Arch Dis Child December 2010 Vol 95 No 12 A 9-year-old boy presented with an 18-month history of faltering growth, recurrent respiratory tract infections, persistent ‘apthous’ ulcer on his tongue and ‘warts’ on his fi ngertips and soles. He is the second offspring of a healthy unrelated Sri Lankan couple and past medical history was unremarkable. Baseline immunology and infectious disease scree...

Abstract Background Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with increased risks for complications before, during, and after birth, in addition to risk of disease through adulthood. Although placental insufficiency, failure supply the fetus adequate nutrients, underlies most cases FGR, its causes are diverse not fully understood. One few diagnosable insufficiency ongoing pregnancies presen...

We present a model of interpersonal attitude used for generating expressive postures for computer animated characters. Our model consists of two principle dimensions, affiliation and status. It takes into account the relationships between the attitudes of two characters and allows for a large degree of variation between characters, both in how they react to other characters’ behaviour and in th...

This case study investigated the effect of body position on the first three formants (F1, F2, F3) of the British English vowels /iː/, /ɛ/, /æ/, /ɔː/ and /uː/ produced by one male native speaker. While F1 remained unaffected significant changes in F2 and F3 were found for certain vowels when they were produced in a supine rather than in an upright position. F2 was significantly lower for /iː/, /...

This paper reviews Bolivia’s economic and social development over the period 198599, and investigates the country’s future prospects for pro-poor growth using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. Model simulations show that under optimistic assumptions the growth and poverty goals envisaged in the Bolivian poverty reduction strategy may be achieved, but that performance will fall short...

Background: Among the available data provided by health information systems, data on mortality are commonly used not only as health indicators but also as socioeconomic development indices. Recognizing that in Iran accurate data on causes of death were not available, the Deputy of Health in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOH&ME) established a new comprehensive system for death re...