Risk Factors for Child Mortality in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Population-Based Data by Michael N. K. Babayara, Bright Addo

“…The results revealed the main causes of death in the area to include malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, respiratory infections, and malnutrition. Mother’s age at birth, mother’s educational level, and mother’s household socioeconomic status were significantly related to child mortality. …”
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MEMAHAMI HAKIKAT DAN KARAKTERISTIK PEMBELAJARAN BIOLOGI DALAM UPAYA MENJAWAB TANTANGAN ABAD 21 SERTA OPTIMALISASI IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM 2013 by Suciati Sudarisman

“…Global era and the integration of technology in education, helped accelerate the synergy of knowledge across disciplines, thus giving birth to a new field. Learning aimed at creating an atmosphere of active, critical, analytical, and creative in solving problems through the development of thinking skills. …”
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A Follow-Up Report of an Infant Born to a Mother Receiving Tamoxifen by Yuki Okada, Daisuke Hitaka, Takahiro Kido, Yu Kanai, Kumi Konishi, Kosuke Doki, Nobuko Katayama, Masato Homma, Yayoi Miyazono, Hidetoshi Takada

“…The infant, born at 29 weeks and 6 days of gestational age with a birth weight of 1664 g, had no congenital anomalies. …”
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Effect of Feed Restriction during Pregnancy on Performance and Productivity of New Zealand White Rabbit Does by Abeer Nafeaa, Souad Abd Elfattah Ahmed, Said Fat Hallah

“…Maternal body weights, litter size, litter weight, and average body weight of kits at kindling of 𝑅1 showed no change, whereas 𝑅2 showed significant reduction in the weights of does at the 4th week of pregnancy and at kindling. The birth weight and weaning weight of 𝑅2 were significantly reduced. …”
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Measles seroprevalence in Thailand: are adolescents and young adults at risk of measles? by Panit Takkinsatian, Kamolmart Wannaphahoon, Prasit Upapan, Sansnee Senawong, Olarn Prommalikit

“…Methods: A total of 600 participants aged between 9 months and 50 years were divided into seven groups representing birth cohorts that experienced different measles vaccination policies. …”
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A Case of Congenital Brainstem Oligodendroglioma: Pathology Findings and Review of the Literature by Stefan Kostadinov, Suzanne de la Monte

“…A male infant was delivered at 36.4 weeks of gestation via Cesarean section who developed progressive dyspnea shortly after birth. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of his head showed the expansile, poorly demarcated mass in the pons with minimal heterogeneous enhancement and severe communicating hydrocephalus. …”
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Prenatal Diagnosis of Isolated Agnathia-Otocephaly: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Kazuhiro Kajiwara, Tomohiro Tanemoto, Chie Nagata, Aikou Okamoto

“…The neonate was deemed nonresuscitable and he died of airway obstruction shortly after birth. Because agnathia is associated with very poor prognosis, accurate prenatal diagnosis and detailed counseling should be promptly provided before unexpected delivery to the parents for the determination of postnatal treatment.…”
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Review article: key aspects of mammal microbiome development by E. V. Semenova, O. A. Manzhurina, Yu. S. Parkhomenko

“…The active interaction between microorganisms and the host organism begins already at birth. Even different modes of delivery (caesarean or vaginal delivery) may determine the initial colonization of the newborn. …”
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Some Episodes from E. Turauskas' Life and Activities by Aldona Vasiliauskienė

“…In 1996 scientific jubilee conferences to commemorate Edvardas Turauskas' 30th death and 100th birth anniversaries were held in Vilnius, Endriejavas, Panevėžys, Kaunas... …”
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Krasnoshchyoks’ brothers: experience of historical and biographic research by A. B. Gularyan

“…The collected actual material allowed the author to show changes in the development and feature of personal manifestations at the people belonging to one family, but to different cohorts of the birth: one of brothers became social democrat, the second — the anarchist. …”
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An Overview of the BALSAC Population Database. Past Developments, Current State and Future Prospects by Hélène Vézina, Jean-Sébastien Bournival

