Walter Mischel and colleagues carried out a series of experiments between 1968 and 1974 on the ability of four year-old children attending a nursery school to delay gratification. The experimental paradigm involved offering each child a choice between having a treat, such as a cookie or a marshmallow, immediately, versus receiving a larger treat (e.g., two cookies) after an unspecified delay. I...

This study reports the results of motor performance measurements of Senegalese children aged 3.5-5.5 years. A total of 69 children were studied, of whom 30 were from a town and were attending a nursery school, while 39 were from rural areas and did not attend school. The tests were administered three times at 6 months intervals. The children were divided into two age groups: younger group (less...

BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no rigorously designed clinical trials have evaluated the relation between vitamin D and physician-diagnosed seasonal influenza. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effect of vitamin D supplements on the incidence of seasonal influenza A in schoolchildren. DESIGN From December 2008 through March 2009, we conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial c...

The present study reports on the personality attributes of nursery school children who two decades later were reliably stratiWed along a liberal/conservative dimension. An unprecedented analytical opportunity existed to evaluate how the political views of these young adults related to assessments of them when in nursery school, prior to their having become political beings. Preschool children w...

When the Scott Report on the training of staff in training centres for the mentally subnormal was published in 1962, it marked an already discernible turning away from a mainly medical concept of care and occupation for the severely subnormal, towards an educational concept of maximum development for the individual. 'Education', it said, '... does not exclude useful training but, on the other h...

the cornelian cherry is one of those less common but, nevertheless, interesting fruit species found in serbia which can be used both for food and medicine. due to a great importance of cornelian cherry fruits as safe food and a wide interest in growing this fruit species, this research was focused on examining the production technique of quality planting material of particularly large-fruit sel...

Fruit nursery paper is a protective technical paper that is used in agriculture to improve the percentage of the fruit that meets quality standards and the fruit’s exterior qualities, such as the smooth surface finish and fruit color. In this work, a more efficient and environmentally friendly method, i.e., the printing method, was proposed in order to minimize environmental pollution, reduce t...

Coastal marine and estuarine ecosystems are highly productive and serve a nursery function for important fisheries species. They also suffer some of the highest rates of degradation from human impacts of any ecosystems. Identifying and valuing nursery habitats is a critical part of their conservation, but current assessment practices typically take a static approach by considering habitats as i...

Twin boys suffered from recurrent diarrhoea due to Campylobacter jejuni after entering a day nursery. Stool sampling of all 17 children at the nursery revealed C. jejuni in 12. Simultaneous treatment with antibiotics of all children with positive cultures successfully eradicated the infection.

The present study investigated the effects of varying durations of nursery diets differing in percentages of milk products on growth performance of pigs during the nursery phase (NP) and subsequent grow-finish phase (GFP) to find the feasibility of reducing the use of nursery diets containing costly milk products. A total of 204 21-d-old weanling female and castrated male pigs were subjected to...