The 'suppression' of unwanted babies seems to have been commonplace in antiquity. Early travellers to New Zealand, while remarking on how fond the Maoris were of their children and how well they looked after them, noted that infanticide was openly practised. The most favoured methods were squeezing the nose between the fingers, pressing the fontanel, or putting a wet cloth over the baby's head-...

The article examines the content and structure of competence-oriented tasks (COT), which are used in process training future geography teachers higher education institutions (HEI); an own definition term COT is proposed its conceptual basis characterized.
 leading features geographical disciplines COT, their structural components, particular motivation, providing question with form, explai...

Large-group (n > 8) co-located collaboration has not been adequately studied because it demands different conceptual framings than those used to study small-group collaboration, while also posing pragmatic constraints on data collection. Working within these constraints, we use video devise an indicator of the current possibilities for learner during large-group interactions. We borrow conce...

Meta-dehumanization contributes to a vicious cycle of hostility. This study extends the literature by investigating antecedents and outcomes meta-dehumanization in context Muslim–non-Muslim relations. Specifically, control over terrorism (COT) threat were tested as predictors among non-Muslim British nationals (N = 313). The results revealed that lower perceptions COT predicted increased threat...

Cot-based cloning and sequencing (CBCS), a synthesis of Cot analysis, DNA cloning and high-throughput sequencing, promises to accelerate the study of eukaryotic genomes. In particular, CBCS will (1) permit efficient gene discovery in species with substantial quantities of repetitive DNA, (2) allow the sequence complexity (i.e. all the unique sequence information) of large genomes to be elucidat...

BACKGROUND There have been few reports studying the necessary interval between blood pressure measurements, after the initial rest period. METHODS Blood pressure was measured in 50 patients using the conventional oscillometric technique (COT) and the rapid oscillometric technique (ROT). RESULTS The difference between COT and ROT was -1.1 / -0.1 mmHg, which was not significantly different (p...

Sequencing of cereal genomes is not a feasible task due to their large size and high content of repetitive DNA sequences. There are two basic approaches to simplify analysis of such genomes: reduced representation approaches, such as EST sequencing, methyl filtration and Cot-based cloning and sequencing; on the other side there is analysis of genomes in a step-wise manner, e.g. through creation...

older age, earlier age at initiation, previous quit attempts) or psychological factors (e.g. stress/anxiety, degree of nicotine dependence) [8, 9]. Therefore, besides evaluating a patient's likelihood of smoking resumption, active screening for smoking, both when listed for LTx and during post-LTx follow-up, should be performed. For the patients resuming smoking, a standardised smoking cessatio...