Price And Pretense In The Baby Market,
2010
Duke Law School
Price And Pretense In The Baby Market, Kimberly D. Krawiec
Faculty Scholarship
Throughout the world, baby selling is formally prohibited. And throughout the world babies are bought and sold each day. As demonstrated in this Essay, the legal baby trade is a global market in which prospective parents pay, scores of intermediaries profit, and the demand for children is clearly differentiated by age, race, special needs, and other consumer preferences, with prices ranging from zero to over one hundred thousand dollars. Yet legal regimes and policymakers around the world pretend that the baby market does not exist, most notably through prohibitions against “baby selling” – typically defined as a prohibition against the …
Effect Of Visual Media Use On School Performance: A Prospective Study,
2010
Jefferson Medical College
Effect Of Visual Media Use On School Performance: A Prospective Study, Iman Sharif, Md, Mph, Thomas A. Wills, Phd, James D. Sargent, Md
Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers
Purpose: To identify mechanisms for the impact of visual media use on adolescents' school performance.
Methods: We conducted a 24-month, four-wave longitudinal telephone study of a national sample of 6,486 youth aged 10 to 14 years. Exposure measures: latent construct for screen exposure time (weekday time spent viewing television/playing videogames, presence of television in bedroom) and variables for movie content (proportion of PG-13 and R movies viewed).
Outcome measure: self- and parent reports of grades in school. Effects of media exposures on change in school performance between baseline and 24 months were assessed using structural equation modeling. Information about hypothesized …
Reduced Mortality And Increased Bpd With Histological Chorioamnionitis And Leukocytosis In Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants.,
2010
Thomas Jefferson University
Reduced Mortality And Increased Bpd With Histological Chorioamnionitis And Leukocytosis In Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants., David A. Paul, Md, Kelly Zook, Md, Amy Mackley, Rnc, Robert G. Locke, Do
Department of Pediatrics Faculty Papers
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between leukocytosis, mortality and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in very-low-birth-weight infants (VLBW) born to mothers with histological chorioamnionitis.
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study from a single level 3 neonatal intensive care unit. The study sample included infants born to mothers with histological chorioamnionitis (n=252). Total white blood cells (WBCs) after birth were measured. Leukocytosis was defined as a total WBC count >30 000 per mm(3) in the first 2 days of life. Outcomes investigated included BPD and death. Both unadjusted and multivariable analyses were carried out.
RESULT: After controlling for potential confounding variables, infants who …
Bioethics And Biosecurity Education In China: Rise Of A Scientific Superpower.,
2010
University of Michigan Law School
Bioethics And Biosecurity Education In China: Rise Of A Scientific Superpower., Barr S. Michael, Joy Yueyue Zhang
Book Chapters
This chapter explores ethics, education and the life sciences in China. It is based on work conducted by the authors in two separate but complimentary projects. Barr’s observations derive from interviews and discussions in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou with life scientists and policymakers in infectious-disease hospitals, university-research labs, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Ministry of Health. Zhang’s study focused on China’s governance of stem-cell research and involved interviews with scientists, ethicists and policymakers at more than 25 sites across China. Below, we set the context by describing the role of science in China’s quest to become a leading …
