OBJECTIVE To develop a questionnaire (ABILOCO-Kids) based on the Rasch measurement model that assesses locomotion ability in children with cerebral palsy. DESIGN Prospective study and questionnaire development. SUBJECTS A total of 113 children with cerebral palsy (10 (standard deviation 2.5) years old). METHODS A 41-item questionnaire was developed based on existing scales and on the clin...

__________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Saanen milk goats were crossed with South African Indigenous goats to evaluate productivity, milk production and disease incidence, and to assess their suitability for milk production by small-scale farmers and households in developing areas. Goat kids were separated from their mothers at one wee...

Launched in January 2001 by the Santa Clara County Children’s Health Initiative (CHI), the Healthy Kids program provides health insurance coverage to over 13,000 children in the county with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level ($62,000 for a family of four) who are ineligible for the two major state insurance programs in California, Medi-Cal and Healthy Families. The...

A 17-weeks study was conducted to observe the effect of feeding solvent extracted karanj (Pongamia glabra vent) seed cake (SKC) and alkali processed solvent extracted karanj seed cake (AKC) on various haematological parameters and overall body weight gains in goat kids. Twenty non-descript male kids were randomly divided into fi ve treatment groups viz., T 1 (control), T 2 , T 3 , T 4 and T 5 c...

CS: Well – let me say first off a couple of things: What I expected to happen in my life, never happened, and what happened was not what I had expected. I fully expected while I was growing up, that I would have kids and a family. I was married but I put off the decision to have kids for too long and when it finally came time to have them, I found that I could not conceive. The subsequent infer...

Many kids describe their perception of programming to be “hard and boring.” Computational Thinking, including programming, is considered by many to be an important skill for the 21 century workforce. However, in order for kids to get interested in Computational Thinking is it essential to understand why kids perceive programming to be hard, i.e., to understand cognitive challenges, and why kids...

Present study was carried out to study the eff ect of solid state fermentation (SSF) biomass on growth performance of Surti growing kids. Fourteen kids (4-7 months age) weighing around 9 kg, were randomly divided in two groups of 7 each. All the kids were fed rations containing 50 % jowar straw and 50% compound concentrate mixture. Animal of group 1 served as control and were off ered TMR (tota...

Two adult Angora goats were slaughtered each month for 24 consecutive months on a farm in Valley Bushveld in the eastern Cape Province. On the same farm 2 Angora goat kids were slaughtered each month for 2 consecutive years from the time they were 1 week old until they reached 12 months of age. All these goats were processed for the recovery of helminth and arthropod parasites. Fourteen nematod...