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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Health Sciences, Human Development"”.
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Motor proficiency and preacademic learning in the young child.
… specifically the relationship between early development of visual spatial skills, sequencing and arithmetic ability. Fifty children, ages 4 years 3 months to 5 years 8 months, were tested during two 30-40 minute sessions using: (1) the Miller Assessment for Preschoolers (MAP), a screening …
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Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Functional Adaptations in the Neonatal Intestine
Intestinal adaptation following massive loss of absorptive surface area is an important process that results in enhanced intestinal function to compensate for reduced absorptive capacity. Short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) are known to enhance this adaptive process in adult animal models, and data from …
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Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Glucagon -Like Peptide-2 Enhance Intestinal Development and Adaptation
In 2002, 43% of the ∼470,822 preterm infants were born at a low birth weight. These infants have a higher risk for intestinal dysfunctions indicating the use of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) to meet their nutritional needs. Despite its benefits, TPN is associated with many complications; …
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Elucidating the Role of the Fragile-X Mental Retardation Protein in the Central Nervous System
The discovery that proteins are synthesized at synapses, away from somata where most proteins are made, is fairly recent, and only a couple of proteins are currently known to be made near synapses; none have been shown to be made in response to changes in the synaptic environment. Proteins made in …
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Training-Induced Changes in Dual -Task fMRI Activation in Young and Old Adults
We conducted a series of studies to examine the neural correlates of training-related improvements in dual-task processing in older and younger adults. The first study consisted of untrained younger adults with the goal to discriminate between cortical regions involved in preparing to make more …
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The Role of Infant Locomotor Onset in Shaping Mother-Infant Communication
This study examines the relation between infant locomotor onset and emotional communication during prohibition scenes. Forty-one infants were videotaped at home with their mothers when the infants were 6 and 8 months of age. At 6 months all infants were pre-locomotor. At 8 months 23 infants were …
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Towards an Ecological Model of Prehension
This dissertation presents an ecological model of human prehensile behavior utilizing the technique of dimensional analysis to develop pi-numbers that express body scaled relationships between hands and objects of prehension. Hand patterns were classified relative to generic action categories of …
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The Relationship Between Physical Activity Level and Bone Mineral Status in Adolescent Males
Chronically high active subjects were compared to low active subjects at two levels, prepubescent and post-pubescent. The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between level of physical activity and BMC (bone mineral content) and BMD (bone mineral density). The secondary purpose …
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Modulation of TGF-beta and extracellular matrix in retionic acid-induced cleft palate
… hyaluronate were investigated in normal palate development. Collagen I and collagen IV, laminin, and hyaluronate proved to have spatial-temporal patterns of localization during palatal shelf growth and reorientation. However, using immunohistochemistry, RA-induced changes in these molecules …
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Longitudinal study of pubertal peak height velocity and related morphological and functional components in Brazilian children
… its relationship to morphological and functional developmental components in a select group of Brazilian children. The children (18 girls and 26 boys) were from a longitudinal study in Ilhabela, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Measurements, taken twice a year, included anthropometric parameters: weight, …
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Nicotine and TNF alpha, modulators of T cell signaling-effects on T cell development in fetal thymus organ culture
T cell development is regulated by signals generated in the interactions between developing thymocytes and the thymic stroma. Using fetal thymus organ culture (FTOC) as a model of T cell development, we investigated the ability of two potent signal modulators to influence this process. These …
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Multidimensional exploration of bimanual coordination
Bimanual coordination was examined in three experiments. Both spatial and temporal influences on bimanual movement coordination were investigated. Experiment 1 examined the coordination of symmetrical movement patterns, Experiment 2 examined voluntary transitions between coordination patterns, and …
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The First Year of Marriage: Dyadic Adjustment and Intimacy
The study was designed to investigate the development of marital adjustment and intimacy over the transition period from engagement through the first year of marriage. A cross-sequential data collection strategy was used to measure change in these processes over time. The data were also analyzed …
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Damaged goods? Clinical conversations and the cultural construction of cocaine-exposed children in foster care
"Early on in the ""crack era""--beginning roughly in 1985--a ""cocaine-baby syndrome"" characterized by jitteriness, inconsolability and poor social bonding was reported as were various birth defects, in the children of multiply addicted women who used cocaine. By the early 1990s, the reality of …
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Leisure involvement and the subjective well-being of young adults with mental retardation
This study was an analysis of interviews of young adults with mental retardation (N = 87) to examine an hypothesized path model of direct and indirect associations between socially- and competence-oriented leisure involvement and subjective well-being. The indirect associations were hypothesized …
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Educational gerontology: Health behavior of elderly African-American women
… a research-based context for examining the health behavior and educational needs of elderly African American women.
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Bone mineral density, bone remodeling, insulin-like growth factors, hormone replacement therapy, and exercise training in postmenopausal women
Osteoporosis is a condition of reduced bone mineral density (BMD) resulting in an increased susceptibility to bone fractures. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of 12 months of weight bearing and resistance exercise on BMD, bone formation, measured by serum osteocalcin (OC) and …