Letter: Children's worms.

Worms

Sir.?I slit. 11 deem it a great, favour if yon will kindly allow me a little space in your well-known journal for the following few lines with a view to draw the attention of your numerous readers to the subject. During the last two years of a practice attending over 20 years I have come across a series of cases suffering from a peculiar kind of worm which fly within a few seconds of their expu...

Worms, Nematoda

Flying Worms

Velvet worms

What is a velvet worm? Velvet worms are terrestrial, soft-bodied, many-legged carnivores. They form the phylum Onychophora (‘claw bearers’ — each of their many limbs terminates in paired claws). Velvet worms range in size from around 10 millimetres long to relative giants in excess of 20 centimetres, and known species have between 13 and 43 pairs of stubby limbs termed lobopods. Unlike arthropo...

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...