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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"infants and young children"”.
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An evaluation of early intervention efforts with severely and profoundly retarded infants and young children
… provided by the "Early Start" program at Inland Regional Center. Text includes cover letter, survey form, and informed consent form in Spanish and English.
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Functional outcomes of a feeding intervention programme for infants and young children with cerebral palsy
… Red Cross Hospital, Cape Town between May and September 2004. The sample population was a group of mothers/caregivers and their infants and young children, who presented with evolving or severe cerebral palsy, persistent feeding difficulties and other multiple disabilities. The research was …
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A Study on the Relationships Among Smartphone Addiction, Parenting Attitudes, Parenting Efficacy, and Parenting Behaviors of Mothers with Infants and Young Children
… parenting attitudes, parenting efficacy, and parenting behaviors of mothers with infants and young children. Data collection was carried out at three place(child care center, culture center and company), that could met the mothers with infants and young children. The subject were 178 …
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The nutritive, rheological and sensory quality of selected indigenous complementary foods used for 6 – 24 months infants and young children in African communities
… the porridge rheology, poor oral texture quality and low nutritional value of mainly the indigenous/local complementary porridges (CPs), but also some commercially available complementary porridges (CACFs) fed to infants and young children. The flow properties (viscosity) of common …
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Studies bearing on: (1) The nutrition of Bantu infants and young children and (2) The metabolism of calcium and iron by Bantu children and adults
… persons, of whom under a third are urbanised, and over a third each work on farms of Whites or live in the Native Reserves. These local Bantu are comprised of several ethnic groups, the largest of which are Zulu and Xhosa. While some communities of rural Bantu still live in a primitive manner. …
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Universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) for infants and young children living with HIV: assessing the effect of guideline changes on ART initiation characteristics and treatment outcomes in resource-limited settings
… Sub-Saharan Africa is home to >90% of all children living with HIV worldwide. Since 2008, there has been a shift in paediatric HIV treatment towards universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) allowing for immediate initiation of ART, regardless of clinical or immunologic status initially for …
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The inter-relationship of gastro-enteritis and malnutrition in Cape Town
… important cause of illness throughout the world and remains a leading cause of death among infants and young children. The number of deaths from this condition is estimated at 5 million a year. There are important clinical differences in the disease as it manifests itself in previously normal …
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The inter-relationship of gastro-enteritis and malnutrition in Cape Town
… important cause of illness throughout the world and remains a leading cause of death among infants and young children. The number of deaths from this condition is estimated at 5 million a year. There are important clinical differences in the disease as it manifests itself in previously normal …
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The inter-relationship of gastro-enteritis and malnutrition in Cape Town
… important cause of illness throughout the world and remains a leading cause of death among infants and young children. The number of deaths from this condition is estimated at 5 million a year. There are important clinical differences in the disease as it manifests itself in previously normal …
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Expression Of Cholera Toxin B Subunit-rotavirus Nsp4 Enterotoxin Fusion Protein In Transgenic Chloroplasts
… is a member of the Reoviridae family and is considered to be the single most important cause of virus-based severe diarrheal illness in infants and young children particularly 6 months to 2 years of age in industrialized and developing countries. Infection in infants and young children …
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A Compact Ultrasonic Airflow Sensor for Clinical Monitoring of Pediatric Tracheostomy Patients
Infants and young children with tracheostomies need better respiratory monitors. Mucus in the tracheostomy tube presents a serious choking hazard. Current devices indirectly detect respiration, often yielding false or delayed alarms. A compact ultrasonic time-of-flight (TOF) airflow sensor capable …
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The translation and validation of the LittlEARS auditory questionnaire in isiZulu
… worldwide, affecting approximately 34 million children whose daily lives are substantially impaired. To mitigate the detrimental effects of untreated hearing impairment, paediatric audiologists aim to identify hearing loss as early as possible. This proactive approach enables them to implement …
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Development of novel conjugate vaccines against Salmonella
… vaccines are only moderately immunogenic in infants and young children and revaccination is required every few years. Therefore, new vaccines are needed, which not only confer long-term protection against S. Typhi but also other harmful S. enterica serovars. Conjugate vaccines are among the …
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A Prospective, Longitudinal Evaluation of Early Temperament Indicators of Autism in Males with Fragile X Syndrome
… that are indicative of later autism diagnoses in infants at high-risk due to having an older sibling with a diagnosis of autism. However, no studies have been conducted to examine the relationship between temperament and the emergence of autism in infants and young children with fragile X syndrome …
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Online data collection for developmental research
The strategies infants and young children use to understand the world around them provide unique insight into the structure of human cognition. However, developmental research is subject to heavy pragmatic constraints on recruiting large numbers of participants, bringing families back for repeat …
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The double burden of malnutrition in South Africa: risk factors for undernutrition and overnutrition and the development of a novel mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) screening tool in children
… which contribute to childhood malnutrition and assess the performance of a malnutrition screening tool in a South African population. The first study was conducted on 400 infants and children younger than 24 months of age from primary health facilities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The …
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The relationship between eye gaze, parent-child attachment and language acquisition
The process by which infants and young children acquire language is complex and intricate. Environmental elements and social interactions coupled with internal, biologic mechanisms instigate and facilitate language acquisition. While it seems that credit should be equally distributed between these …
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Secretion of the rotavirus VP7 capsid glycoprotein from polarised epithelial cells
… a major cause of severe diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children worldwide. Rotavirus is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) non-enveloped virus that infects polarised epithelial cells lining the upper region of the small intestine villi. Among the structural proteins of rotavirus, the VP7 …
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From Magnitudes to Math: Developmental Precursors of Quantitative Reasoning
… of quantity that are present at birth and shared with many other animal species. These primitive numerical representations are thought to arise from an evolutionarily ancient system termed the Approximate Number System (ANS). The present dissertation aims to determine how these …
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3- to 4-year-old children adapt to recent experience to learn novel words
"Infants and young children can use linguistic context to infer the meaning of novel words, and they can also adjust their expectations about the current linguistic context based on recent linguistic input. Havron et al. (2019) were the first to show that preschool children can use recently adapted …
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