One in ten babies worldwide are born preterm every year; over 90% of these are born in low and middle-income countries such as Brazil.1 Improvements in neonatal intensive care and increased survival of preterm infants has led to an increasing focus on the long-term impacts of preterm birth, specifically with respect to metabolic outcomes such as bone mineral density (BMD) and timing and extent ...

The current study explored the influence of birth order and family size on academic achievement, divergent thinking (DT), problem finding (PF) with a sample 156 gifted male female Arab students (M= 12.21 years, SD= 1.75). Regarding it was found that first-borns possessed higher grade point averages (GPAs) than did other-born children. Family also related to achievement-participants from smaller...

Survival rates have greatly improved in recent years for infants of borderline viability; however, these infants remain at risk of developing a wide array of complications, not only in the neonatal unit, but also in the long term. Morbidity is inversely related to gestational age; however, there is no gestational age, including term, that is wholly exempt. Neurodevelopmental disabilities and re...

Johannes Holtfreter [6] made important discoveries about the properties of the organizer [7] discovered by Hans Spemann [8]. Although he spent much time away from the lab over many years, he was a productive researcher. His colleagues noted that the time he spent away helped revitalize his ideas. He is credited with the development of a balanced salt medium to allow embryos to develop; the disc...

We analyze the relationship between birth order, parental health investment and children's using administrative data from Austria. show that later-born children have better endowments at birth. They are less likely born preterm or with a low weight, hospitalized for perinatal conditions. also find significant order differences in early childhood. Later-born to participate preventive medical scr...

A Software-Process-Off-The-Shelf (SPOTS) is a software process which can be bought and used in a software developing organization. Choosing the SPOTS that fulfills the needs of an organization is a difficult task and errors may have serious and expensive consequences. This paper introduces the concept of SPOTS, discusses the problem of their choice and provides the requirements and the general ...

In developing countries, low birth weight (LBW) is a major public health problem. Seventy-two percent of low birth weight infants in developing countries are born in Asia, with 40 per cent being born in India [1]. Fetal growth restriction or intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is a condition where the fetus fails to achieve its intrinsic growth potential, due to anatomical or functional diso...