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1 France Telecom R&D, 2 Avenue Pierre-Marzin 22307 Lannion Cedex France, [email protected] 2 LaMI umr 8042 CNRS, Université d’Évry Val d’Essonne Tour Evry 2 / 4ème étage, 523 Place des terrasses de l’Agora, 91000 Évry France, [email protected] 3 CEA-Saclay, Laboratoire ”Logiciel pour la Sûreté des Procédés”, DRT/LIST/DTSI/SLA, F-91191 GIF sur Yvette Cedex France, alain...

Introduction. Overweight and perception of being overweight, may lead adolescent to lose weight. The aim of the present study was to investigate overweight adolescents' self-perceived weight, body dissatisfaction, and weight control behaviour during 1994-2010 in Finland. Methods. The country-representative, cross-sectional data of 15-year olds were obtained from the Health Behaviour in School-a...

We investigated the conformity of young children without the use of confederates by utilizing the fMORI-Asch paradigm. The Asch-equivalent tasks were presented by means of a presentation trick so that one participant observed different stimuli than the other three, creating a minority-majority confrontation without using confederates. Ninety-six Japanese first graders (6 7 years old; 48 boys an...

Over the past decades, Internet use has grown substantially, and it now serves people as a supportive tool that is used regularly and-in large parts of the world-inevitably. Some people develop problematic Internet use, which may lead to addictive behavior and it is becoming important to explore the risk factors for compulsive Internet use. Data were analyzed on compulsive Internet use [with th...

This paper investigates the accessibility and attractiveness of different types of ICT applications in education for girls and boys and for pupils from families with an ethnic minority background and from the majority population in the Netherlands. A study was conducted in seven schools (primary and secondary). Data were collected on participation, ICT skills and learning results, ICT attitudes...

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of adolescent girls living in the Cherah union council, Islamabad and to determine the association between dietary intake and iron deficiency anaemia. METHODS It was a cross sectional survey conducted in union council Cherah of Islamabad. Study participants comprised of 150 adolescent (11-19 years of age) girls selected by simple random sampling livi...

The relationship of vesicoureteric reflex (VUR) and renal scarring was studied in 94 children (188 kidneys) with proved urinary tract infection in a district general hospital. There were 61 girls and 33 boys, with nine girls and 17 boys aged less than 1 year, 31 girls and nine boys aged between 1 and 5 years, the remaining 28 children were over 5 years of age. All children had a micturating cys...

Sexual intercourse remains taboo among adolescents in a Chinese society such as Hong Kong. It is not openly discussed and little research has been done on its impact on health, although it carries serious risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)/HIV. In 1999, a cross-sectional, self-report survey on youth risk behaviors was carried out on 8382 students 15-18 years of age from 4...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic status (SES) and acculturation are potential contributors of adolescent physical activity disparity among ethnic groups in the U.S. However, studies relying on self-report physical activity measures have reported inconsistent findings regarding sociocultural predictors of physical activity. Therefore, the current study examined the main and interactive effects of SES an...