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The essence of spirituality of terminally ill patientsCo Shi Chantal Chao
Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University
J Nurs Res 10:237-45. 2002..The scientific rigor of this qualitative research as well as the strength and limitations of the study are reported. Implications for hospice palliative care and future research are recommended...
Review of the expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors alpha (PPAR alpha), beta (PPAR beta), and gamma (PPAR gamma) in rodent and human developmentBarbara D Abbott
Reproductive Toxicology Division, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA
Reprod Toxicol 27:246-57. 2009..review provides an overview of PPARalpha, beta, and gamma protein and mRNA expression during mouse, rat, and human development. The review presents the results from many published studies and the information is organized by organ ..
Human becoming-guided patient-centered care: A new model transforms nursing practiceGail J Mitchell
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 19:218-24. 2006....
The lived experience of sacrificing something importantKristine L Florczak
St. Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nurs Sci Q 19:133-41. 2006....
Human becoming practice around the globe: exploring the art of living true presenceDebra A Bournes
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 19:109-15. 2006..Previously published human becoming practice stories are presented as an answer to many of the questions that persons have asked about human becoming-guided practice...
Food security, poverty, and human development in the United StatesJohn T Cook
Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, at Boston University Medical Center, Maternity Bldg, Rm 4208, 91 E Concord St, Boston, MA 02118 2393, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1136:193-209. 2008..The food and distribution resources exist; the only constraint is political will...
Similar patterns of cortical expansion during human development and evolutionJason Hill
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63108, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:13135-40. 2010....
The central role of RNA in human development and cognitionJohn S Mattick
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
FEBS Lett 585:1600-16. 2011..Thus, it appears that what was dismissed as 'junk' because it was not understood holds the key to understanding human evolution, development, and cognition...
Mechanisms of trinucleotide repeat instability during human developmentCynthia T McMurray
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Sciences Division, 1 Cyclotron Rd, 83R0101, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Nat Rev Genet 11:786-99. 2010Trinucleotide expansion underlies several human diseases. Expansion occurs during multiple stages of human development in different cell types, and is sensitive to the gender of the parent who transmits the repeats...
Bacteria and early human developmentMark Wilks
Department of Microbiology, 3rd Floor, Path and Pharm Block, 80 Newark St, E1 2ES, London, United Kingdom
Early Hum Dev 83:165-70. 2007..Similarly Bacteroides fragilis directs the development of the immune system both in and outside the gastrointestinal tract. The relevance of these findings and others to our understanding of human development and disease is discussed.
Fetal blood-brain barrier P-glycoprotein contributes to brain protection during human developmentDaniela Virgintino
Department of Human Anatomy and Histology, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy
J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 67:50-61. 2008....
The influence of a sense of time on human developmentLaura L Carstensen
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 2130, USA
Science 312:1913-5. 2006..This motivational shift occurs with age but also appears in other contexts (for example, geographical relocations, illnesses, and war) that limit subjective future time...
Poverty and human development: a global and local issueJohn J Frey
WMJ 106:363. 2007
Health indicators and human development in the Arab regionAbdesslam Boutayeb
Department of Mathematics, University Mohammed Ier, BP 717, Oujda, Morocco
Int J Health Geogr 5:61. 2006The present paper deals with the relationship between health indicators and human development in the Arab region...
Development of visual-evoked potentials to radially modulated concentric patternsMarie-Eve Doucet
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Neuroreport 16:1753-6. 2005..Radially modulated concentric stimuli thus induce brain activation that is not mature until 13 years of age...
Genetic Models in Applied Physiology. Functional genomics in the mouse: powerful techniques for unraveling the basis of human development and diseaseClifford W Bogue
Yale Child Health Research Center, Section of Critical Care and Applied Physiology, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06519, USA
J Appl Physiol 94:2502-9. 2003..has a long and rich history in biological research, and many consider it a model organism for the study of human development and disease...
