Born to it

Iron Status in Newborns Born to Iron-Deficient Mothers

Background: Iron deficiency anemia is one of the important problems during pregnancy.  Iron deficiency has several adverse effects on pregnant women and their newborns. Objective: To determine the status of iron store in newborns born to mothers with iron deficiency anemia. Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 90 mothers were categorized into three groups according to their pre-delivery hemoglo...

Part of Our Culture is Born Digital - On Efforts to Preserve it for Future Generations

The Internet has already established itself as one of the key information and communication media of our time. With Internet-specific types of information representation and art evolving, and with social groups forming in cyberspace, the Internet and its content is turning into an important part of our cultural heritage. This new digital cultural heritage is deemed worth preserving by an increa...

Part of Our Culture is Born Digital - On E orts to Preserve it for Future Generations

Banksia born to burn.

• Historical evidence of recurrent fire in many of the world's biomes suggests that fire may have had profound evolutionary influences on their extant floras. However, the role of fire as a selective force in the origin and evolution of plant traits remains controversial. • Using Bayesian Monte-Carlo-Markov-Chain procedures and calibration points from the fossil record, we generated a dated phy...

Born to Trouble

' of military service, his long series ; of prison sentences, interspersed ; with chaotic liaisons with women, r his virtual unemployability, inability to make lasting relationships, and finally his death at 40 as a result of swallowing pins?but not before he had achieved some notoriety through a series of autobiographical monologues on the B.B.C. Third Programme. Although the story reaches poi...