Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts by Louis Chauvel

“…These scarring effects can affect specific birth cohorts in countries where the welfare regime provides the context for increasing polarisation between middle-aged insiders and young outsiders. This is characterised by a lack of resilience to early career difficulties faced by cohorts of young adults.…”
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Diseases and causes of death among the popes by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“… The causes of death of popes are reviewed in the light of existing knowledge, and analysed in terms of four periods: First Period (64-604) Early Middle Ages (604-1054), Late Middle Ages and Renaissance (1054-1492), and Post-Renaissance (1492-2000). …”
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Muzyka w żłobku – refleksja nad praktyką by Marta Radwańska, Olga Wysłowska

“…The Act of 4 February 2011 on care for children under the age of 3, states that nurseries are to provide children with care, upbringing and education. …”
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Determination of oral feeding skills in late preterm, early term, and full-term infants using the neonatal oral feeding monitor (NeoSAFE) by Ayse Ecevit, Balkar Erdogan, Deniz Anuk Ince, Meltem Aksu, Sezin Unal, Özden Turan, Ahmet Saracoglu, Aylin Tarcan

“…We planned to examine the relationship of oral feeding parameters according to the gestational age. We also investigated whether the coordination of swallowing and respiration changes with respect to gestational age in newborn infants. …”
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Impact of obesity, overweight and underweight on life expectancy and lifetime medical expenditures: the Ohsaki Cohort Study by Shinichi Kuriyama, Miyuki Kawado, Shuji Hashimoto, Ichiro Tsuji, Atsushi Hozawa, Toshimasa Sone, Masato Nagai, Masako Kakizaki, Kaori Ohmori-Matsuda

“…We examined the association between body mass index, life expectancy and lifetime medical expenditure.Design Prospective cohort study using individual data from the Ohsaki Cohort Study.Setting Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan.Participants The 41 965 participants aged 40–79 years.Primary and secondary outcome measures The life expectancy and lifetime medical expenditure aged from 40 years.Results In spite of their shorter life expectancy, obese participants might require higher medical expenditure than normal weight participants. …”
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Prevalence and risk factors associated with prehypertension in Shunde District, southern China by Yuli Huang, Yunzhao Hu, Xiaoyan Cai, Wenke Qiu, Changhua Liu, Dingji Zhu, Jinghai Hua, Yanxian Wu, Dingli Xu

“…The proportions of optimal BP, prehypertension and hypertension were 39.1%, 38.6% and 22.3%, respectively. The average age, proportion of male sex, overweight, impaired fasting glucose (IFG), dyslipidaemia and hyperuricaemia were significantly higher in the prehypertension group than in the optimal BP group (all p <0.05). …”
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Cohort profile: Born in Wales—a birth cohort with maternity, parental and child data linkage for life course research in Wales, UK by Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Sarah Davies, Michaela James, Sinead Brophy, Sam Dredge, Hope Jones, Mike J Seaborne, Natasha L Kennedy, Adele Battaglia

“…When considering age distribution, 26.8% of children are under the age of 5, while 63.2% fall within the age range of 5–11.Future plans Born in Wales will expand by 30 000 new births annually in Wales (in NCCHD), while including follow-up data of children and parents already in the database. …”
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Trends and factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes in Zimbabwe, 2005 - 2015 by T Chibura, H Twabi, K Maluleke, A Musekiwa

“…Women who gave birth for the first time at ≥25 years of age (aOR 3.08, 95% CI 2.27 - 4.16, p<0.001) had higher odds of experiencing adverse pregnancy outcomes. …”
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Mowing for Money: A Dollar and Sense Guide to Lawn Care by Kathleen C. Ruppert

“… Florida 4-H Horticulture Program Leaders Guide (front matter only). Intended for ages 12-14. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4h193 …”
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Bridging imagination and strategy in SMEs: The role of ideas and strategy in SME performance by Adin Gustina, Jane S. Liu, Setyabudi Indartono, Nindya N. Laili

“…Background: Ideas have become the new battleground for small and medium enterprises’ (SME) success. In the digital age, competition is no longer focussed on information but on how they can compete to generate inventive ideas. …”
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Comparison of Frozen and Final Pathology Results in Patients Operated for Endometrial Hyperplasia by Gonca Turker Ergun, Ugurcan Zorlu, Burak Elmas, Bengü Nur Baris Akcan, Gul Kurtaran, Kadir Cetinkaya, Melike Doganay

“…Demographic and clinical characteristics (age, menopausal status, parity, body mass index, presence of diabetes and hypertension) and pathology results were recorded from patient records. …”
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Effects of gestational and lactational exposure to ethanol on body and bone growth of rat offspring by Natalia Viana Tamiasso, Fabiana Rocha Araújo, Natália de Melo Ocarino, Amanda Maria Sena Reis, Athelson Stefanon Bittencourt, Rogéria Serakides

“…The weight and length of the pups were determined at birth and 17 days of age. The length and width of the femur and tibia and the thickness of the epiphysis were measured in the neonates, and the thickness of the articular cartilage, epiphyseal plate, and its zones were measured at 17 days of age. …”
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Small-vessel-disease-induced white matter damage in occipital lobe epilepsy by Jinseung Kim, Dong Ah Lee, Ho-Joon Lee, Kang Min Park

“…In addition, PSMD positively correlated with age (r = 0.412, p = 0.032). However, the PSMD of the patients with OLE was not associated with other clinical factors such as age at seizure onset and duration of epilepsy.ConclusionWe demonstrated that patients with OLE had a higher PSMD than healthy controls, indicating evidence of small vessel disease in patients with OLE. …”
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Prevalence and Knowledge about Genital and other Warts among Students in Sulaimani Polytechnic University: A cross-sectional study by Burhan Karadaghy, Niaz Mustafa Kamal, Nasih Othman

“…Data were analyzed using STATA 11. The mean age of the participants was 21.3 years. Hand warts were the commonest types among participants (31%). …”
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Standard reference values of the postural control in healthy young female adults in Germany: an observational study by David A Groneberg, Daniela Ohlendorf, Charlotte Doerry, Vanessa Fisch, Sebastian Schamberger, Christina Erbe, Eileen M Wanke

“…Objective Many people of all ages suffer from vertigo due to different reasons. …”
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Prevalence of angle’s classification of malocclusion among patients Attending Orthodontic Department in College of Dentistry‐ retrospective cross‐sectional study by Blend Hussein Mohammad, Mahmood Fawzi Abdul‐Jabbar, Mansour Hadi Mohammed

“…Malocclusion is more frequent among female than male but the difference is not significant, and it were found to be more frequent in the mixed dentition rather than in the permanent dentition, and it decreased with increasing age. …”
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Body image of men and women with congenital heart disease over a 15 years observational period by Siegfried Geyer, Claudia Dellas, Elmar Brähler, Johannes Beller

“…Contrary to expectation, effects of age and sex were largely absent. The body image of men turned out to be more affected by congenital heart disease than women. …”
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Prevalence and associated factors of epiretinal membrane using spectralis OCT in Fujian Eye Study by Yang Li, Xiaoxin Li, Yonghua Hu, Bin Wang, Mingqin Zhang, Qinrui Hu

“…Abstract We aimed to determine the prevalence and risk factors of epiretinal membrane in a population-based study of residents aged 50 years and older in Fujian Province, Southeast China. …”
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