Background During the past 25 years, many pregnancy and birth cohorts have been
established. Each cohort provides unique opportunities for examining associations of early‐life …

▪ Abstract Education in biomedical engineering offers a number of challenges to all constituents
of the educational process—faculty, students, and employers of graduates. Although …

… The primary investigator is Dr S Brophy (author of this review) in Swansea University (Brophy
2007). This study closed early due to over 70% of potential participants being initiated on …

… DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for ASD’s are focused on establishing the presence or absence
… by the proband’s mother. Two to six weeks following completion of the ADI-R, SRS’s were …

… or to copy ideas from other children’s designs. Evaluating their designs was accomplished
… tion are all their own (Brophy and Evangelou, 2007). In Fleer’s study, many students could …

… To compare continuous data, t tests and ANOVA were used, and Spearman’s rank correlation
and χ 2 tests were used to compare categorical data. SPSS version 12.0 was used in all …

Background Variations in reported prevalence of challenging behaviour indicate the need
for further epidemiological research to support accurate planning of future service provision. …

OBJECTIVES It has long been suspected that susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is
influenced by genes lying distant to the major histocompatibility complex. This study …

… Sean Brophy Sean Brophy has a background in engineer ing, computer science, and
education. He completed a masters in computer science spe cializing in artificial intelligence. He …

… The Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Radiology Index for the spine (BASRI-s), a new radiologic
scoring system, was designed to address these problems. This report describes the BASRI-s, …