reL ainEven where families from outdated, unhygienic buildings have been OUsed, play problems may remain unsolved, for the construction of more more skyscraper flats involves their own very special difficulties and gers for young children at play. ?T.'s survey of Nursery Education ^Additional state nursery schools are one answer, but a survey of "The e ?f Nursery Education"* published in Januar...

This paper presents applications of a remarkable majorization inequality due to Bapat and Sunder in three different areas. The first application is a proof of Hiroshima’s 2003 result which arises in quantum information theory. The second one is an extension of some eigenvalue inequalities that have been used to bound chromatic number of graphs. The third application is a simplified proof of a m...

After an outbreak of flavobacterium meningitis in the newborn nursery of the University Hospital, an investigation was carried out to determine the possible sources of this organisms in the nursery. Various serotypes of the organism were recovered from a variety of sources such as wash basins, sinks, suction apparatus, and disinfectants in the nursery as well as the neighbouring wards. Colonisa...

The number of person-to-person transmitted norovirus cases (n = 4,712) in school children in Osaka, Japan, during 2016/17 was the largest since 2012/13. Norovirus outbreaks were reported by 101 schools including 53 nursery schools (1,927 cases), 18 kindergartens (1,086 cases) and 30 elementary schools (1,699 cases). The dominant genotype among outbreaks was GII.P16-GII.2 (57.4%; 58/101), follow...

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...

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...

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...