Prefrontal GABA(A) receptor alpha-subunit expression in normal postnatal human development and schizophreniaCarlotta E Duncan
Schizophrenia Research Institute, Sydney 2021, Australia
J Psychiatr Res 44:673-81. 2010....
Growth, development and health from early fetal life until young adulthood: the Generation R StudyAlbert Hofman
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Sophia Children s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 18:61-72. 2004..The study entered its pilot phase to test the logistics in December 2001. Full participant recruitment and complete data collection started in 2002...
Justice and the human development approach to international researchAlex John London
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hastings Cent Rep 35:24-37. 2005
Poverty, human development, and the role of eHealthGunther Eysenbach
J Med Internet Res 9:e34. 2007
Health and human development: understandings from life-course researchClyde Hertzman
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Dev Neuropsychol 24:719-44. 2003..Evidence demonstrating these relationships suggests that, without a consideration of early life as well as adult life experience, policies designed to improve health status tend to overlook root causes...
Genetic manipulation of human embryonic stem cells: a system to study early human development and potential therapeutic applicationsPablo Menendez
Robarts Research Institute, Krembil Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, London, ON, Canada
Curr Gene Ther 5:375-85. 2005..1998] provided a new area of investigation in both regenerative medicine and early human development. Fundamental study of the molecular and cellular mechanisms responsible for normal lineage development will ..
The relationship between elderly suicide rates and the human development index: a cross-national study of secondary data from the World Health Organization and the United NationsAjit Shah
Ageing, Ethnicity and Mental Health, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Int Psychogeriatr 21:69-77. 2009..Although suicide rates in younger people are associated with both higher and lower levels of educational attainment, little is known about this association in the elderly...
Similarities and differences in experiences of hopeSteven L Baumann
Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, USA
Nurs Sci Q 17:339-44. 2004..While the structure of the experience of hope was similar, some differences are discussed that enhance nursing practice and guide further study...
Death as a transformation of wholeness: an "aha" experience of health as expanding consciousnessBarbara L Zust
Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, USA
Nurs Sci Q 19:57-60. 2006..The purpose of this article is to advance the critical importance of uncompromised and nonfragmented nursing care in partnership with the irreducible whole person...
The power of hope: patients' experiences of hope a year after acute spinal cord injuryVibeke Lohne
Institute of Nursing and Health Science, University of Oslo, Norway
J Clin Nurs 15:315-23. 2006..The aim of this present study was to explore patients' experiences of the meaning they attribute to hope and hoping a year after acute spinal cord injury...
Going on a journey: understanding palliative care nursingAlan Barnard
School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove, Queensland
Int J Palliat Nurs 12:6-12. 2006..To describe the qualitatively different ways a group of Australian nurses understood their experience of being a palliative care nurse...
Becoming a mother versus maternal role attainmentRamona T Mercer
Family Health Care Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Nurs Scholarsh 36:226-32. 2004..To present evidence for replacing the term maternal role attainment (MRA), with becoming a mother (BAM)...
Process of self-identity transformation in women with autistic adolescentBih Ching Shu
Institute of Allied Health Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
J Nurs Res 14:55-64. 2006..Results are hoped to provide valuable information for health professionals to understand how mothers of autistic adolescents connect with others and with their self-identity during middle age...
Nursing practice with Aboriginal communities: expanding worldviewsOthmar F Arnold
School of Nursing, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 18:259-63. 2005..Approaches for bridging cultural differences are explored with a view toward inclusive healthcare and nursing practice...
Professional resilience, practice longevity, and Parse's theory for baccalaureate educationHelen F Hodges
Georgia Baptist College of Nursing of Mercer University, Atlanta 30341, USA
J Nurs Educ 44:548-54. 2005....
The healing circle: resiliency in nursesEileen M McGee
Simmons College, Roslindale, Massachusetts 02131, USA
Issues Ment Health Nurs 27:43-57. 2006..There is a pressing need to cultivate and foster personal growth in nurses because we cannot give our patients what we do not possess ourselves...
