How do young children direct their attention to other people in the natural world? Although many studies have examined the perception of faces and of goal-directed actions, relatively little work has focused on what children will look at in complex and unconstrained viewing environments. To address this question, we showed videos of objects, faces, children playing with toys, and complex social...

introduction: children learn to communicate by hearing sounds. if there is hearing loss, the cognitive and speaking abilities and language learning will deteriorate. early detection and intervention are important factors in the successful treatment of hearing loss in children. hearing loss (hl) is divided into two main groups: conductive hearing loss (chl) and sensorineural hearing loss (snhl),...

background and aims. temperament has been suggested to be a predictive factor for the child’s reaction to dental treatment especially in young ages. the aim of this study was to assess the relationship between temperament and child behavior in relation to age in the dental setting. materials and methods. in this descriptive-analytical study, 190 children, aged 1 to 7 years, who visited dentist ...

Humans have always done nonmonotonic reasoning, but rigorous monotonic reasoning in reaching given conclusions has been deservedly more respected and admired. Euclid contains the first extended monotonically reasoned text available to a large public. I suspect that even Euclid did nonmonotonic reasoning in arguing for the postulates. It is unfortunate that the rigorous monotonic reasoning of Eu...

(Received for publication, July 21, 1952) Many histological studies1),2),3) on the innervation of mammalian tongues have been reported and praiseworthy results achieved histherto, but much seems yet left unexplored, and in particular, many questions are still waiting solution in connection with dog tongue. Recently, much licht has been thrown on the subject of innervation of human tongue by the...

People who have gout may contend with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, and women seem more vulnerable than men, according to a large population-based study. The researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed data from gout patients, and from those without the disease, in the United Kingdom's Health Improvement Network (THIN) database. They found a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes among ...

Preliminary evidence suggests that pain catastrophizing in children may be important in understanding how parents respond to their child's pain. However, no study has investigated whether parental responses, in turn, moderate the impact of child's catastrophizing upon pain outcomes. The present study was designed to address this, and investigated the association of the child's catastrophizing w...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of abuse and neglect among a population of children identified as a function of an existing disability, relate specific types of disabilities to specific types of abuse, and to determine the effect of abuse and neglect on academic achievement and attendance rates for children with and without disabilities. METHOD An electronic merger of school records with ...

This article examines a source of the growth in the SSI children's program: a relatively minor and little-noticed change in the financial eligibility rules. The way parental earnings were counted as income, or "deemed" to children (to use SSA language) was changed. The new, more generous financial eligibility rules added a small but significant number of recipients to the rolls after 1992 and a...