The PRALIMAP (PRomotion de l'ALIMentation et de l'Activité Physique) trial highlights the effectiveness of implementing a screening strategy in high schools to prevent overweight/obesity among adolescents. The strategy comprises three steps: i) body measurements to detect overweight/obese adolescents, ii) a medical interview with each adolescent identified to discuss the findings, and iii) an a...

Fadia M. Al-Hummayani, BDS, MS * Abstract This study was carried out to determine the prevalence of congenital absence (agenesis) and malformation of maxillary lateral incisors in Saudi Arabian female students. A group of one thousand five hundred (1500) Saudi female school students, with an age range (11-19 years) were randomly selected from governmental and private schools in different distri...

Over the past decade, governmental agencies, medical schools, influential voices in the media, and the public at large have seen a remarkable surge of interest in alternative medicine in the United States. While many therapies focus on unproven but otherwise spiritually neutral approaches (for example, nutritional supplements), others arise from or validate worldviews — especially the monism ("...

A number of non-governmental organisations, aid agencies, international organisations and research centres have consequently developed a community of practice and a conception of resilience, which will be known here as development resilience. This school of thought differs from the earlier one of social and ecological system resilience, which the Resilience Alliance scientific network defines a...

The Internet is changing rapidly the way people around the world communicate, learn, and work. Yet the tremendous benefits of the Internet are not shared equally by all. One way to close the gap of the ‘digital divide’ is to ensure Internet access to all schools from an early age. While both the USA and EU have embraced the promotion of Internet access to schools, the two have decided to financ...

Ego identity defined as a fundamental element of a person and as self-continuum, mental andinward image that an individual has about him or herself. This subject investigated in contemporary world, amply.For actualizing and testing this concept, four bases including achievement, moratorium, foreclosure and diffusionintroduced and based on this framework, and the effect of different factors on e...