This study explores the consequences of the housing price bubble and its collapse for the wealth of older households. We utilize micro survey data to follow the rise in home values to 2007, observing which households enjoyed home price appreciation and how they responded in terms of equity withdrawal. We then use the SCF survey data on wealth holdings from 2007 in combination with national pric...

In this paper, we show a general way to interpret the infrastructure of a global field of arbitrary unit rank. This interpretation generalizes the prior concepts of the giant-step operation and f -representations, and makes it possible to relate the infrastructure to the (Arakelov) divisor class group of the global field. In the case of global function fields, we present results that establish ...

In this study mothers were told “your baby can’t hear you,” and their interactions recorded in either (i) a hearing condition in which infants could hear their mothers or (ii) a hearing loss condition in which infants could not hear their mothers. It was found that pitch levels of speech were similar in both conditions, but that there was vowel hyperarticulation in the hearing, but not the hear...

Blood loss during Caesarean section has been measured in 121 patients using a haemoglobin dilution method. The results have been analyzed in an attempt to determine the importance on blood loss of age, parity, previous Caesarean section, placental site, size of baby, length of operation, and surgical experience. The only statistically significant factors increasing blood loss were (a) multipara...

OBJECTIVE To establish the reliability and effectiveness of screening for hearing loss by brainstem auditory evoked potential testing in high risk neonates. DESIGN Seven year investigation of newborn babies admitted to a special care baby unit and monitored through a regional children's audiology unit. SETTING Special care baby unit and children's audiology department, Belfast. SUBJECTS 4...

Aim. To compare targeted neonatal hearing screening (TNHS) and universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) since many developing countries, including Egypt, implement selective screening for high-risk neonates. Methods. 150 neonates were assessed; 50 full terms consecutively admitted to the well-baby nursery and 100 neonates consecutively admitted to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Ain Sha...