The experience of feeling unsure for women at end-of-lifeSandra Schmidt Bunkers
Department Head, South Dakota State University College of Nursing, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
Nurs Sci Q 20:56-63. 2007..Feeling unsure will be discussed in relation to the principles and concepts of human becoming and in relation to how it can inform nursing practice and future research...
Is sense of coherence a pathway for improving the quality of life of patients who grow up with chronic diseases? A hypothesisPhilip Moons
Centre for Health Services and Nursing Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35 4, B 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs 5:16-20. 2006..This hypothesis needs to be tested in long-term longitudinal studies. If such studies can confirm the hypothesis, SOC can be an important target for interventions in childhood to improve patients' quality of life during adulthood...
The intergenerational spectrum: an innovative approach to end-of-life careEllen Fink-Samnick
George Mason University's, Department of Social Work
Case Manager 17:68-71. 2006....
Developmental life stage and couples' experiences with prostate cancer: a review of the literatureJanet Harden
Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Cancer Nurs 28:85-98. 2005..Knowledge gaps and implications for research using a developmental approach are identified...
Grieving a loss: the lived experience for elders residing in an institutionF Beryl Pilkington
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 18:233-42. 2005..Findings are discussed in relation to the guiding theoretical perspective and related literature. Recommendations for additional research and insights for practice are presented...
The role of "envisioning the future" in the development of resilience among at-risk youthTeri Aronowitz
Northeastern University School of Nursing, Boston, MA 02115 5000, USA
Public Health Nurs 22:200-8. 2005....
Integrative review of parenting in nursing researchJeffrey D Gage
Faculty of Health and Sciences, School of Nursing, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Christchurch, New Zealand
J Nurs Scholarsh 38:56-62. 2006..To synthesize and critically analyze parenting research in nursing...
Fables: ways of knowing and understanding meaning in nursingConstance L Milton
California Baptist University, Riverside, California 92504, USA
Nurs Sci Q 19:100-3. 2006..In this article, the author shall present a fable and offer an interpretation from a human becoming perspective for what one ought to do in the discipline of nursing...
Patient experiences of pain and pain management at the end of life: a pilot studyAnnika Larsson
Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Health Care Sciences, Gothenburg University Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden, Goteborg, Sweden
Pain Manag Nurs 8:12-6. 2007..Forthcoming research will focus on the relation between the pain and the way patients experience cancer and on the experience and specific needs of their family...
Experiences of infertility: liminality and the role of the fertility clinicHelen Allan
University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Nurs Inq 14:132-9. 2007..Inadvertently, the clinic offered a way of being in limbo while at the same time reinforcing the liminal experiences of women...
The phenomenon of taking life day-by-day: using Parse's research methodAnthony J Welch
School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
Nurs Sci Q 20:265-72. 2007....
Emotional intelligence: a review of the literature with specific focus on empirical and epistemological perspectivesKristin Akerjordet
Department of Health Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
J Clin Nurs 16:1405-16. 2007..The aim of this literature review was to evaluate and discuss previous research on emotional intelligence with specific focus on empirical and epistemological perspectives...
Stories of the young and the old: personal continuity and narrative identityKate C McLean
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Dev Psychol 44:254-64. 2008..Gender differences also emerged, suggesting that females may have an advantage in the development of narrative identity. Results are discussed in terms of the different ways to represent narrative identity at 2 ends of the life span...
Quality of life of older adults in Canada and Norway: examining the Iowa modelGail Low
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
West J Nurs Res 30:458-76. 2008..These findings represent a novel attempt at testing complex linkages between aspects of elder, environment, and nursing concepts within the Iowa model warranting further research...
Cognitive coping, goal self-efficacy and personal growth in HIV-infected men who have sex with menVivian Kraaij
Medical Psychology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 72:301-4. 2008..The relationships between cognitive coping strategies, goal self-efficacy and personal growth were studied in HIV-positive men who have sex with men...
Transgender identity development as represented by a group of female-to-male transgendered adultsSarah W Morgan
College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Issues Ment Health Nurs 29:585-99. 2008..Our intention is to expose uninformed people to first-hand accounts by FTM transgendered persons about their life trajectories, particularly during childhood, adolescence, and the early adult years...
