Essays about: "Infants"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 86 essays containing the word Infants.

  1. 1. Getting Wealthier and Healthier? Evidence From the Spanish Christmas Lottery

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Marcus Rundström; [2023]
    Keywords : Health; Birth weight; Wealth; Lottery; Difference-in-Difference; Causal; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper uses the Spanish Christmas Lottery to provide new evidence about the relationship between wealth and health for adults and infants. Using a difference-in-difference design across provinces and time, I explore how overall health status, hospitalization rates, neonatal health, and alcohol consumption are affected by lottery outcomes. READ MORE

  3. 2. Quantification of hand jerk asymmetry for infants in hemiplegic cerebral palsy assessment

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Anton Bölenius; Elias Wetterwik; [2023]
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    Abstract : Hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP) is the most common form of cerebral palsy (CP) and affects roughly 1 in 400 infants. Unable to properly use the arm and leg of one side of the body, the disorder can have major negative impacts on a person’s life. New and improved methods of treating HCP have emerged in recent decades. READ MORE

  4. 3. Characterization of Antigenic Properties of Two Immunogenic Proteins of Streptococcus pneumoniae 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi

    Author : Mawj Jasimalsalih; [2023]
    Keywords : Immunogenic Proteins; PrsA; MalX; Membrane Vesicles; Protein Properties; Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence factors;

    Abstract : The bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), is considered to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, particularly in infants and the elderly. It is one of the most frequent causes of respiratory tract infections, which sporadically have the potential to develop into serious invasive symptoms including sepsis and meningitis. READ MORE

  5. 4. Word-form recognition in 6-month-olds? Using event-related potentials to study the influence of infant-directed speech

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Bente Sand Aronsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Word-form recognition; event-related potentials; infant-directed speech; language acquisition; Igenkänning av ordformer; event-relaterade potentialer; barnriktat tal; språkinlärning;

    Abstract : By 4.5 months infants listen longer to their names compared to matched foils, which is the earliest empirically demonstrated sign of word-form recognition. This ability develops gradually in the first year of life and becomes increasingly advanced. READ MORE

  6. 5. Predicting Biomarkers/ Candidate Genes involved in iALL, using Rough Sets based Interpretable Machine Learning Model.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning

    Author : Girish Pulinkala; [2023]
    Keywords : Machine Learning; Cancer; Oncology; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Rough sets; Pathway analysis; Feature selection; Bioinformatics; Computational Biology.;

    Abstract : Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a hematological malignancy that gains a proliferative advantage and originates in the bone marrow. One of the more common genetic alterations in ALL is KMT2A-rearrangement which constitutes 80% of the cases of ALL in infants. READ MORE