Abstract In onomastic practices of some traditional societies in Nigeria, stereotyped gender roles and patriarchy are deliberately perpetuated the naming female children, thus using traditions as weapons against girl-children. these cultures, names bestowed on children to align with existing sexist norms ideology which namer is dominant named subservient. This article explores, from an ethnogra...

An 18 year old girl presented with frequent vasovagal attacks and sinus arrhythmia. The amplitude of respiratory sinus arrhythmia assessed by cosinor analysis was 20%; the predicted value for a normal girl of this age is 4% and the 95% confidence interval is 0-8%. Treatment with propantheline, in a dose sufficient to reduce the amplitude of sinus arrhythmia to normal, abolished her symptoms.

This study was designed to observe young children working with a turtle robot on five Logo tasks. Eighteen children (mean age 7 years 3 months) attempted the tasks individually and then in one of three gender pairs: boy-boy, girl-girl or boy-girl. The results of the study revealed that initially the boy-boy pairs completed the tasks using the least amount of moves, in less time and with fewer e...

The case of a one-year-old girl with necrotizing vulvar infection is presented. appropriate approach for these cases also discussed.

The study will make an attempt to identify patterns of gender gap in child health in India and their determinants, and examine the possible role of female education and women’s agency in reducing the gap. It will apply Borda rule, Principal Component Analysis, Logistic regression techniques on three rounds of NFHS data. Children under three years of age are the units of analysis. With the help ...

Eating disorders frequently occur in conjunction with autism spectrum disorders, posing diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties. The comorbidity of anorexia nervosa and Asperger syndrome is a significant clinical complication and has been associated with a poorer prognosis. The authors are presenting the cases of an eleven-year-old girl and a five-and-a-half-year-old girl with comorbid eating d...

"Territory Open to Girl Activity":Socialization through Wilderness in Camp Fire Fiction, 1912–1920 Elly McCausland (bio) In 1912, a journalist wrote the New York Tribune that "From Maine California, Florida Washington and Hawaii District of Columbia Fires are spreading." Readers were assured "this does not mean war": rather, article referred popularity an organization called Girls that, within ...

About the same lime, the elder daughter Sa lly, a high school se nior, is viewing a short motion pi<:ture, "Rewurd Unlimited," starring Dorothy McGuire as Cadet Nurse Pegs}' Ada ms, at the Main Street movie theater. After the show the gang stops at the drugstore to hash over the latest gossip under a compelling poster above the soda fountain which proclaims: " He a Cadet Nu rse-The Gi rl with a...

This paper seeks to investigate whether improvement in sex ratios translate into better health and nutritional outcomes for the girl child through an in depth study of these indictors in the region of Punjab. In recent years, both the child and overall sex ratios have shown improvement in the state. We analyze whether this improvement has narrowed gender discrimination against the girl child in...

The authors describe the case of a 2-year-old girl who developed leukoencephalitis during HHV6 infection (sixth disease).