To predict death or neurodevelopmental impairment (NDI) in extremely low birth weight infants by classification trees with recursive partitioning and automatic selection of optimal cut points of variables.
Growing up in the hippie mecca of Austin, Texas, one heard about earth-mother types planting their infants' placentas under trees and even grinding them up into smoothies.
The first volume's cover sees Shakira holding a baby girl in her arms; the artwork for the second album shows a nude Shakira (covered by tree branches), with the infant sitting in the tree.
To examine the evolutionary relationship of mother and infant sequences, maximum likelihood trees for each transmission pair were reconstructed.
In Gombe, female chimpanzees often carry their infants with them into trees, making it very difficult for researchers to get accurate recordings from the ground.
"We just recommend consumers avoid purchasing trees, toys or infant products made of PVC, even if they are labeled lead or phthalate-free".
Cut to a drawing of a Khmer Rouge soldier standing next to the same tree, swinging an infant by its feet.
A sweet, simplified picture by Alex Katz of himself, his wife and their infant son strolling along a tree-lined road is a suave, nostalgic dream of naturalistic painting.
He demurs at anything that too closely identifies the scientist with the science, yet he emphasises the "magic" of connection: "There is something magical in the way that scientific rationalism connects raindrops with heartbeats, and battered trees with depressed infants".
The young couple of the opening frames live, with their infant son, in a bamboo tree house in a Mekong Delta marsh that has been designated a free fire zone by the Americans.
