this study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in delta state, nigeria. a total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

This essay describes the setting up of early intervention services in Vietnam. From the outset, there was a focus on developing staff training programmes alongside establishing model early intervention programmes to ensure that the work would be sustained at the end of the project funding and spread throughout the country. The success of this work has now led to the government of Vietnam wantin...

twenty five blood samples from 6-month to 5-year old children with visceral leishmaniasis were analysed for various enzymes. aspartate transaminase (ast), alanine transaminase (alt), lactate dehydrogenase (ld) and its various isoenzymes were estimated in the serum, while glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) was measured in red blood cells. for comparison, blood samples from healthy children...

We propose that people judge immoral acts as more offensive and moral acts as more virtuous when the acts are psychologically distant than near. This is because people construe more distant situations in terms of moral principles, rather than attenuating situation-specific considerations. Results of four studies support these predictions. Study 1 shows that more temporally distant transgression...

The purpose of this study was to explain the variability in data collected from a single-case design study and to identify predictors of communicative outcomes for children with developmental delays or disabilities (n = 4). Using SAS University Edition, we fit multilevel models with time nested within children. Children's initial levels of communication and teachers' frequency of strategy use w...

Since 2001 the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at the University of Queensland has been involved in RoboCup Junior activities aimed at providing children with the Robot building and programming knowledge they need to succeed in RoboCup Junior competitions. These activities include robotics workshops, the organization of the State-wide RoboCup Junior competitio...