Preterm neonates are at higher risk of neurocognitive and neurosensory abnormalities. While numerous studies have looked at the effect of prematurity on brain anatomy, none to date have attempted to understand the relative pose of subcortical structures and to assess its potential as a biomarker of abnormal growth. Here, we perform the first relative pose analysis on a point distribution model ...

For some time now, it has been recognised that a major shift is occurring in the population age distributions of most motorised countries resulting in a growing number of older persons with an increasing need for mobility. It is expected that the mobility of older persons will become even more reliant on the motor vehicle as European countries in particular undergo transitions towards decentral...

Normalization of case data 2 The bottom right of Figure 1 shows a bar plot of the cumulative sum, for each age, of all 3 laboratory-confirmed pH1N1 in 2009; it does not take the age structure of the population 4 into account. We investigated the potential effects of age structure on the shape of the bar 5 plot. Figure 5 compares the total incidence across age (panel a) with per capita incidence...

MRAG Americas, P.O.B. 1410, Capitola, CA 95010, United States Center for Stock Assessment Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064, United States c Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, United States d Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Califor...

In making comparisons of the mortality of different occupational groups, it is essential to allow for differences in the age distributions of the groups. The principle of "standardizing" for age is long established. Each of the two conventional methods, direct and indirect, leads to a "Standardized Mortality Ratio" (S.M.R.) which is a weighted average of the ratios of the death rates, by ages, ...

Quantitative tests of historical hypotheses are necessary to advance our understanding of biogeographic patterns of species distributions, but direct tests are often hampered by incomplete fossil or historical records. Here we present an alternative approach in which we develop a dynamic model that allows us to test hypotheses about regional rates of taxon origination, extinction, and dispersal...

PURPOSE: There is evidence that internalized stigma significantly impacts the lives of people with severe mental illness. Nevertheless, there is little data on the prevalence of clinically significant internalized stigma. This study investigated the current prevalence and demographic correlates of significantly elevated levels of internalized stigma in two samples of people with severe mental i...

We present a formulation of branching and aging processes that allows age distributions along lineages to be studied within populations, and provides a new interpretation of classical results in the theory of aging. We establish a variational principle for the stable age distribution along lineages. Using this optimal lineage principle, we show that the response of a population's growth rate to...

This article highlights some of the causes underlying differences in disability allowances by sex and race. Among the causes are differences in labor-force patterns, the educational background, and the age distributions of the insured and applicant populations. More than half of the differences between the black and white applicants in the proportion of claims allowed is explained by difference...

in a cross-sectional study aiming to investigate the anatomical distribution of colorectal cancer in a six years period, patients file were studied and 150 patients with colorectal cancer were selected based on age, gender, place of residency, place of anatomical tumor and biological symptom. the findings indicated that 91(59.9) of patients had adenocarcinum, 54 (35.5) pulyp and 7 (4.6) had oth...