was c...

A 31-year-old single man (AB) sought neuropsychiatric consultation for treatment-resistant motor and vocal tics. He described himself expressing a total of 24 different tics, mainly facial twitches (eye blinking, raising eyebrows, mouth opening , lips licking, stereotyped grimacing) and inappropriate utterances (grunting, throat clearing, sniffi ng), since the age of 7. There appeared to be no ...

Conventional fracture data collection methods are usually implemented on planar surfaces or assuming they are planar; these methods may introduce sampling errors on uneven outcrop surfaces. Consequently, data collected on limited types of outcrop surfaces (mainly bedding surfaces) may not be a sufficient representation of fracture network characteristic in outcrops. Recent development of techni...

In the present work, multiway principal component analysis (MPCA) fault detection method based on multiblock statistics (MBS) is developed for handling uneven-length batch processes. The first step is to obtain equal length batch records (stage I) and the uneven-length stage (stage II). Stage I is divided into p-1 smaller even-length sub-blocks. Stage II is regarded as a sub-block. The uneven-l...

This article studies the particle temperature distribution depending on the laser radiation power and the particle’s trajectory and velocity. The uneven heating of particles moving in the laser radiation field is identified. The regimes of laser heating without melting, with partial melting, and with complete particle melting are considered.

Maldistribution of light is a potential cause of phototherapy failure in the neonate. Differences in light intensity over the surface can be measured with a radiometer as this detects the radiant energy impinging on the incubator mattress. An infant nursed on the front third of the mattress receives less than 40% of the maximal light incident on the centre of the mattress, and consequently degr...

MOOSE Crossing is a text-based virtual reality environment (or “MUD”) designed to be a constructionist learning environment for children ages 8 to 12. We performed a portfolio-style assessment of children’s programming accomplishments in this environment. Analysis of the data reveals uneven levels of achievement—some children accomplish a great deal but the majority learn little. We believe thi...