Dividing to their own beat

Walking to the Beat of Their Own Drum: How Children and Adults Meet Timing Constraints

Walking requires adapting to meet task constraints. Between 5- and 7-years old, children's walking approximates adult walking without constraints. To examine how children and adults adapt to meet timing constraints, 57 5- to 7-year olds and 20 adults walked to slow and fast audio metronome paces. Both children and adults modified their walking. However, at the slow pace, children had more troub...

Alcoholism: Psychological Damage to Their Own Children

Volume 3 • Issue 1 • 1000188 J Alcohol Drug Depend ISSN: 2329-6488 JALDD, an open access journal Male alcoholism presents social characteristics and antisocial problems, while female alcoholism presents psychological characteristics and pathological symptoms .Both damage their own children From the data collected, it results that children (male and female) of alcoholic mothers develop inward be...

Student readiness to start their own business

Europeans are left to their own devices.

Slick and efficient or opaque and patchy—these are two of the views about the European medical device regulatory system expressed during a recent US Congress debate. But unlike the case with, say, consumer drug advertising, the devices industry argues that conditions are more favourable in Europe. “European regs are driven by one key goal: innovation,” one industry report suggests. And another ...

Are people adapted to their own glasses?

Negative lenses, either in the form of glasses or contact lenses, can correct nearsightedness. Unlike contact lenses, glasses do not only correct, but also induce optic distortions. In the scientific literature, it has often been assumed that people who wear corrective glasses instantaneously account for these distortions when they put their glasses on. We tested this assumption and found that,...