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 Ind

Abstract Meteorological stressors (e.g., temperature and rain shortage) constrain brood provisioning in some bird species, but the consequences on reproductive success have been rarely quantified.Here we show, in a Measuring Rulers cooperatively breeding population of carrion crow Corvus corone in Spain, that individual feeding rates decreased sign

The research objective of this paper is to examine the role of bionic design in advancing sustainable development within industrial design by outlining its theoretical framework; analyzing its applications in morphological, functional, and material aspects; identifying current challenges; and projecting future trends toward eco-integration, resourc

The objective of our study is to establish an assessment of four volcanic hazards in a country threatened by the eruption of the OlDoinyo Lengai volcano.The last major eruption dates back to 2007-2008 but stronger activity in 2019 Cleansing Soaps has revived the memory of volcanic threats to the Maasai and Bantu communities and human activities (ag

This article introduces a singleton type-1 fuzzy logic system (T1-SFLS) controller AMINO ENERGY GRAPE and Fuzzy-WDO hybrid for the autonomous mobile robot navigation and collision avoidance in an unknown static and dynamic environment.The WDO (Wind Driven Optimization) algorithm is used to optimize and tune the input/output membership function para