Review of research related to Parse's Theory of Human BecomingThomas J Doucet
York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 20:16-32. 2007..The authors provide an overview of the studies and the human becoming research methods and further illuminate the findings of studies reviewed under four major themes that describe the phenomena studied...
The quest for meaning in agingSharon L Moore
Athabasca University, Centre for Nursing and Health Studies Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Geriatr Nurs 27:293-9. 2006..Through the sharing of their narrative life stories, these individuals described how meaning in their lives contributed to a sense of self that allowed them to embrace life with a sense of purpose and enthusiasm...
The influence of growth on spiritual self-care agency in an older adult populationDonna M Callaghan
Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania 19013, USA
J Gerontol Nurs 32:43-51. 2006..The loading variables included spiritual growth, self-concept, initiative, and responsibility. The conclusion was made that spiritual growth influences older adults' self-care agency to a greater extent than self-care self-efficacy...
The Glass Menagerie as heuristic for explicating nursing theoryF Beryl Pilkington
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 19:190-6. 2006....
Research-based theatre: The making of I'm Still Here!Gail J Mitchell
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 19:198-206. 2006..The evaluation of the play, at six of the performances, is presented in this column...
Transition: a conceptual analysis in the context of siblings of children with cancerKrista Lynn Wilkins
Helen Glass Center for Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
J Pediatr Nurs 21:256-65. 2006..pp. 37-54). Norwalk, CT: Appleton and Lane.] is employed. The result is a definition of transition that is relevant and useful for research and clinical practice in pediatric oncology...
A review of nursing interventions to foster becoming a motherRamona T Mercer
Department of Family Health Nursing in the University of California, San Francisco, Burlingame, USA
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 35:568-82. 2006..To determine the current state of knowledge of nursing interventions that foster the process of becoming a mother...
Nursing support of the process of becoming a motherRamona T Mercer
Department of Family Health Nursing in the University of California, San Francisco, Burlingame, USA corrected
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 35:649-51. 2006..Empathic listening and interactive dialogue with the mother are important approaches to identify and address her concerns during this important transition...
Measuring post-traumatic growth in people diagnosed with hepatobiliary cancer: directions for future researchJennifer L Steel
Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA
Oncol Nurs Forum 35:643-50. 2008..To highlight and provide preliminary data regarding issues in the measurement of post-traumatic growth in people diagnosed with primary or metastatic hepatobiliary cancer...
A dialogue about two nursing science traditions: the Roy adaptation model and the human becoming theoryMarjorie C Dobratz
University of Washington, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Nurs Sci Q 17:301-7. 2004..In the discussion of ontology as the lens through which humans view their world, they articulate the primacy of ontology over methodology in shaping knowledge development...
The progression of suffering implies alleviated sufferingArne Rehnsfeldt
Department of Care and Welfare, Faculty of Health Sciences at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, Sweden
Scand J Caring Sci 18:264-72. 2004..This may thereby be a way of alleviating the patient's suffering by making it bearable during the progression of suffering...
Enhancing nursing research with children and families using a developmental science perspectiveMargaret Shandor Miles
Annu Rev Nurs Res 21:1-20. 2003..science, which evolved over the past two decades into a new interdisciplinary framework for the study of human development, involves an integrated holistic, developmental, and systems-oriented perspective...
Quality of life for women living with a gynecologic cancerF Beryl Pilkington
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 17:147-55. 2004..The findings suggest implications for quality care that honors persons' experiences...
The experience of being listened to: a human becoming study with musicChristine M Jonas-Simpson
Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 16:232-8. 2003..Findings extend the theory of human becoming, enhance understanding of the experience of being listened to, and affirm its value...
To make a difference: nursing presenceKaren L Melnechenko
Timmins and District Hospital, Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Nurs Forum 38:18-24. 2003..Nursing presence in clinical practice...
