The star LHS 3250 is found to be a white dwarf at a distance of 30 pc. Its absolute magnitudes (MV = 15.72; Mbol = 16.2) put it among the least-luminous white dwarfs known. Its optical spectrum shows no features, indicating it has a DC classification, and it shows no detectable polarization, indicating it does not have a very strong magnetic field. However, its broadband colors show it to have ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate attention and task-set adaptation in a preterm born very low birth weight (PT/VLBW) population by means of event-related potential components from an adapted cued go/no-go task. METHODS P3 components after target and non-target cues, as well as target, no-go and non-target imperative stimuli were compared in 30 PT/VLBW young adults and 33 term-born controls. Changes i...

AIM Previous findings regarding the prevalence and predictive value of weak language skills in preterm children with very low birth weight (VLBW) are unclear. This study analysed the prevalence of weak language skills, the predictive value of early weak language skills on later weak language skills, and the sensitivity and specificity of cognitive scores for identifying concurrent weak language...

Background: While anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level allows quantitative evaluation of ovarian reserve, its predictive value for live births following assisted reproductive technology cycles has remained controversial. The aim of the present study was to assess the importance of AMH in predicting live birth following intrauterine insemination (IUI) in the case of low or very lo...

AIM To compare children of very low birth weight with matched controls for their performance in the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). METHODS GCSE examination results of 167 children of birth weight < or =1500 g attending mainstream schools and without clinical disability and 167 individually matched classroom controls were analysed. RESULTS In 143 instances, both children ...

Early age of assessment is the limitation of present study, and a much longer follow up might have been more informative. We would like to clarify that DQ of all VLBW infants was not above 90, it was the mean DQ of this group. A mean DQ below 85 was observed in 22% of infants. This finding along with difference of 6 point in mean DQ between two groups cannot be underestimated and warrants a lon...

A new class of non-totally symmetric functions which can be represented as simple regular symmetric arrays without redundancy is identified. Regular circuits are becoming crucialy important for deep submicron technologies, which needs new layout approaches to fully utilized their potential. The new class of functions contains the classes of totally symmetric and totally symmetric with mixed pol...

Growth modeling was used to examine the relation of early parenting behaviors (averaged across 6 and 12 months) with rates of change in children's cognitive-language and social response and initiating skills assessed at 6, 12, 24, and 40 months. Groups of full-term (n = 112) and very low birth weight children, divided into medically low (n = 114) and high risk (HR; n = 73), were included to eva...