SHORTER ARTICLES

Shorter articles and notes the interpretation of the passive voice

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Shorter mothers have shorter pregnancies

We assessed whether maternal height was associated with gestational age in a cohort of 294 children born at term. Increasing maternal height was associated with longer pregnancy duration (p = 0.002). Stratified analyses showed that the main effect on pregnancy length appears to occur among shorter mothers (<165 cm tall), whose pregnancies were ∼0.6 and ∼0.7 weeks shorter than pregnancies of mot...

Shorter Notes

Kaplan’s latest book picks up some of the ideas from his earlier writings on leisure and examines these in the setting of old age. In so doing, he provides a welcome addition to the sparse literature examining the relationships between leisure and the needs of the elderly. This paucity can probably be attributed to two main factors. The first is that leisure is not normally associated with ‘pro...

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Case Histories and Shorter Communications

-This paper reports a number of case histories which illustrate the involvement of UCS inflation processes in the aetiology of a variety of anxiety disorders including agoraphobia, simple phobia, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorder and panic disorder. These cases are discussed in the context of: (i) renewed interest in cognitive features of conditioning models of anxiety disorders; and (ii) the...