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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"early infancy"”.
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Parental Mind-Mindedness And Language Development In Early Infancy
… and stimulation, are linked to children’s early language. Mind-mindedness refers to mothers’ proclivity to consider and treat their infant as having an active and autonomous mental life of thoughts, intentions, desires, etc. Mind-mindedness is a foundation of parental sensitivity and …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
This study was concerned with young infants capacity to coordinate their perception of the spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to …
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The development of spatially-accurate reaching behaviour in early infancy
This study was concerned with young infants capacity to coordinate their perception of the spatial characteristics of objects with their reaching and prehensile behaviours. The reaching behaviour of infants ranging in age from two to seven months was videotaped to determine whether they tended to …
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Dynamics of faecal bacterial populations in early infancy as determined by massively parallel sequencing
Background: Meconium microbiota have recently gained great interest; however very few studies have included meconium specimens when longitudinally characterizing the infant GIT microbiota. This study therefore aimed to longitudinally characterize meconium microbiota profiles during the first seven …
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Exploring the Relationships Between Mothers' Use of Food to Soothe, Feeding Type and Mode, Maternal Feeding Style, Infant Behavior, and Infant Weight-Related Outcomes During Early Infancy
… studies have explored the use of FTS during early infancy before the introduction of solids foods. The present study was a secondary analysis of mothers who completed previous infant feeding studies (n = 134) and was aimed at exploring whether maternal-reported use of FTS was associated with …
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Metabolic phenotypes of infants with normal birth weight, small-for-gestational-age, or after maternal gestational diabetes mellitus
… associated both under- and overnutrition during early life with long-term metabolic outcomes. Those conditions are typically represented by two groups of infants in animal and human studies: infants born small-for-gestational-age (SGA; reflecting intrauterine undernutrition) and offspring of …
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An Inquiry Concerning the Nature of Racial Discourse
… to track races in humans: racial cognition in early infancy is the result of a psychological mechanism that humans have evolved to assess similarities/differences in human faces, and racial cognition later in life is the result of various mechanisms that evolved to track social groups of one …
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Supporting fathering through infant massage
… their ability to form a close attachment in the early post-partum period, which in turn may increase their stress level. However, men can be prepared for the transition to fatherhood if they develop the knowledge and skill necessary to create positive relationships with their infants. Infant …
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Nutritional Stress & Early Development in the Neolithic Near East: A Comparison of Adult and Subadult Tooth Size
… lead to an increase in nutritional stress among early agriculturalists. Stress could occur at various stages along the life course and could be related to the mother-infant dyad. Stress can be recorded in the dentition that form in utero and throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence. …
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The influence of water, sanitation and hygiene and feeding practices on growth status and antibiotic resistance in infants aged 0-6 months in Dzimauli rural villages
… and middle-income countries, particularly during early infancy. This study explored the influence of water, sanitation and hygiene practices and feeding practices on growth status and antibiotic resistance in infants aged 0-6 months in the Dzimauli rural villages, Limpopo Province, South Africa. A …
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Linking child care to infant attachment : what lies in-between?
… care and security of motherinfant attachment in early infancy. <br></br><br></br>Design: Prospective. Methods: The participants for this study were 67 mothers and their infants enrolled in a large scale prospective study. The first 100 women were sent a letter outlining the current study and …
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Vitamin D status and requirements during pregnancy and lactation
… D deficiency during pregnancy, lactation, and early infancy has been widely reported. Current understanding of vitamin D metabolism during pregnancy and lactation is incomplete, and to date, experimental data to support vitamin D requirements for these life stages are scarce. There is a …
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Seen but not heard: Reconstructing the early life history of the Industrial child through carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of dentine collagen
Objective This project reconstructs the early life history of the child in industrial London using incremental dentine analysis of both adults (survivors) and children (non-survivors) within a single 19th century London burial population to investigate the effects which changing social and economic …
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Differences in resting state functional networks in HIV infected and uninfected children at age 7 years
Although early administration of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in infants provides the brain some protection against HIV damage, few studies have examined the long-term effects of HIV infection and HAART on neurodevelopment, and none have measured their impact on functional brain …
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The growth of homosexual identity : an empirical study from a social work perspective of crisis in sexual identity experienced by a sample of homosexual persons in Cape Town, with special reference to cultural factors
… various developmental stages ranging from early infancy to late adulthood. The study concludes that homosexual identity growth is a dynamic and on-going process catalysed by the interaction between self, society, and sub-culture. Homosexual identity is strongly linked to the gay sub-culture …
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Genetic and environmental influences on cord blood atopic markers and on atopic sensitisation in infancy
… and environmental control measures during early infancy may reduce the incidence and/or postpone the onset of atopic disease. In order to institute this prophylactic regime, early identification of the infants genetically "at risk" for atopic disease is essential, since sensitisation begins …
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Food choices of young women with lower educational attainment
… supply of nutrients to the fetus and in early infancy will increase the risk of ill health in later life. The Southampton Women’s Survey (SWS) found that education was the strongest predictor of consuming a diet in line with current government recommendations. Women of lower educational …
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Genetic Modulation of the Neonatal Neural Processing of Speech at High and Low Familial Risk for Developmental Dyslexia
… phonological development as it occurs during early infancy. One hundred infants (49 at high familial dyslexia risk) were assessed at birth, and half of them were followed up longitudinally at 7.5, 15 and 24 months of age. The current dissertation is focused on the neonatal dataset only. …
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The Role of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Carriage on Wasting Among Vaccinated Gambian Infants: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Birth Cohort
… stunted and 41.7% (50/120) became underweight. Nearly all the children (97.5%) became pneumococcus carriers at least once in the two years of follow up, with 50% of children becoming carriers within the first month of life. A small proportion of the children (15.8%) were born carriers. Carriage …
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COVID-VACCINES IN PREGNANCY: MATERNAL AND NEONATAL RESPONSE OVER THE FIRST 9 MONTHS AFTER DELIVERY
… mechanism during their immunologically immature early life. Methodology This prospective observational study recruited 98 pregnant women who received at least one dose of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine during different trimesters. Maternal and neonatal antibody levels were assessed at birth (T0), and …
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