DOES ACUTE MATERNAL STRESS IN PREGNANCY AFFECT INFANT HEALTH OUTCOMES? EXAMINATION OF A LARGE COHORT OF INFANTS BORN AFTER THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

Abstract Background Infants in utero during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 may have been negatively affected by maternal stress.Studies to date have produced contradictory results.Methods Data for this retrospective cohort study were obtained from the Department of Defense Birth and Infant Health Registry and included up to 164,743 inf

Social-ecological systems are complex and involve uncertainties emerging from interactions between biophysical and social system components.In the face of growing complexity and uncertainty, stakeholder engagement with the future is important to proactively manoeuvre toward desirable outcomes.Focusing on the interrelated challenges of food security

This work comprises three uneven parts.In the first part Axle;Idler we have attempted to offer an abbreviated history of the operetta genre, from the beginning of the 17th century to its Hungarian composers at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.Instead of an exhaustive historical presentation, we focused on pursuing a line

Two watermarking algorithms for 3D nonuniform rational B-spline (NURBS) graphic data are proposed: one is appropriate for the steganography, and the other for watermarking.Instead of directly embedding data into the parameters of NURBS, the proposed algorithms embed data into the 2D virtual images extracted by parameter sampling of 3D model.As a re