The article presents an analysis of the historical and contemporary context of girls’ plays with dolls and doll-houses. The anthropological materials about children's plays with dolls and doll-houses help to recreate the doll context as a cultural represent of evolutional development. The archaic functions of the doll used in rituals and traditional ceremonies objectivize the historically inher...

The dynamic gait index relates to self-reported fall history in individuals with vestibular dysfunction. Associations of visual function with physical outcomes and limitations 5 years later in an older population: The Beaver Dam study. Fear of falling and fall-related efficacy in relationship to functioning among community-living elders. Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consi...

Finding the clique of maximum cardinality in an arbitrary graph is an NP-Hard problem that has many applications, which has motivated several approaches to solve it exactly despite its difficulty. In this paper, we propose an exact algorithm for the maximum clique problem based on the Russian Dolls Search method. In comparison to a first implementation of this Russian Dolls method from the lite...

Given that most cases of child sexual abuse lack external corroborating evidence, children's verbal accounts of their experiences are of paramount importance to investigators. Forensic interviewers are charged with interviewing child victims and oftentimes use anatomical dolls. Yet, research on dolls has not caught up to practice in the field. Using a multimethod approach, this study presents n...

This article examines the significance of Diva Starz, a new line of interactive dolls aimed at young girls between 6 and 11 years for current models of literacy. It argues that these dolls have much to tell us about the construction of children as consumers, our views about ‘childhood’, and the models of literacy instruction most appropriate for giving children the skills and knowledge needed t...

This study experimentally tested the effects of playing with thin dolls on body image and food intake in 6- to 10-year-old Dutch girls (N = 117). Girls were randomly assigned to play with a thin doll, an average-sized doll, or Legos in a no doll control condition. After 10 min, they participated in a taste-test and completed questionnaires about body image. No differences were found between con...