Prenatal serotonin and neonatal outcome: Brief report Tiffany Field a,b,∗, Miguel Diego a, Maria Hernandez-Reif c, Barbara Figueiredo d, Osvelia Deeds a, Angela Ascencio a, Saul Schanberg e, Cynthia Kuhn e a Touch Research Institute, University of Miami Medical School, United States b Fielding Graduate University, United States c University of Alabama, United States d University of Minho, Portu...

Koel Bhattacharya, Suman Kanungo, Dipika Sur, Banwari Lal Sarkar, Byomkesh Manna, Anna Lena Lopez,1 Manjira Bhattacharya, Suman Nandy, and Swapan Kumar Niyogi Author affi liations: National institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India (K. Bhattacharya, S. Kanungo, D. Sur, B.L. Sarkar, B. Manna, M. Bhattacharya, S. Nandy, S.K. Niyogi); and International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Sou...

Modeling of broiler chicken supply-chain economics depends on robust biological models of growth and yield of broiler chickens. In this paper, 8 dynamic nonlinear broiler carcass and carcass part yield models were evaluated statistically for their suitability for predicting weights of carcass parts. The analysis employed 4 sigmoidal (S) models (Gompertz, modified Gompertz, Richards, and Lopez) ...

Case presentation: Female patient, 8 years old, born in Itanhaem, from São Paulo, with a previous context of hypotonic infant syndrome, repetitive head nodding movements, convergent strabismus, alopecia, low implantation the ears and short stature. On evaluation, he was alert, without language alterations, threshold for fructation, difficulty concentrating, hyperactivity, but evidence intellect...

Cover Illustration: The cover pictures an Eocene Atlantogean landscape showing vertebrate groups shared only by South America and northern Africa during the Tertiary. The basis is a palaeoprovince proposed by Ezcurra and Agnolin (this issue) that included South America, continental Africa, Europe, Antarctica and Australia. The fi rst plane of the fi gure shows a phororhacoid bird (cf. Lavocatav...

S. J. Bingham, S. R. Lewis, P. L. Read, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, UK ([email protected]), F. Forget, F. Hourdin, O. Talagrand, Y. Wanherdrick, M. Angelats I Coll, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique du CNRS, Université Paris 6, Paris, France, M. Lopez-Valverde, M. Lopez-Puertas, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain, J-P. Huot, Euro...