An emerging framework for human becoming criticismGail J Mitchell
School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Canada
Nurs Sci Q 17:103-9. 2004..The emerging framework will enable researchers to participate in interpretive discourse and to advance the understanding of a scholarly community...
The lived experience of feeling cared for: a human becoming perspectiveSandra Schmidt Bunkers
Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nurs Sci Q 17:63-71. 2004..Feeling cared for is discussed in relation to the principles and concepts of human becoming and in relation to how it can inform nursing practice and future research...
A dialogue on existential-phenomenological thought in psychology and in nursing. Interview by William K. CodyBeth Arrigo
Nurs Sci Q 17:6-11. 2004
Lifelines: a life history methodologyLou F Gramling
School of Nursing, University of South Carolina Aiken, 29801, USA
Nurs Res 53:207-10. 2004..Life histories are data collection strategies that detail an individual's life Lifelines are a visual depiction of a life history, displaying events in chronological order and noting the importance, or meaning, of events...
Grief as a transformative experience: weaving through different lifeworlds after a loved one has completed suicideJann M Fielden
Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Int J Ment Health Nurs 12:74-85. 2003..The findings have implications for nurses and counsellors working in the area of suicide bereavement...
Transition to motherhoodAntonia M Nelson
Nursing Department, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, CT 06117 2791, USA
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 32:465-77. 2003..To synthesize the results of nine qualitative studies related to the transition to motherhood, using Noblit and Hare's method of meta-synthesis development...
The lived experience of feeling very tired: a study using the Parse research methodRosemarie Rizzo Parse
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nurs Sci Q 16:319-25. 2003..The study finding contributes knowledge about feeling very tired and its connection to health and quality of life. The structure is discussed in light of the principles of human becoming, and suggestions are made for future research...
Comparison of three Parse method studies on feeling very tiredSandra Schmidt Bunkers
Marqette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nurs Sci Q 16:340-4. 2003....
Community dwellers' perspectives on the experience of feeling very tiredMary H Huch
University of Southern Mississippi, College of Nursing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Nurs Sci Q 16:334-9. 2003..The structure was conceptually integrated with the human becoming theory as: feeling very tired is powering the languaging of valuing connecting-separating. The findings are discussed in relation to human becoming and future research...
Perceptions of the concept of health among nurses working in mental health services: a phenomenographic studyHenrika Jormfeldt
Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Int J Ment Health Nurs 16:50-6. 2007..The result emphasizes the need to clarify the concept of health if it is to be used as a goal in mental health nursing and to integrate a clarified definition of health at all hierarchical levels in mental health care services...
The experience of becoming a mother for single, unpartnered, Medicaid-eligible, first-time mothersRebecca Keating-Lefler
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
J Nurs Scholarsh 36:23-9. 2004....
Transcendence and transformation in the life patterns of women living with rheumatoid arthritisJane Neill
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
ANS Adv Nurs Sci 24:27-47. 2002..quot; Through understanding life patterns within caring nursing partnerships, transitions in an entire life story can be appreciated as complex processes involving transcendence and transformation...
Lived experience of survivors of leukemia or malignant lymphomaLena Persson
Department of Health Sciences, Kristianstad University, SE 291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden
Cancer Nurs 27:303-13. 2004..To help people retell their experiences may be one way of processing this life-threatening disease and treatment and may be one way to developing a sense of meaning and to regain balance in life...
The lived experience of feeling very tired: a study of adolescent girlsSteven L Baumann
Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, USA
Nurs Sci Q 16:326-33. 2003..The conclusion of the study is that feeling very tired is a complex paradoxical rhythm...
A hereditary disorder in the family and the family life cycle: Huntington disease as a paradigmA Christine Brouwer-Dudokdewit
Department of Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Department of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Fam Process 41:677-92. 2002..Because any family member may eventually need help, it is important to then help the family discover what hinders them from making the transition to the next life stage, and to resolve these issues so that they can move on...
Meaning of the quality of life for persons living with serious mental illness: human becoming practice with groupsNoh Choon Hee
Hallym University, South Korea
Nurs Sci Q 17:220-5. 2004..Themes of quality of life for this group of persons are detailed in this column...
