Background Research on the impact of maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) on scholastic achievement in the offspring has shown conflicting findings. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of MSDP on scholastic achievement in a birth cohort of children in 4th, 7th and 10th grades. Methods We analysed data from the LIFECOURSE study, a cohort study of risk and protective factor...

The topic of data warehousing encompasses architectures, algorithms, and tools for bringing together selected data from multiple databases or other information sources into a single repository, called a data warehouse, suitable for direct querying or analysis. In recent years data warehousing has become a prominent buzzword in the database industry, but attention from the database research comm...

Many mites were found on bookshelves near the windows in 2 rooms of the Department of Pediatrics on the 4th floor in the Tokai University Hospital. Fortunately, nobody reported being bitten by, or experiencing itching due to, the mites. The arthropods were tentatively identified as adults of the northern fowl mite, Ornithonyssus sylviarum (Canestrini et Frazago, 1877), commonly called "Torisash...

A leptonic (l̄l) decay of a heavy quark-antiquark bound state T (Q̄Q) with a Higgs-boson H emission is investigated. The applying of the well-known low-energy theorem to meson-Higgs coupling allows one to estimate the probability of the decay T (Q̄Q) → l̄lH. The only a simple version of the Standard Model extension containing two-Higgs doublet is considered. It is well-known that some extensions of...

It has been reported that the aphelinid wasp Eertmocerus mundus parasitizes all four nymphal instars of the sweet potato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Biotype B), with 3rd instars being the preferred hosts. The parasitoid lays its egg on the leaf underneath the host nymph. First instars hatch and later penetrate the whitefly. Previous studies have shown that the initiation of parasitoid penetration...

Background: Behavioral disorders in childhood are very important due to the possibility of behavioral-mental disorders in adulthood. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of behavioral disorders factors among children in the 4th and 5th grade of primary school in Rafsanjan City, Iran, in 2016. Materials and Methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, 500 students were select...

......Large-scale IT services are increasingly migrating from storage to memory because of tight data access latency requirements. Online services such as search and social connectivity require managing massive amounts of data while maintaining a low request tail latency. Similarly, analytic engines for business intelligence are increasingly inmemory to minimize query response time. The net res...

VERSTER, ANNA, COLLIN S, H . MARIA & ANDERSON, P. J. S. 1971. Studies on D ictyocaulus filaria. IV. The morphogenesis of the parasitic stages in lambs. Onderstepoort ]. vet. R es. 38 (3), 199-206 (1971). In males the parasitic 3rd stage, 3rd moult, 4th stage, 4th moult and 5th stage are reached on D ays 1 to 2, 3, 4, 5 to 6 and 8 respectively. The 4th stage is swollen in the anal region and acc...