Feed intake characteristics of 192, 27-d-old weanling pigs housed in groups and given ad libitum access to feed and water were measured individually with the use of computerized feeding stations. The groups were either homogeneous or heterogeneous as to BW distribution; pigs of three defined initial BW classes were used (mean BW of 6.7, 7.9, or 9.3 kg). The effects of BW distribution, BW class,...

Stochastic analysis was applied to observations of spontaneous behavior in the carnivorous mollusc Melibe leonina. Six behaviors were denned that could be easily recognized on inspection and it was found that transitions between each of these behaviors could be fully described by a first-order random process without memory of past behavioral choices. The behaviors are organized by frequency of ...

conclusions parental style could play a different role in conducting risky behaviors among girls and boys. therefore, appropriate parental styles should be used in bringing up children based on their gender. background gender differences play an important role in risky behaviors such as drug use, of the youth. despite having a substantial youth population in the middle east north africa (mena) ...

background and aims : the harms resulted from home injuries are a major factor in child mortality. the current study aims to evaluate the factors associated with the knowledge and performance level of mothers in terms of adopting preventive behaviors to avoid home injuries. materials and methods : the target population of this descriptive - analytical study is all mothers of preschool children ...

this is a quasi-experimental study. purpose was to investigate effect of education on health behaviors of mothers of children under 6-12 years old, about prevention of typhoid. a sample of 60 mothers selected and then divided to two groups. one group had typhoid and the other didn't have typhoid. data were collected by a questionnaire with two parts. the first part included demographic and...

abstract background and purpose: priority health-risk behaviors, often are established during childhood and adolescence, extend into adulthood, and are interrelated and preventable. this study was conducted to determine and compare the prevalence of risky behaviors on both sexes of freshman students enrolled in tehran university, iran. materials and methods: this study was a descriptive-analyti...

background: parenting style is associated with children's health-related behaviors. one of the popularity and applicability assessment tools is parenting style and dimensions questionnaire (psdq) that the lack of iranian version can be seen.this study was conducted to determine the validity and reliability of iranian version of psdq.materials and methods: this study was done with randomize...

Vol. 17, No. 3 2000 pp. 143–154 The adolescent developmental period has consistently been documented to be more strongly characterised by a propensity to engage in risk-taking behaviours than any other developmental period. Such behaviours have potentially dangerous or even fatal outcomes (e.g., Arnett, 1992; Flannery, Vazsonyi, & Rowe, 1996; Gonzalez et al., 1994; Gullone, Moore, Moss, & Boyd,...

Studies of entrepreneurial orientation tend to examine its three most common features only (risk-taking, innovativeness, and proactiveness), merging these into a gestalt construct of entrepreneurial orientation and then analyzing its effect on business performance. This is in contrast to Lumpkin andDesswho stressed an entrepreneurial orientation is best characterized by five dimensions which ca...

This paper compares two prominent empirical measures of individual risk attitudes the Holt and Laury (2002) lottery-choice task and the multi-item questionnaire advocated by Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, Schupp, Sunde and Wagner (2011) with respect to (a) their within-subject stability over time (one year) and (b) their correlation with actual risk-taking behaviour in the lab here the amount sent in a...