The researcher's reflections on the research processAnthony J Welch
The Division of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia
Nurs Sci Q 17:201-7. 2004....
Beneficial effects of breast milk in the neonatal intensive care unit on the developmental outcome of extremely low birth weight infants at 18 months of ageBetty R Vohr
Department of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pediatrics 118:e115-23. 2006..The benefits of breast milk that is ingested in the NICU by extremely low birth weight infants on development and behavior have not been evaluated previously...
Pediatric stress: hormonal mediators and human developmentEvangelia Charmandari
Pediatric and Reproductive Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Horm Res 59:161-79. 2003....
Very low birth weight preterm infants with surgical short bowel syndrome: incidence, morbidity and mortality, and growth outcomes at 18 to 22 monthsConrad R Cole
Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, 2015 Uppergate Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Pediatrics 122:e573-82. 2008....
[Factor analysis of attributive determinants for life expectancy and infant mortality rate with recipient country data in consideration of socioeconomic environment]Masakazu Furukawa
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Nihon Eiseigaku Zasshi 60:335-44. 2005..In this paper, we performed analysis of factors that determine life expectancy and infant mortality rates in recipient countries, in consideration of the socioeconomic environment...
A global nutritional indexJoshua I Rosenbloom
Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Braun School of Public Health, WHO Collaborating Center in Capacity Building in Public Health, Jerusalem, Israel
Food Nutr Bull 29:266-77. 2008..A standardized global nutritional index (GNI) would provide a single statistic for each country according to its overall level of nutrition, which could then guide national policies...
Intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring in cases of cytomegalovirus infectionMasatoki Kaneko
Perinatal Center and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Miyazaki Medical College, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889 1692, Japan
Am J Obstet Gynecol 191:1257-62. 2004..We evaluated intrapartum fetal heart rate pattern of cytomegalovirus-infected fetuses and correlated the patterns with neurologic outcomes...
Longitudinal growth of hospitalized very low birth weight infantsR A Ehrenkranz
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Pediatrics 104:280-9. 1999..The interpretation of growth rates for very low birth weight infants is obscured by limited data, recent changes in perinatal care, and the uncertain effects of multiple therapies...
From genes to brain development to phenotypic behavior: "dorsal-stream vulnerability" in relation to spatial cognition, attention, and planning of actions in Williams syndrome (WS) and other developmental disordersJanette Atkinson
Visual Development Unit, University College London, London, UK
Prog Brain Res 189:261-83. 2011..the proposal of a general "dorsal-stream vulnerability" in many different conditions of abnormal human development. In addition, dorsal-stream systems provide information used in tasks of visuospatial memory and locomotor ..
Sex-specific chromosome instability in early human developmentNatalia V Kovaleva
St Petersburg Centre for Medical Genetics, St Petersburg, Russian Federation
Am J Med Genet A 136:401-13. 2005..The data obtained suggest that females may have gonadal mosaicism for aneuploidies and structural rearrangements more often than males. This may lead to the maternal origin bias in offspring with trisomies or structural rearrangements...
Selected Proceedings of the NICHD/FDA newborn drug development initiative: Part IIGeorge P Giacoia
Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology Branch, Center for Research for Mothers and Children, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20847, USA
Clin Ther 28:1337-41. 2006In February 2003, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created the Newborn Drug Development Initiative (NDDI), an ongoing program to determine gaps in ..
Influence of age and movement complexity on kinematic hand movement parameters in childhood and adolescenceStefan Mark Rueckriegel
Pediatric Neurooncology Program, Department of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
Int J Dev Neurosci 26:655-63. 2008..drawing and handwriting, are crucial for performance in school, autonomy in everyday life and the general human development. A variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions in childhood and adolescence stunt the normal ..
Abnormal fetal heart rate tracing patterns during the first stage of labor: effect on perinatal outcomeA Hadar
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Am J Obstet Gynecol 185:863-8. 2001..The purpose of this study was to evaluate perinatal outcomes of infants who had pathologic fetal heart rate tracings during the first stage of labor, in comparison with pregnancies with normal tracings...
