vitamin d is essential for growth and vitamin d deficiency is important issue in adolescent girls as they have a limited rapid growth period .this cross sectional study was done on 167 female students in secondary guidance school in 2006. growth parameters, taking supplementary vitamin d, using sunscreen creams and the type of housing and their avoidance from exposure to sunlight was recorded. ...

An experiment explored the impact of explicit guidance (instruction) on the use of abstract symbols or life-like depictions to represent engineering problems. The study examines the effects of guiding learners in the use of abstract or contextualized representations of engineering problems. The study had a 2 (representation conditions: abstract text with abstract diagrams (AA) and contextualize...

Background and Context: School principals school guidance counsellors can be very influential in deciding what subjects are offered on the curriculum, how they promoted who targeted to. For that reason, exploring their views of Computer Science (CS) as a subject help unearth potential barriers may hinder wider uptake schools.Objective: This study aimed to explore counsellors’ CS at upper second...

BACKGROUND In 2006 the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published guidance on the management of childhood obesity, for use by primary care practitioners. Little is known, however, about practitioners' views and experiences of managing childhood obesity in primary care. AIM To explore practitioners' views of primary care as a setting in ...

Skin fungal infections are common global problems with attendant morbidity amongaffected individuals. Children are mostly affected because of predisposing factors such aspoverty, overcrowding, and lack of guidance. Investigation on the prevalence ofsuperficial fungal infections among primary school pupils was carried out in Awka SouthLocal Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria. Six public p...

* Extract from the doctoral dissertation "Tecnologia educacional: produção e avaliação do site Escala de Pessoal de Enfermagem", School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, 2003. 1 RN, PhD. Faculty at Nursing Department of Botucatu Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho". Botucatu, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN. Full Professor at the Department of ...