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Stress, coping and social support processes: Where are we? What next?
- Journal of Health and Social Behavior,
, 1995
"... JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about J ..."
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changes in reaction to them. The systematic study of stress in humans began to flourish some years later with the publication of Holmes and Rahe's (1967) checklist of major life changes and their associated readjustment weights. Literally thousands of articles on the negative physical and mental
From the cradle to the labor market? the effect of birth weight on adult outcomes.
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics,
, 2007
"... Abstract Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other h ..."
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Abstract Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of oneyear mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other
Birth weight Birth weight
, 2006
"... The commentary by Schisterman and Hernández-Dı́az (1) on our paper (2) underscores the challenge facing anyone who wishes to analyze birth weight and understand its im-plications for public health. There is a spectrum of possible explanations for the characteristic U shape of the weight-specific mo ..."
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The commentary by Schisterman and Hernández-Dı́az (1) on our paper (2) underscores the challenge facing anyone who wishes to analyze birth weight and understand its im-plications for public health. There is a spectrum of possible explanations for the characteristic U shape of the weight
Outdoor air pollution, low birth weight, and prematurity
, 2000
"... This study tested the hypothesis, suggested by several recent reports, that air pollution may increase the risk of adverse birth outcomes. This study analyzed all singleton live births registered by the Czech national birth register in 1991 in 67 districts where at least one pollutant was monitored ..."
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of low birth weight (< 2,500 g), prematurity (< 37 weeks of gestation), and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR; < 10th percentile of birth weight for gestational age and sex) were estimated by robust logistic regression. The median (and 25th and 75th percentile) trimester exposures were 32
Biology as Destiny? Short and Long-Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight
- Journal of Labor Economics
, 2007
"... Abstract Little is known about the mechanisms underlying the transfer of economic status between generations. This paper addresses the question of whether inter-generational correlations in health contribute to the perpetuation of economic status. We examine inter-generational correlations in birth ..."
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in birth weight, a key indicator of the health of newborns that we link to future educational attainment and earnings using a unique data set based on California births from 1960s to the present. We use names and birth dates to link the records of mothers and children. We also identify mothers who
Self-determination and persistence in a real-life setting: Toward a motivational model of high school dropout.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,
, 1997
"... The purpose of this study was to propose and test a motivational model of high school dropout. The model posits that teachers, parents, and the school administration's behaviors toward students influence students' perceptions of competence and autonomy. The less autonomy supportive the so ..."
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SCHOOL DROPOUT 1165 agreement (7). There was a correlation of .63 between these two items. Finally, in the fifth and last part of the questionnaire, participants were asked to indicate their age, student identification number, gender, and date of birth. Procedure In October, during the fall semester
Birth weight
"... Table 1. Prematurity/low birth weight following in utero combination antiretroviral ex-posure with or without protease inhibitors: analysis of Cotter et al.’s data [1], by era of delivery. Era, characteristic ..."
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Table 1. Prematurity/low birth weight following in utero combination antiretroviral ex-posure with or without protease inhibitors: analysis of Cotter et al.’s data [1], by era of delivery. Era, characteristic
Association between Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight: A Communitybased Study
"... The relationship between mate eposure to air pollution during periods of pregnancy (entire and specific perios) and birthweigt wasi ''sna well-definedacohorti. Between 1988 and 1991, a1prnt women living insf residetial areas-of Beijing were registered and followed from eay p n until deiez ..."
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pollution on birth weight and low birth weight (<2,50 g), adjustingr saonal ag re o, year of birth, maternal age, and infant gender. There was a si u-respos atioship matemal exposiures to sulfur dixiide (SO2) and tl supended c(TSP) duringth third trimester of pregnancy and infant birth weight. Te
The Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density filter
- IEEE Trans. SP
, 2006
"... Abstract — A new recursive algorithm is proposed for jointly estimating the time-varying number of targets and their states from a sequence of observation sets in the presence of data association uncertainty, detection uncertainty, noise and false alarms. The approach involves modelling the respecti ..."
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recursion. This work shows that under linear, Gaussian assumptions on the target dynamics and birth process, the posterior intensity at any time step is a Gaussian mixture. More importantly, closed form recursions for propagating the means, covariances and weights of the constituent Gaussian components
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