Infants and toddlers are prone to rapidly contracting illnesses, which are usually attributed to infectious diseases. Most nurseries and schools in Japan, however, refuse to accept children even with mild illnesses. For working parents, a sick child may therefore create new problems as the situation requires new day-care arrangements. To support such families, the Japanese government subsidizes...

Introduction. The etiological factors influencing the haemoglobin level of the community in this country and the effects of minor grades of anaemia are still incompletely known, and the present investigation represents an attempt to obtain data bearing on these subjects among children attending war-time day nurseries. Many of the inferences have, however, a wider application. Clinical material....

Phosphorus deficiency is a major limiting factor in horticultural production. One potential solution can be restoring soil phosphorus from mineral resources, such as solid phosphate sludge (SPS) generated treatment processes at mining sites agriculture. This study explores the possibility of using this nurseries to produce fruit and forest plants. We tested six mixtures SPS with sandy Maamora o...

Concentration of juveniles of marine fishes in nurseries may act as a bottleneck during the life cycle, where quantity and quality of nurseries determine population size. Macroalgal blooms have become a common phenomenon in eutrophic shallow waters worldwide, and matforming algae may now cover many essential nursery habitats. In this investigation, the aim was to assess the quantitative effect ...