Article history: Received 3 November 2008 Revised 2 December 2008 Accepted 9 December 2008 Available online 16 December 2008

OBJECTIVE Prevalence of low birth weight deliveries may vary across different environments. The necessity of determination of regional data prompted this study. METHODS Information of all deliveries from January 2004 to December 2008 was obtained from delivery registry records retrospectively. Initial data including birth weight, vital status, sex, maternal age and mode of delivery were recor...

On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates Author(s): Robert C. Merton Source: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 29, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association, New York, New York, December 28-30, 1973 (May, 1974), pp. 449-470 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http...

Methods From February 2008 to April 2014 we have treated 148 malignant cases. Of those, 48 cases of non resectable pancreatic tumors were treated from March 2010 to April 2014, and we include the first 43 patients to the analysis (until December 2013). All of them underwent systemic chemotherapy with a standard combination. Clinical responses (thermical ablation achieved) were measured by image...

Interand intra-specimen variability masks reliable temperature control on shell Mg/Ca ratios in laboratory and field cultured Mytilus edulis and Pecten maximus (bivalvia) P. S. Freitas, L. J. Clarke, H. A. Kennedy, and C. A. Richardson School of Ocean Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK Departamento de Geologia Marinha, INETI, Portugal Received: : 29 November 2007 – Acc...

Article history: Received 27 September 2008 Received in revised form 2 December 2008 Accepted 8 December 2008 Available online 24 December 2008

Article history: Using objective measures Received 4 January 2008 Received in revised form 3 December 2008 Accepted 8 December 2008 Available online 14 December 2008

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background: to determine the prevalence and characteristics of birth defects in perinatal infants in hubei province during 200l-2008. methods: the prevalence of birth defects in perinatal infants delivered after 28 weeks or more was analyzed in hubei surveillance hospitals during 200l-2008. results: the incidence of birth defects in perinatal infants from 200l to 2008 was 120.0 per 10,000 birth...

BACKGROUND Most maternal deaths, intrapartum-related stillbirths, and newborn deaths in low income countries are preventable but simple, effective methods for improving safety in institutional births have not been devised. Checklist-based interventions aid management of complex or neglected tasks and have been shown to reduce harm in healthcare. We hypothesized that implementation of the WHO Sa...