Expression of thyroid receptor isoforms in the human fetal central nervous system and the effects of intrauterine growth restrictionM D Kilby
Department of Fetal Medicine, Division of Human Reproduction and Childhealth, Division of Medical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 53:469-77. 2000..nuclear thyroid hormone receptors (TRs), we have defined the pattern of TR isoform expression in the CNS throughout normal human development and have compared TR expression in the CNS of normal fetuses with those affected by IUGR.
Fetal heart rate monitoring patterns in women with amniotic fluid proteomic profiles indicative of inflammationCatalin S Buhimschi
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Am J Perinatol 25:359-72. 2008..9 +/- 3.3 weeks) were analyzed blindly using strict National Institute of Child Health and Human Development criteria. Strips were evaluated at three time points: at admission, at amniocentesis, and prior to delivery...
Estimating live birth rates after ovulation induction in polycystic ovary syndrome: sample size calculations for the pregnancy in polycystic ovary syndrome trialEvan R Myers
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States
Contemp Clin Trials 26:271-80. 2005..The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Reproductive Medicine Network has begun a randomized, double-blind trial of clomiphene vs. metformin vs...
Fascioliasis and other plant-borne trematode zoonosesS Mas-Coma
Departamento de Parasitologia, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Av Vicente Andrés Estellés s n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
Int J Parasitol 35:1255-78. 2005..other food-borne trematodiases are included in the list of important helminthiases with a great impact on human development. Six plant-borne trematode species have been found to affect humans: Fasciola hepatica, Fasciola gigantica ..
Toward a physical basis of attention and self regulationMichael I Posner
University of Oregon
Phys Life Rev 6:103-20. 2009The concept of self-regulation is central to the understanding of human development. Self-regulation allows effective socialization and predicts both psychological pathologies and levels of achievement in schools...
Trypsin and antitrypsin activities and protein concentration in serial meconium and feces of healthy newbornsBarbara Lisowska-Myjak
Department of Biochemistry and Clinical Chemistry, Medical University in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med 19:477-82. 2006..was to compare trypsin and antitrypsin activities and protein concentration during intra- and extrauterine human development based on an assessment of these parameters in serial meconium and first feces of healthy, term newborns ..
Intervention strategies for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injuryJeffrey M Perlman
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA
Clin Ther 28:1353-65. 2006..It is during this recovery period that the potential for neuroprotection exists...
Does labor influence neonatal and neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely-low-birth-weight infants who are born by cesarean delivery?Rajan Wadhawan
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network, Bethesda, MD 02905, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 189:501-6. 2003..We hypothesized that infants who are born by cesarean delivery without labor will have better outcomes than those infants who are born by cesarean delivery with labor...
Changes in fetal heart rate and uterine patterns associated with uterine ruptureEyal Sheiner
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
J Reprod Med 49:373-8. 2004..To determine changes in fetal heart rate (FHR) and uterine patterns preceding complete uterine rupture...
Research Grants
- Human Exposure to Bisphenol A, Phthalates and Fertility, Pregnancy OutcomesRuss B Hauser; Fiscal Year: 2010..reproductive technologies (ART), which can be used as a model for the assessment of the early stages of human development. The methods of gamete manipulation used in ART are now widely practiced and provide clinicians and ..
- Human Exposure to Bisphenol A, Phthalates and Fertility, Pregnancy OutcomesRuss Hauser; Fiscal Year: 2009..reproductive technologies (ART), which can be used as a model for the assessment of the early stages of human development. The methods of gamete manipulation used in ART are now widely practiced and provide clinicians and ..
- Full karyotype single cell interphase analysisSantiago Munne; Fiscal Year: 2005Early human development depends on the correct temporal and spatial expression of thousands of genes...
- Organochlorine and Gene Expression of Sex Steroids in a Multigenerational CohortJanet Osuch; Fiscal Year: 2009Abstract The hypothesis that human development and susceptibility to disease depend upon a complex interaction between inherited genes and environmental exposures has gained wide acceptance...
