Childhood obesity, a significant global public health problem, affects an increasing number of low- and middle-income countries, including in Asia. The obesity epidemic has been fuelled by the rapid nutrition and physical activity transition with the availability of more energy-dense nutrient-poor foods and lifestyles of many children dominated by physical inactivity. During the growing years t...

Research on "theory of mind" has traditionally focused on a narrow participant group (preschool children) using a narrow range of experimental tasks (most notably, false-belief tasks). Recent work has greatly expanded the age range of human participants tested to include human infants, older children, and adults, has devised new tasks, and has adopted methods from cognitive psychology and neuro...

Scarcely twelve months ago tlie whole country was shocked by a disaster to school children so horrible in its details that men in distant cities wept in street-cars as they read the account in the morning papers. Immediately, everywhere, school buildings were inspected and hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended in alterations and fire escapes. Since then, in the city of that sad disaste...

Immigration is not only about changing countries, but also about shifting identities. This change is especially important for adolescents. This article examines identity formation among 1.5 and 2nd generation adolescent immigrants to Israel. A survey of 125 children of immigrants aged 12-19 examined the role of social structures such as pace of life, culture, religion and language on identity f...

The negative effects of shift work on sleep are well documented. requirement for permanent hospital care requires nurses to adopt this organization. objective study was assess these the in Congolese public hospitals. This a multi-centre, cross-sectional descriptive conducted from January November 2021 with nine Data were collected using Epworth Sleepiness Scale and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inde...