OBJECTIVE To examine the role of maternal worries about child underweight and undereating in mother-child feeding interactions with children having a feeding disorder (FD). METHOD Participants were 27 children diagnosed with nonorganic-based FD and 28 children without FD. Mothers were interviewed about their worries about child underweight and undereating. Mother-child interactions were video...

To investigate the effectiveness of Psycho-education on Quality of life (QOL) among People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). A convenience sample of 120 people living with HIV/AIDS between the age of 20-40 years who have low QOL score in HAT-QOL scale were selected and divided into experimental and control group after initial scrutiny. Experimental group was given psycho-education and control group...

Take the vague predicate ‘tall’: I claim that any numbers assigned in an attempt to capture the vagueness of ‘tall’ do no more than serve as another measure of height. More generally, in so far as it is possible to assign numbers which respect certain truths about, for example, comparative relations, this is no more than a measure of an attribute related to, or underlying, the vague predicate. ...

Unsurprisingly, humans are increasingly concerned about their possible impact on climate change and its wider effects on the environment. But climate is well known to have varied in the past, so what has been the impact of these variations on the species of the time? Most attempts to look at this issue have focused on relatively short geological periods, limited geographical ranges or few taxon...

The British government and some of the country’s leading scientists have reacted with anger and frustration to the decision to end breeding of animals at a farm that has been relentlessly targeted by animal rights protesters, warning that there could be severe consequences for clinical research in the country, in spite of new legislation this year limiting their activities. The decision by the ...

could be used to force large and unquantified emission cuts on them in the future. Governments in both Europe and America are now softening their call for a global target of halving emissions by 2050, in an attempt to build a consensus around a less ambitious deal. Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change, hinted of the softening stance at a meeting in London last month. " Our view a...