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 ...

asthma is the major chronic respiratory inflammatory disease in all ages. the validity and predictability of revised jones morbidity index (jmi) as a simple and practical tool for asthma evaluation morbidity has not yet been tested in iran. this study aimed to evaluate the predictability and validity of a revised jmi in northern iran. as a one-year follow up study, 210 adult asthmatic patients ...

using the gaussian 2003 software and mp2/ 6–311 ++ g** method for he: he, ne:ne andmp2/6-31g method for ar: ar, kr: kr and hf/sto-3g method for xe: xe, the optimizedinteraction energies between two like atoms of rare gases (he, ne, ar, kr and xe) as a functionof the distances between the centers of two considered atoms were evaluated and the resultswere interpreted according to the lennard – jo...