Preterm births occur in 9.7% of all US singleton births. The rate for blacks is double that of whites and the rate is 25% higher for Hispanics than for whites. While a number of individual correlates with preterm birth have been identified, race and ethnic differences have not been fully explained. Influenced by a growing body of literature documenting a relationship among health, individual in...

Our sense organs and our brain operate as an intricate kind of filter which limits and directs the mind’s clairvoyant powers, so that under normal conditions attention is concentrated on just those objects or situations that are of biological importance for the survival of the organism and its species . . . As a rule, it would seem, the ind rejects ideas coming from another ind as the body reje...

The 2010 I2B2 NLP challenge concentrated on extraction of three types of information from clinical records: medical concepts, their certainty status and relations between them. For participation in this challenge, we designed an automatic NLP system exploiting terminological resources and a rule-based approach. An attemp was also made to apply knowledge engineering methods. Our system provides ...

The institutional reforms France imposed in the parts of Germany it occupied late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are claimed to provide an example successful externally-imposed reforms. most detailed study is that Lecce Ogliari (2019), who argue effectiveness transplanted French institutions different Prussia depended on cultural proximity between relevant part Prussia. However, take...

A Xenopus laevis homeobox gene, Xhox3, has been isolated using the homeobox of the Drosophila pair-rule gene even skipped as a hybridization probe. Xhox3 is first transcribed at the midblastula transition; RNA levels peak at the early neurula stage and decrease thereafter. During the early period of Xhox3 expression, the gastrula and neurula stages, transcripts are found in a graded fashion alo...

The basic farmland within the protection areas was required to be of high-quality and connective in the general plans for land use. A new method was developed to delineate the boundaries of high-quality, concentrated and connective cultivated land. Based on mathematical morphology principles and GIS methods, the high quality of cultivated land blocks could be identified through dilation and ero...

Recently, the European Commission has decided to implement a simplified procedure in the context of vertical integration. If the combined market shares of the merging firms are less than 25 percent, upstream and downstream, the Commission will consider the merger harmless. The purpose of this study is to examine the welfare aspects of vertical integration in a simple model and investigate the a...

Although most studies in the field of game-driven population dynamics are concentrated on imitation update rule, it is logit rule that dominated many cases society. Despite fact may seem to be an intelligence method choose profitable strategy, often can lead a lower level cooperation This study aims at investigating effect using extra source information process each strategy profitability estim...