Affiliations 1 Centre of Research in Childhood Health, Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark 2 Spine Center of Southern Denmark, SLB-Middelfart, Østre Houg vej 5, 5500 Middelfart, Denmark 3 University College Lillebaelt, Odense, Denmark 4 Peadiatric Research Center, The Hans Christian Andersen Childrens Hos...

A tape measure, based on 50th centile weight for height and designed to permit easy drug dosage calculation, endotracheal tube size and DC cardioversion current dosages in childrens' emergencies, was tested for reliability by medical and nursing staff with varying paediatric experience. We found that the tape measure gave a reproducible estimate of weight and suggest that its use would facilita...

1 Bioinformatics, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 2 Life Science Computation Centre, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, Carlton, Victoria, Australia, 3 The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 4 The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, School of Botany, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic...

The social progress of Ukrainian society directly depends on the health population, and prospects for its development depend younger generation, especially school-age children. Since school age is most favorable formation healthy lifestyle skills, a conscious attitude to one's health, desire maintain improve level throughout later life. Unfortunately, physical children adolescents has been stea...

A central scientific problem in phonology is how children rapidly and accurately acquire the intricate structures and patterns seen in the phonology of their native language. The solution to this problem lies in part in the discovery of the right formal theory of phonology, but another crucial element is the development of theories of learning, often in the form of machineimplemented models tha...

Theresa V. Strong,* Lisa S . Smit, Samya Nasr, Deborah L. Wood, Jeffrey L. Cole, Michael C. Iannuzzi, Robert C. Stern, and Francis S. Collins Departments of Human Genetics (T.V.S., L.S.S., D.L. W., F.S.C.) , Pediatrics (S.N.), lnternal Medicine (F.S.C.), and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (J.L.C., F.S.C.), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0650; The Henry Ford Hospital, Det...