1 Mário J. Costa, 2 Marc F. Moreira, 2 Jorge E. Morais, 1,3 Daniel A. Marinho, 1,2 António J. Silva and 1,4 Tiago M. Barbosa 1 Research Centre in Sports, Health and Human Development, Portugal 2 Department of Sport Sciences, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal 3 Department of Sport Sciences, University of Beira Interior, Portugal 4 National Institute of Education, Nanyang Tech...

B. C. BERGMAN,1 G. E. BUTTERFIELD,2 E. E. WOLFEL,3 G. D. LOPASCHUK,4 G. A. CASAZZA,1 M. A. HORNING,1 AND G. A. BROOKS1 1Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720; 2Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 95304; 3Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,...

The purpose of this research was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of living with changing expectations from the perspectives of women with high-risk pregnancies. The researchers' nursing theoretical perspective is the humanbecoming theory and the Parse research method was used. For the participants, living with changing expectations is foreboding disquietude arising with arduous...

We present a review of the follow-up observations carried out from observatories located in Spain; Calar-Alto, Izaña and Roque de Los Muchachos. It summarizes the observations carried out by our group for 27 GRBs occurred in the period 19992000, spanning from GRB990123 to GRB001007.

The objective of this study was to identify and analyze variables associated with shorter duration of breastfeeding in the Alto Jequitinhonha region, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This was a cross-sectional study, using retrospective data, in three cities of the region. All children up to 24 months of age were considered in the study, with a total sample of 450 children. Statistical analyses employed t...

OBJECTIVE To compare perinatal and short-term neonatal outcomes of adolescent, reproductive age, and advanced maternal age (AMA) pregnancies in a low-income region of İstanbul. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three hundred six adolescents, 301 reproductive age, and 303 AMA pregnant women who delivered in Süleymaniye Education and Research Hospital between January 1st 2007, and January 31st 2015, were r...

We decompose time-varying beta for stock into beta for continuous systematic risk and beta for discontinuous systematic risk. Brownian motion is assumed as nature of price movements in our modeling. Our empirical research is based on high-frequency data for stocks from Tehran Stock Exchange. Our market portfolio experiences 136 days out of 243 trading days with jumps which is a considerable rat...

Background & aim:  The most important risk factor for one’s sexual health is high-risk sexual behavior. Implementation of educational programs has been considered as one of the most crucial interventions in the prevention and treatment of these behaviors. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of an educational program on the knowledge and attitude of female sex workers toward prev...

background & aim:  high-risk pregnancies increase the risk of intensive care unit (icu) and neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) admission in mothers and their newborns. in this study, we aimed to identify the association between the recurrence of high-risk pregnancy and mothers’ previous experience of having an infant admitted to nicu. methods:we performed a cohort, retrospective study to compa...