Objective was to introduce a modified appliance and treatment protocol for presurgical nasoalveolar molding in a new born baby presenting with unilateral cleft of the lip and palate. This treatment comprises use of an orthopedic plate with acrylic nasal stent, in combination with adhesive steri-strip. The plate is adjusted every week for alveolar molding. For nasal molding, soft acrylic is adde...

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...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a prevention program for infant sleep and cry problems and postnatal depression. METHODS: Randomized controlled trial with 781 infants born at 32 weeks or later in 42 well-child centers, Melbourne, Australia. Follow-up occurred at infant age 4 and 6 months. The intervention including supplying information about normal infant sleep and cry patterns, settling techniques, me...

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...

N. Dori, H. Behar, H. Brot, and Y. Louzoun 4, ∗ Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel Department of Biology, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA Center for Polymer Studies and Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan Univ...