OBJECTIVE To evaluate the child development and evaluate a possible association with the commitment by biopsychosocial factors of children with and without congenital heart disease. METHODS Observational study of case-control with three groups: Group 1 - children with congenital heart disease without surgical correction; Group 2 - children with congenital heart disease who underwent surgery; ...

1. Patients with cataract were classified into undernourished (twenty-eight subjects) and well-nourished (twenty-seven subjects) groups based on the anthropometric index, weight (kg)/height (m)2. Those with a value for the index of less than 18 were considered as undernourished. 2. Lenses were classified into four groups on the basis of nuclear colour as proposed by Pirie (1968). Lenses of pale...

The present study examined children's use of behavioural outcome information to make personality attributions in social and non-social contexts. One hundred and twenty-eight 3- to 6-year-olds were told about a story actor who engaged in primarily successful or primarily unsuccessful interactions with several different people (social context) or several different computers (non-social context). ...

OBJECTIVE Internally guided actions are defined as being purposeful, self-generated and offering choices between alternatives. Intentional actions are essential to reach individual goals. In previous empirical studies, internally guided actions were predominantly related to functional responses in frontal and parietal areas. The aim of the present study was to distinguish event-related potentia...

Viability. -There are very few authentic cases of the survival of infants born before the twenty-seventh or twenty-eight week of pregnancy, although Home's case, which was supposed to have been born in the eighteenth week, was alive and well at nine years. Very few survive any length of time if the weight is under two pounds or the length less than thirteen inches. Oberwarth recently reported a...

In order to evaluate the effect of intrathecal gentamicin on gram-negative bacillary meningitis, twenty-eight patients were treated with intralumbar or intraventricular gentamicin in combination with systemic gentamicin and with other antibiotics. Sterile cerebrospinal fluid was achieved in 21/22 (95%) episodes of documented gram-negative bacillary meningitis in patients who received more than ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the feasibility of a workplace farmstand programme through the utilization of an online ordering system to build awareness for local food systems, encourage community participation, and increase local fruit and vegetable availability. DESIGN A 4-week pilot to explore feasibility of workplace farmstand programmes through a variety of outcome measures, including survey, mod...

OBJECTIVE The development and validation of Modified Disease Activity Scores (DAS) that include different 28-joint counts. METHODS These scores were developed by canonical discriminant analyses and validated for criterion, correlational, and construct validity. The influence of disease duration on the composition of the DAS was also investigated. RESULTS No influence of disease duration was...

I. Calcium balance studies were carried out on twenty-eight apparently normal preschool children who had been for several months on a low Ca intake of zoo mglchild per day. 2. Three-day balances showed that all subjects were in positive balance. The absorption was 50 yo of the intake. 3. When the dietary intake was increased to 280 mg/day there was a greater absorption and retention of Ca. Seru...

BACKGROUND The State of Victoria in Australia introduced Chinese medicine practitioner registration in 2000 and issued its education guidelines in late 2002 for introduction in 2005. This study obtained practitioners' views on desired capabilities for competent Chinese medicine practice and to identify professional development needs. METHODS A questionnaire, consisting of 28 predefined capabi...