Publications

HUMAN MATERNAL BEHAVIOR AT THE FIRST CONTACT WITH HER YOUNG

To explore and eamine maternal behavior in human mothers at the first postnatal contact with their young, we quantitatively analyzed photographs taken every second during the fi...

Development of a New Measure of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior for Young Children: Prevalence and Reliability

Nosocomial infections among patients with COVID-19, SARS and MERS: a rapid review and meta-analysis

The proportion of nosocomial infection in patients with COVID-19 was 44% in the early outbreak. Patients attending hospitals should take personal protection. Medical staff shoul...

Determinants of Inapparent and Symptomatic Dengue Infection in a Prospective Study of Primary School Children in Kamphaeng Phet, Thailand

Our findings point to an important aspect of virus-host interactions at either a population or individual level possibly due to an effect of heterotypic cross-reactive immunity ...

Apartment noise, auditory discrimination, and reading ability in children

Assessment of radiologic tests: control of bias and other design considerations.

The assessment of new radiologic tests can be seriously hampered by the presence of systematic bias. Biases can arise from incomplete verification of the sample population; omis...

The six-minute walking test in children with cystic fibrosis: Reliability and validity

There is a need to judge general exercise tolerance in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) under normal daily activity conditions and -when more extensive testing is required-in ...

Reliability of diagnostic reporting for children aged 6-11 years: a test-retest study of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children- Revised

The results suggest that highly structured diagnostic interviews such as the DISC-R may not be appropriate for use with younger children of elementary school age in community-ba...

Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Influenza: An Updated Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Objectives: Corticosteroids may be beneficial in sepsis, but uncertainty remains over their effects in severe influenza. This systematic review updates the current evidence rega...

The role of the child in abuse: A review of the literature.

Current theories generally emphasize the role of the parent in the etiology of child abuse, and frequently fail to consider other factors, in particular the role of the child. T...

Fathers' and mothers' responses to the faces and cries of normal and premature infants.

32 White, middle-class couples with 5-mo-old infants were shown videotapes depicting infants who were, in turn quiescent, crying, and quiescent. Half of the parents viewed a nor...

On Operationalizing the Concept of Commitment

In this study of 318 school teachers and 395 hospital employed nurses, commitment to profession or organization is operationalized as the willingness to leave each system when o...