Being Born in Manitoba

Does being born big confer advantages?

when comparing Aboriginal communities to the majority population, as Wassimi and colleagues point out in their study of perinatal and postneonatal mortality by birthweight. In a step toward understanding the higher infant mortality among First Nations communities, the authors tackled the interesting question of whether there are survival advantages to large-for-gestational-age birthweight. In o...

A new speciality is being born.

Effective Born radii in the generalized Born approximation: The importance of being perfect

Generalized Born (GB) models provide, for many applications, an accurate and computationally facile estimate of the electrostatic contribution to aqueous solvation. The GB models involve two main types of approximations relative to the Poisson equation (PE) theory on which they are based. First, the self-energy contributions of individual atoms are estimated and expressed as "effective Born rad...

Conceptions and dimensions of health and well-being for Métis women in Manitoba.

Because of the continuing poor health status of Aboriginal populations in Canada, along with increasing opportunity for Aboriginal designed health surveys, it is argued that policies and programs, and the research from which they are derived, should be more solidly grounded within Aboriginal understandings of health and well-being. Survey research for Aboriginal populations usually draws on que...

Born to be Happy? The Etiology of Subjective Well-Being

Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) can be assessed with distinct measures that have been hypothesized to represent different domains of SWB. The current study assessed SWB with four different measures in a genetically informative sample of adolescent twins and their siblings aged 13-28 years (N = 5,024 subjects from 2,157 families). Multivariate genetic modeling was applied to the data to explore the e...