“Happy New Year!” As you open this January 2021 issue of IEEE T ransactions on N eural etworks and L earning S ystems (IEEE TNNLS), I hope everyone enjoyed a healthy happy holiday season!

The call from the nursing home relayed that an 85-yearold male was coming in by ambulance complaining of increased shortness of breath. The nursing home told us that he had an unknown code status. Once the patient arrived, it was clear that he was in the process of dying. While I was preparing for aggressive resuscitative efforts, my attending physician was shuffling through some paperwork that...

 Introduction: High quality of life during the pregnancy is of great importance for both mother and the fetus. In order to identify factors affecting the quality of life of pregnant women, this study was conducted to show the role of health promoting behaviors in predicting the quality of life of pregnant women. Methods: This was a cross sectional study. Statistical population consisted...

OBJECTIVES The Pittsburgh Influenza Prevention Project (PIPP) has previously shown that school-aged children in grades K-5 can learn hygiene-based, nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and persist in these behaviors over the duration of an influenza season. The purpose of this study was to determine whether age (as estimated by grade) plays any role in this ability. METHODS The Pittsburgh I...

Pygo2 opens chromatin and cycles cells B y spreading an active chromatin state, Pygo2 prompts the proliferation of mammary gland progenitor cells, report Gu et al. The fl y version of Pygo2, Pygopus, is essential for Wg signaling. But the relationship between mammalian Wg (Wnt) and Pygo2 is less clear. Pygo2 is necessary for the development of a number of tissues, but in the two best studied—ey...

We develop a simple model of labor market participation, human capital degradation, and re-training. We focus on how non-participation, as a distinct state from unemployment and employment, is determined by the welfare system in interaction with labor market conditions and personal characteristics. We provide a tractable framework to analyze how the decisions to exit the labor force and to miti...

objectives: this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of aggressive behaviors, life satisfaction (ls) and self- rated health (srh) and counseling with family members in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6-18 years, wereselected by cluster and stratified multi-stage sampling method fr...