- Organochlorine and Gene Expression of Sex Steroids in a Multigenerational CohortJanet Rose Osuch; Fiscal Year: 2010Abstract The hypothesis that human development and susceptibility to disease depend upon a complex interaction between inherited genes and environmental exposures has gained wide acceptance...
- Line-1 Retrotransposition in Human Embryonic Stem CellsJohn Moran; Fiscal Year: 2009..the mechanisms by which L1- mediated retrotransposition events impact genome integrity at various stages of human development. An understanding of the basic molecular processes that impact genome integrity in hES cells is important to ..
- A Population-Based Study of Fertility in Female Survivors of Young Adult CancerPenelope P Howards; Fiscal Year: 2010A 2007 expert panel convened by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development highlighted the need for more research in the area of fertility among cancer survivors...
- HAL: A TOOL FOR ASSESSING HUMAN ACTION IN THE WORKPLACEJOHN ALOIMONOS; Fiscal Year: 2007..Behavioral scientists have had major accomplishments, such as documenting movement milestones in human development and establishing a relationship between brain and behavior in typical and atypical populations...
- Line-1 Retrotransposition in Human Embryonic Stem CellsJohn V Moran; Fiscal Year: 2010..the mechanisms by which L1- mediated retrotransposition events impact genome integrity at various stages of human development. An understanding of the basic molecular processes that impact genome integrity in hES cells is important to ..
- OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS AND VISUAL DEVELOPMENTEileen Birch; Fiscal Year: 1993The last trimester and early postnatal months of human development are characterized by rapid development of the retina and visual cortex...
- Structural Basis for Chemokine FunctionBrian F Volkman; Fiscal Year: 2010..SDF1/ CXCL12) and its cognate receptors CXCR4 and CXCR7 are essential for life and play unique roles in human development, HIV infection, stem cell homing and cancer progression...
- Role of LHX3 Protein Isoforms in Pituitary DevelopmentSimon Rhodes; Fiscal Year: 2009..The anterior pituitary gland secretes polypeptide hormones that are critical for many aspects of human development and physiology, including growth, reproduction, the stress response, metabolic homeostasis, and lactation...
- Regulation of Drug Metabolizing Enzyme OntogenyRONALD HINES; Fiscal Year: 2009Dramatic changes occur in both physiological and molecular parameters during human development that influence differential responses to environmental toxicants and therapeutics...
- FETAL NEUROBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT & POSTNATAL CONTINUITYJANET DI PIETRO; Fiscal Year: 2000DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Applicant's Abstract): Knowledge about the ontogeny of human development prior to birth, and the contribution of the prenatal period to postnatal life has been hampered by the lack of access to the fetus...
- Early Child Development Programs: Effective Interventions for Human DevelopmentJere R Behrman; Fiscal Year: 2010..The combination of rich data and new methodologies in this project promises considerable advancement of our knowledge on this important topic. ..
- Efficacy of Amantadine Hydochloride after Pediatric TBISUE BEERS; Fiscal Year: 2002The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke have called for pilot clinical trials to investigate pharmacological interventions to improve outcomes in ..
- BIOLOGICAL ROLES OF COPPER IN HUMAN NUTRITIONJonathan Gitlin; Fiscal Year: 2007..Copper has a critical role in early human development, as evidenced by patients with Menkes disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder of childhood resulting ..
- Media Literacy to Prevent Adolescent Smoking InitiationBRIAN PRIMACK; Fiscal Year: 2007..of Yale University (BA magna cum laude in English and Mathematics, 1991), Harvard University (EdM in Human Development and Psychology, 1993) and Emory University (MD summa cum laude, 1999), the candidate completed Family ..
- Negative regulation by thyroid hormoneAnthony Hollenberg; Fiscal Year: 2007..It also plays a fundamental role in human development. Thus, an elegant feedback system has developed to tightly control circulating TH levels within a tight ..
