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J Pashley

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PubMed1989

International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on birthweight; plurality; and perinatal and infant mortality. I: Methods of data collection and analysis.

This paper describes the collection and analysis of data by a group of international collaborators (International Collaborative Effort on Perinatal and Infant Mortality) interested in comparative studies on birthweight distributions and reproductive outcome. This is the first of a series of reports on the results of these studies. It gives an account of the countries or states involved, and the collection and characteristics of the data. The countries and states included sixteen of the United States, plus England and Wales, Denmark, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia from the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden. The data comprised birthweight distributions in 500-gram groups for all births and for singletons separately, for livebirths, stillbirths, first week deaths and, where available, late neonatal and infant deaths, from 1970 up to 1985.

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PubMed1989

International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on birthweight; plurality; and perinatal and infant mortality. II: Comparisons between birthweight distributions of births in member countries from 1970 to 1984.

Member states of the International and Collaborative Effort (ICE) are the United States of America, England and Wales, Denmark, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia of the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Scotland and Sweden. The group has collected, analysed and compared distributions of birthweight for member countries, where available from 1970 onwards, for singleton and all livebirths, stillbirths, early and late neonatal and postneonatal deaths. The present paper is an account of the differences in birthweight distributions, and trends over time seen between and within countries, for livebirths and stillbirths. The major findings are the relative robustness over time of the parameters which characterize the distribution of birthweight within countries, and the marked and consistent differences between these distributions in different countries.

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PubMed1989

Grip strengthening with adapted computer switches.

The computer grippers have been successful in providing an easily operated, enjoyable, purposeful activity for end-stage grip strengthening for patients preparing to return to heavy industry. Because computer games maintain the patient's attention for long periods, this adaptation is excellent for building endurance.

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