Collaborative Innovative Projects: Four New Projects Funded
The Science Committee of the Faculty of Law awarded four new collaborative innovative projects with funding.
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- Early Life Growth and the Development of Preschool Wheeze, Independent from Overweight - The LucKi Birth Cohort Study.pdf (376.85 KB, PDF)… C. P. van Schayck, PhD6 Objective To investigate whether birth weight and postnatal growth rates are independently related to the devel- opment of overweight and wheeze up to age 3 years. Study design Children from the LucKi Birth Cohort Study with complete follow-up for repeated questionnaires (at age 0, 7, and 14 months and 3 years) and informed consent to use height and weight data (measured by trained personnel at age 0, 7, and 14 months and 2 and 3 years) were included (n = 566). Wheeze … weight, an indicator of fetal growth andmaturation, and postnatal growth are associated with wheeze/asthma and over- weight. Both low and high birth weight seem to predispose for asthma8,9 and overweight,10-12 although studies report incon- sistent findings. Unfavorable conditions in utero, such as maternal smoking during pregnancy,13 may cause impaired somatic growth and impede lung development, thus explaining the risk of asthma in low birth weight children.9 In addition, low birth From the … choices, such as definition of growth rates and timing of outcome measurements. In our study, growth was defined as difference scores of standardized weight, height, or BMI in 3 periods (age 1-7 months, age 7-14 months, and age 2-3 years), whereas others have cate- gorized growth between age 0 and 2 years21 or in several intermediate periods16-18 into slow, normal, and rapid weight gain, or have used parameters of modeled growth Early Life Growth and the Development of Preschool Wheeze, …
Aggression, a last resort in rising sea levels
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KidzCollege: 15 years of linking primary schools with the university
It’s happened every May and June for the last 15 years. Groups of 60 pupils—Year 7 students from primary schools around the region—filing into UM lecture halls to get acquainted with academia. What happens if you break the law? How are new medicines developed? The lectures are pitched in an...
House of Representatives gives minister room to develop proposals
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‘This is a golden age for science’
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How do we imagine? ERC Advanced Grant for Prof. dr. Rainer Goebel (FPN)
FPN’s prof. dr. Rainer Goebel has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of € 2,5M for his research project Reading the Mind’s Eye: AI inspired personalised brain models of mental imagery. Goebel is among 255 researchers (out of 1829 applications in all domains) in Europe to receive the grant, and he is...
From what age does muscle mass decline?
And how can it be counteracted? According to Luc van Loon, you can become a bodybuilder even after age 80. 'But the disadvantage of our dynamic muscles is that you also lose them quickly when you start using them less. Maintaining muscles is an active process. You have to keep stimulating them.' NUT...
