To study the keratometry of Indian pediatric eyes, effect speculum on reading, concordance hand held and automated unilateral bilateral cataract IOL power calculation. This was conducted as a cross- sectional observational 101 eyes children in age range 41 post-conceptional weeks to 144 months. All cooperative patients were subject followed by using keratometer with without speculum. Hand docum...

Internet phenomena like Facebook or Twitter hold great potential for companies. The 21st century’s social networks are platforms for the (semi) public exchange of information that is produced and consumed by users alike. For an organisation, taking an active part in these conversations can support the efforts to gain more trust, co-shape the organisation’s image and obtain knowledge from user-g...

Preterm birth represents a high risk of neurodevelopmental disabilities when associated with white-matter damage. Recent studies have reported cognitive deficits in children born preterm without brain injury on MRI at term-equivalent age. Understanding the microstructural and metabolic underpinnings of these deficits is essential for their early detection. Here, we used diffusion-weighted imagi...

BACKGROUND Fluid restriction has been reported to improve survival of infants without chronic lung disease (CLD), but it remains unknown whether it reduces CLD in a population at high risk of CLD routinely exposed to antenatal steroids and postnatal surfactant without increasing other adverse outcomes. AIM To investigate the impact of fluid restriction on the outcome of ventilated, very low b...

Immunoreactive expression of three cell death markers was quantitatively analysed in the human infant brainstem medulla. We assessed active caspase-3, TUNEL and single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) in a cohort of 92 infants, and analysed for: (i) variations in the immunoreactive expression with development; (ii) comparison of infants diagnosed with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS, n = 67) to infa...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to estimate the effect on the fetal development of high doses of prescription drugs taken as a suicide attempt during pregnancy. METHODS Pregnant women were identified among self-poisoned females in the toxicological inpatient clinic in Budapest between 1960 and 1993. Congenital abnormalities, intrauterine development based on birth weight and post-concepti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE With regards to the importance of women's beliefs in improving pregnancy outcomes, this study was performed to determine the perceived internal control on future pregnancy outcomes and its related factors in women who participated in pre-marital counseling. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional study, women's perceived internal control was investigated. The study p...

BACKGROUND We describe participation rates in a special interconceptional care program that addressed all commonly known barriers to care, and identify predictors of the observed levels of participation in this preventive care service. METHODS A secondary analysis of data from women in the intervention arm of an interconceptional care clinical trial in Philadelphia (n = 442). Gelberg-Andersen...

In life science, deeper understanding of biomolecular systems is acquired by computational modeling and analysis. For the modeling of several kinds of reaction networks, e.g. signaling pathways, information on intracellular space, like the locations and motions of molecules, has to be taken into account. In this paper, we introduce Labeled SpacePi, an extension of the π-calculus, in order to mo...