The Image Reduction and Analysis Facility is a scientific image processing package widely used throughout the astronomical community. IRAF has been developed and distributed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona since the early 1980’s. Other observatories and projects have written many dozens of layered external application packages. More than ten thousand journal art...

BACKGROUND Congenital heart disease (CHD) survival estimates are important to understand prognosis and evaluate health and social care needs. Few studies have reported CHD survival estimates according to maternal and fetal characteristics. This study aimed to identify predictors of CHD survival and report conditional survival estimates. METHODS AND RESULTS Cases of CHD (n=5070) born during 19...

BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy presents with a range of severity of cognitive, motor, and sensory disabilities, which might affect survival. AIMS To quantify the effects of motor, cognitive, and sensory disabilities, year of birth, birth weight, and gestational age on survival in cerebral palsy. METHODS A cohort of children with cerebral palsy born between 1966 and 1989 to mothers resident in a ...

introduction: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is the most common psychiatric disorder in school age children and has a negative effect on the individual’s general functions. the purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of adhd in preschool 6 year old children in yazd in 2005 and the influence of gender, birth weight, birth order and parental education on adhd. method...

infantile hemiplegia refers to brain injuries that occur before or at birth and lead to hemiplegia/ total paralysis of one side of the body, including the face, arm and leg. the main purpose of this article is to provide valuable information to pediatric dentists about the review and treatment alternatives for patients with infantile hemiplegia. this article reports the case of a 12-year-old gi...

the genetic parameters and (co) variance components of body weight at birth (bw), weaning (ww) and six months of age (bw6) and average daily gain (adg) pre and post-weaning of afshari sheep were estimated using restricted maximum likelihood (reml) methodology and animal model implemented in dfreml software. the likelihood ratio test (lrt) was used to compare the models. year of birth, age of mo...

The aim of the present research is to investigate breeders’ management strategies and their effects on reproductive performances in heritage breeds. A total 468 litters were analysed: Belgian Hare (N = 151), Burgundy Fawn 105), Californian 212). Litter size (born alive), percentage weaned kits selected analysed using a model that included breed, year birth, litter’s origin (with three levels: b...