BACKGROUND Female genital mutilation/cutting is a harmful practice which has effect on female's wellbeing. However, the practice has continued to prevail in many cultures. Research on the social determinants of the practice and its continuation are scarce. The objective of this study was to assess whether attitude towards the continuation of female genital mutilation is predicted by gender role...

The gradual and painstaking determination of the CKM matrix over a long period of time is a remarkable accomplishment of our field, and hopefully it will attain a level of completion from the B-factory studies to come. The emphasis of B-factories will be on the physics of b quarks and deservedly so. Already, there is discovery of a ∆B = 2 process (Bd−Bd mixing) and an EW-penguin decay (B → K γ)...

: Steroid myopathy (SM) is a side effect of glucocorticoid administration. Previous reports SM after therapy for respiratory diseases have focused on asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults or adolescents. To our knowledge, there been no treatment with diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) preschoolers. We present 4-year-old girl DAH requiring the methylprednisolone, who was tran...

Aim of the study Pandemics have negative physical and mental effects on children adolescents. However, our knowledge about factors related to problems experienced in this process is limited. This aimed examine association between resources Covid-19 information exposure sociodemographic characteristics health during pandemics. Subject or material methods was carried out with 1030 children. The p...

Re-adapting classical works for Hungarian adolescents bridges the gap between classic and contemporary. This paper introduces Borbála Szabó’s novel as an example in a larger project that establishes strong intertextual connections with early twentieth century canonical texts reflecting on friendship of two literary figures, Dezső Kosztolányi, Frigyes Karinthy. Fictional reality is parodied seve...

Narratives about parents may help adolescents navigate their own experiences. Yet, research has not examined what adolescents know about their intergenerational past. Sixty-five 14to 16-year-old middle-class, racially diverse adolescents narrated two stories about each parent’s childhood, and 2 positive personal stories. Narratives were coded for structure (length, elaboration), theme (affiliat...

OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants and measure the trends in health facility-based deliveries and caesarean sections among married adolescent girls in Bangladesh. METHODS In order to measure the trends in health facility-based deliveries and caesarean sections, Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) data sets were analysed (BDHS; 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 1999-2000, 2004, 2007, 2011). Th...