BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease may have its origins in utero, but the influence of in utero growth on microvascular structure in children is unknown. We hypothesized that poor in utero growth is associated with narrower arteriolar caliber, which may help explain the established association of low birth weight with hypertension and cardiovascular disease in adulthood. METHODS AND RESULTS We...

Marine biology,marine ecology,Phytoplankton, marine algae, zooplankton, nekton, benthos, corals and coral reefs, ecology, zoogeography systematics, primary production experimental work on ecosystem including energy flow at different trophic levels, population dynamics theoretical models, recycling of matter, influence environmental factors metabolic activity, microbiology, mariculture propagati...

Chronic toxicity test was conducted for 28 days with post larval stages of Penaeus indicus to arsenic for studying the changes associated with growth pattern, specifying the length, weight and condition factor. Arsenic exposures produced significant (P < 0.05) effect in terms of length, weight and deteriorated the condition factor of the test animal. Differentiation in relation between the cond...

It is shown that the parameters of a linear code over Fq of length n, dimension k, minimum weight d and maximum weight m satisfy a certain congruence relation. In the case that q = p is a prime, this leads to the bound m ≤ (n−d)p−e(p−1), where e ∈ {0, 1, . . . , k − 2} is maximal with the property that ( n− d e ) 6= 0 (mod pk−1−e). Thus, if C contains a codeword a length n then n ≥ d/(p− 1) + d...

BACKGROUND Existing guidelines for optimal positioning of endotracheal tubes in neonates are based on scanty data and relate to measurements that are either non-linear or poorly reproducible in sick infants. Foot length can be measured simply and rapidly and is related to a number of external body measurements. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relation of foot length to nasotracheal length in direc...