BACKGROUND The Parent Report of Children's Abilities-Revised (PARCA-R) is a questionnaire for assessing cognitive and language development in very preterm infants. Given the increased risk of developmental delay in infants born late and moderately preterm (LMPT; 32-36 weeks), this study aimed to validate this questionnaire as a screening tool in this population. METHODS Parents of 219 childre...

The germplasm collection of 87 wheat-wheatgrass hybrids developed in Tsitisin Main Botanical Garden (Russia, Moscow) was evaluated for resistance to pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) by spike sprouting (SS) and germination index (GI) assays as well as for spike and grain features. The PHS resistance variation and haplotype polymorphism of the wheatgrass ThVp-1 and wheat TaVp-1B genes orthologues of V...

objective: this study surveys children and their parent's perceptions, and their treatment preference of significant/bothersome symptoms in children with tourette syndrome. methods: thirty five children and adolescents who referred to an out-patient clinic of a child psychiatry clinic were selected as subjects for this study. the children and their parents were interviewed about their perceptio...

objective(s):as far as we know,there has been no report regarding the effects of opium addiction or dependency of both parents on the learning and memory process in offspring. the aim of this study was to examine the learning and memory changes of adult male offspring whose mothers, fathers and/or both parents had dependency to opium before and during pregnancy. materials and methods: all exper...

objective: antisocial, aggressive and delinquent behaviors in adults often begin early in life. basal cortisol is a valuable biological marker in children with disruptive behavior disorder (dbd). to investigate the association between biological factor (cortisol) and disruptive behaviors, we studied the effect of family training on salivary cortisol level in children with dbd. methods: basal sa...

indirect evidence suggests that estrogen is involved in the etiology of breast cancer. estrogen is also thought to modulate nitric oxide (no) in human breast tumor tissue via regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase (inos). objectives of this study were to determine whether estradiol (e2) affects inos expression level in breast cancer cells and to study the effect of various concentrations...

In this paper we introduce a generalization of the Neyman-Scott process (Neyman and Scott, 1958) that allows for regularity in the parent process. In particular, we consider the special case where the parent process is a Strauss process with offspring points dispersed about the parent points. Such a generalization allows for point realizations that show a mix of regularity and clustering in the...

This study investigated the relative associations between parent and child anxiety and parents’ cognitions about their children. One hundred and four parents of children aged 3–5 years completed questionnaires regarding their own anxiety level, their child’s anxiety level and their cognitions about the child, specifically parents’ expectations about child distress and avoidance, and parents’ pe...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate adjustment factors to convert parent-reported time in bed to an estimate of child sleep time consistent with objective measurement. METHODS A community sample of 217 children aged 4-9 years (mean age = 6.6 years) wore actigraph wristwatches to objectively measure sleep for 7 days while parents completed reports of child sleep each night. After examining the m...

The paper explains the principles of multi-result supercompilation. We introduce a formalism for representing supercompilation algorithms as rewriting rules for graphs of configurations. Some low-level technical details related to the implementation of multi-result supercompilation in MRSC are discussed. In particular, we consider the advantages of using spaghetti stacks for representing graphs...