Aldolase catalyses the reversible splitting of fructose 1 :6-diphosphateto glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and dihydroxy-acetone phosphate. Diagnostically it is of value in distinguishing primary muscular disease from neurogenic muscular atrophy. Most investigators agree that levels are higher in normal children, especially the newly born, than in normal adults and that there is no sex difference (S...

The current study examined the self-reported prevalence and nature of cyberbullying and victimization among second, third, and fourth grade students (N=372) and explored associated features of home and school life. Of the children in the current sample, 27 percent had been victims of cyberbullying, 18 percent had been aggressors, and 15 percent had been both cyberbullies and victims. Boys were ...

The current investigation examined the differential effectiveness of PeaceBuilders, a large-scale, universal violence prevention program, on male and female youth identified as low, medium, or high risk for future violence. It included eight urban schools randomly assigned to intensive intervention and wait-list control conditions. The current sample included N = 2,380 predominantly minority ch...

This study examines a sharp decline of school attendance among white children in the Southern US after the Civil War. According to Census data, the school-attendance rate among whites in the Confederate states declined by almost half from 1860 to 1870, whereas that in the Northern states was approximately stable. This shock left the South approximately three decades behind its antebellum trend....

The present study was designed to explore the performance of children in competitive and cooperative condition. The sample was randomly selected from different schools of Peshawar city. They were 80 children who were selected randomly with an age range of 8-10 years. The duration of the experimental work was two months i.e. January 1 to March 1 2007. The task of 650 arithmetic problems was assi...

Telstra is Australia's leading telecommunications carrier and largest single user of information technology (IT). In November 1990, the Australian federal government announced wide-ranging reforms and the introduction of competition within the telecommunications sector. Realising that it was essential for the corporation to leverage its use of technology on a firm-wide basis in order to remain ...