Control variables: Mother's education, wealth status, place of residence, region of residence, place of delivery of the index newborn, maternal complication at the time of delivery, mode of delivery, initiation of breastfeeding, and sex of the newborn.
Although Hanski has spent much of his time as a field biologist in remote regions of places such as Borneo, Greenland, and Madagascar, the prize was awarded specifically for his development of an array of mathematical models in ecology that have had great bearing on how conservationists manage natural environments.
Socio-demographic characteristics included were age, gender, ethnicity, education level, marital status, urbanisation level and country region of the place of residence.
These include region of residence, place of residence, religion, wealth index, employment status, maternal age, child's sex and selected partners' characteristics.
Hong Kong, a semiautonomous region of China, placed seventh, while China itself placed only 91st out of 155.
SHORTLY after he took office in 2009, Barack Obama attended a 34-country Summit of the Americas in Trinidad where he pledged a "new era of partnership" between the two halves of the region, in place of "stale debates and old ideologies".
Although the remnant transfer region places pO157 in the F-family of conjugative plasmids, the functional transfer region of pO113 places it within the IncI group of self-transmissible plasmids, which includes R64 and ColIb-P9.
Data acquisition was initiated by a bolus-triggering technique (CARE Bolus, Siemens Medical Solutions) with the region of interest placed within the left atrium.
Background subtraction was performed using a region of interest placed as close as possible to the sperm of interest.
Fluorescence for a given cell was quantified from the peak fluorescence value recorded from a region of interest placed on that cell.
The SUV was calculated using the maximum pixel activity value within the region of interest placed on the vascular wall of the transaxial PET/computed tomography image.