“…Coverage is complete for Catholic records (80 to 100% of the population depending on the region and the period) and partial for the other denominations. Birth and death certificates from all Catholic parishes have been integrated for the period 1800–1849 and work in underway for 1850–1916. …”
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Mother-Offspring Relations: Prey Quality and Maternal Size Affect Egg Size of an Acariphagous Lady Beetle in Culture by Eric W. Riddick, Zhixin Wu

“…Mothers of unknown body size offered high rather than low quality spider mites since birth produced larger eggs. Mothers of known body size offered only high quality spider mites, produced eggs of variable size, but mean egg size correlated positively with hind femur length. …”
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The Role of Lifestyle Behaviors on 20-Year Cognitive Decline by D. Cadar, H. Pikhart, G. Mishra, A. Stephen, D. Kuh, M. Richards

“…This study examined the association between smoking, physical activity and dietary choice at 36 and 43 years, and change in these lifestyle behaviors between these ages, and decline in verbal memory and visual search speed between 43 and 60–64 years in 1018 participants from MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD, the British 1946 birth cohort). ANCOVA models were adjusted for sex, social class of origin, childhood cognition, educational attainment, adult social class, and depression; then the lifestyle behaviors were additionally mutually adjusted. …”
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The meaning of repeated assisted reproductive technologies failures experienced of older infertile women by Hyun Jung Oh, Gisoo Shin

“…IntroductionThe trend of older pregnant women and infertile women in South Korea, who are influencing the low birth rate, is on the rise. Older infertile women earnestly hoped for pregnancy and persisted in undergoing assisted reproductive technology multiple times. …”
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Alternative models for cyclic lemming dynamics by Hao Wang, Yang Kuang

“…Wesuspect that the main culprits may include high lemming predationrate, high lemming birth rate, and low lemming self-limitation rate.…”
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The Controversy, Challenges, and Potential Benefits of Putative Female Germline Stem Cells Research in Mammals by Zezheng Pan, Mengli Sun, Xia Liang, Jia Li, Fangyue Zhou, Zhisheng Zhong, Yuehui Zheng

“…The conventional view is that female mammals lose their ability to generate new germ cells after birth. However, in recent years, researchers have successfully isolated and cultured a type of germ cell from postnatal ovaries in a variety of mammalian species that have the abilities of self-proliferation and differentiation into oocytes, and this finding indicates that putative germline stem cells maybe exist in the postnatal mammalian ovaries. …”
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According to the normal weight, overweight and obese comparison of bioelectric impedance analysis method with the other methods by Evrim Cakmakcı, Fatma Arslan, Hüsamettin Vatansev, Meryem Ayrancı

“…Women are faced with the problem of obesity because of over-nutrition, still life and birth weight. To Assess overweight and obesity are used with Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist/hip ratio and skinfold thickness measurement method and Bioelectrical impedance analysis method. …”
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Linking Epigenetics to Human Disease and Rett Syndrome: The Emerging Novel and Challenging Concepts in MeCP2 Research by Robby Mathew Zachariah, Mojgan Rastegar

“…Furthermore, it is becoming evident that although Rett Syndrome is a progressive and postnatal neurological disorder, the consequences of MeCP2 deficiencies initiate much earlier and before birth. To comprehend the novel and challenging concepts in MeCP2 research and to design effective therapeutic strategies for Rett Syndrome, a targeted collaborative effort from scientists in multiple research areas to clinicians is required.…”
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Problems and contradictions of international migration statistics by B. B. Loginov

“…Three approaches – residence outside the country of birth, citizenship, place of usual daily rest – often conflict with each other, when it is necessary to establish the true country of origin of the migrant.The shortcomings of the main sources of information about immigrants: population census, administrative records, population surveys have been also analyzed in the article. …”
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Analyse généalogique et structure de la population. L’ascendance des natifs de la vallée de la Valserine (Jura français), XVIIe-XXesiècles by Guy Brunet, Stéphane Lallich, Alain Bideau

“…This observation can be made whatever the period of birth studied and it reveals the existence of a genealogical structure in the population. …”
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