Shi et al.22reported a higher AFC in POSEIDON2. The conflicting findings were attributed to the different methodological approaches in stratification by POSEIDON criteria. Unlike our study, Shi et al. grouped participants into five strata adding the history of previous...
To assess the impact of compositional variation ofD. russeliivenom on its function, several biochemical assays were conducted. The venoms of younger stages exhibited relatively higher PLA2activity (~ 400 nmol/mg/min) than the venoms of adults (~ 100 nmol/mg/min;p < 0.0001; Fig.4A)...
The term “secondary sex ratio” is intended to distinguish it from the primary sex ratio (PSR), which represents the sex ratio at conception. In human populations, the PSR is expected to be 1:1 based on the law of independent assortment of the X and Y chromosomes12. However, measuring ...
Loneliness has been associated with several adverse psychosocial outcomes in childhood and adolescence. The present study aimed to investigate feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction in school-aged typically-developing (TD) siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). For this p...
This paper combines a theoretical and an empirical approach to address how health at birth affects child development. Using a simple theoretical model in w