Fundamental ecological processes, such as extrinsic mortality, determine population age structure. This influences disease spread when individuals of different ages differ in susceptibility or when maternal age determines offspring susceptibility. We show that Daphnia magna offspring born to young mothers are more susceptible than those born to older mothers, and consider this alongside previou...

AIM To conduct a systematic review in order to compare adverse effects (AE) and the reporting of harm in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and non-RCTs evaluating intravitreal ranibizumab and bevacizumab in age-related macular degeneration. METHODS Medline, Embase and the Cochrane Library were searched with no limitations of language and year of publication. Studies which compared bevacizum...

objectives: auditory brain stem response (abr) is a result of eight nerve and brain stem nuclei stimulation. several factors may affect the latencies, interpeak latencies and amplitudes in abr especially sex and age. in this study, age and sex influence on abr were studied. methods: this study was performed on 120 cases (60 males and 60 females) at akhavan rehabilitation center of university of...

Longitudinal height data and physical development were assessed in 29 boys and 12 girls taking long term steroid treatment for steroid sensitive nephrotic syndrome. Growth in both boys and girls, assessed by changes in height standard deviation score (delta Ht SDS), worsened significantly with chronological age. There was a significant negative correlation between delta Ht SDS and duration of t...

INTRODUCTION Despite drastic increases in antipsychotic prescribing in youth, data are still limited regarding their safety in this vulnerable population, necessitating additional tools for capturing long-term, real world data. METHODS We present SENTIA (SafEty of NeurolepTics in Infancy and Adolescence; https://SENTIA.es), an online registry created in 2010 to track antipsychotic adverse eff...

APOSTOLOV, A. and I. SABEVA, 2009. Breeding value estimation on some selection traits of performance productivity of small pig populations from the Danube White breed. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 15: 276-280 Breeding value estimation was calculated on the basis of mixed-model, Animal model (sire model). The influence of the herd (replacement animals and culled animals), sex and year was studied. The ...

Two-part random effects models have been used to fit semi-continuous longitudinal data where the response variable has a point mass at 0 and a continuous right-skewed distribution for positive values. We review methods proposed in the literature for analyzing data with excess zeros. A two-part logit-lognormal random effects model, a two-part logit-truncated normal random effects model, a two-pa...