Article history: Received 4 April 2016 Received in revised form 13 February 2017 Accepted 15 February 2017 Available online 16 February 2017 The relationship between the sensitive response of the caregiver and the formation of secure attachments in infants has beenwidely studied. It iswithin this framework that the present investigation examined the effect of an intervention that promotes sensi...

BACKGROUND The Great East Japan Earthquake inflicted severe damage on the Pacific coastal areas of northeast Japan. Although possible health impacts on aged or handicapped populations have been highlighted, little is known about how the serious disaster affected preschool children's health. We conducted a nationwide nursery school survey to investigate preschool children's physical development ...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that poverty, health and nutrition affect children's cognitive development. This study aimed to examine the relative contributions of both proximal and distal risk factors on child cognitive development, by breaking down the possible causal pathways through which poverty affects cognition. METHODS This cohort study collected data on family socioeconomic status, ho...

The playgroup movement started 10 years ago as a "do-ityourself" nursery school in London. It has now mushroomed into a national organization named the Preschool Playgroup Association (P.P.A.) with a membership of over 7,000 groups. Each branch area has an organizer whose expenses are paid by the local groups, and centrally there are two national advisers who are paid from a Government grant. T...

The aims of this study were to assess agreement among instructors in scoring preclinical dental procedures, the effect of this agreement on grades, and factors associated with agreement and grades differences. Twenty-six instructors from five clinical specialties participated in a scoring exercise at the College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in January 2015. Instructors blin...

introduction. evaluation is one of the characteristic issues of education process and help us to assess deficiency and powerty of education programs and solve the problems of education. methods. in this study a proper questionnaire was distributed and answered by instructors. then information was analyzed by spss software. results. in this study 72.5% of instructors used formative evaluation an...

Chloropicrin fumigation, Eptam 7-E (EPTC) herbicide, and Paenibacillus macerans seed treatments were evaluated as alternatives to fumigation with methyl bromide/chloropicrin for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedling production at three nurseries in the southern United States. A treatment of metam sodium/chloropicrin was also evaluated at one nursery. Seedling density was unaffected by fumigat...

a. Cleavage In vertebrates, cell division is radial and indeterminate. The first mitotic cell divisions that follow fertilization occur rapidly and are not accompanied by cell growth. The In many animals (mammals are an exception), the zygote has a definite polarity. As a result, the cleavage divisions create cells that differ in their cytoplasmic contents (e.g., cytoplasmic determinants: mRNAs...

We investigated an increase in cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) at a large urban facility where a prior nosocomial outbreak of MDRTB had occurred. Nosocomial transmission appeared to account for this outbreak as well, including a cluster of cases in a newborn nursery. Seven of 24 patients (29%) described in this investigation may have been exposed in the hospital nursery during...