Still-born children

Proposed Registration of Still-Born Children

Still-Born Infants

Do not forget that when you sneeze, the fairies are endeavouring to carry you off, and that if a sudden lameness overtakes you, it indicates that you have been trespassing on fairy ground. The great safeguards against the fairies are fire, iron, and dung, the last-mentioned because the fairies, being pure spirits, cannot bear defilement. Never take fire out of a house with a person sick within ...

Guardianship of Children Born from Artificial Insemination

Infertility in the world today is no longer an inescapable problem, and doctors have been able to solve the problem of infertile treatment in a coherent way. The birth of children by artificial insemination is in the following ways: 1) Insemination by husband’s sperm with egg inside the uterus or out of it for fertilization, and 2) Inoculation by another sperm (stranger-donor) inside or outside...

Is Mean-Variance Analysis Vacuous: Or was Beta Still Born?

We show in any economy trading options, with investors having mean-variance preferences, that there are arbitrage opportunities resulting from negative prices for out of the money call options. The theoretical implication of this inconsistency is that mean-variance analysis is vacuous. The practical implications of this inconsistency are investigated by developing an option pricing model for a ...

A still born baby with cranial vault defects.

A 40-year-old-mother presents to the antenatal clinic with uterus size larger than gestational age. The gestational age is 32 weeks but uterine size corresponds to term size. She comes from a rural village without any early antenatal booking. Ultrasound confirmed polyhydramnios and fetal abnormality. She has no significant past medical history. Two weeks later she delivers her baby via spontane...