The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) near Wilsonville, Alabama, is a joint project of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Southern Company, and other industrial participants currently including the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), and Peabody Energy. The PSDF is ...

background: in india, child malnutrition is mostly the result of high levels of exposure to infection and inappropriate infant and young child feeding and caring practices and has its origins almost entirely during the first 2 to 3 years of life. this study aims in assessing the impact of breast feeding on child development of children at 3 years. methods: about 530 children at 3 years were ass...

abstract background: assessment of developmental skills is one of the most essential components of children’s health evaluation. since several pubertal disorders are caused by parental negligence in diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of childhood problems, failure to make a timely diagnosis of these problems could have adverse effects on the health of children in future. this study was conduc...

Background: Cerebral Palsy can be defined as a cluster of disorders acting on person’s movement, posture, and balance. Palsy, which affects 2 to 3 out every 1000 live births, is caused by variety factors, including brain injury affect It’s linked the perinatal period in about 92% cases. Premature birth, infections, intrauterine growth restrictions, multiple gestations, other risk factors are al...

while studies have shown the disastrous effects of post-partum depression (ppd) on children's behaviors, there is relatively lack of reliable data in asian countries. this study examined the relative significance of maternal ppd in children's developmental disabilities at age four. in a longitudinal study design (2009), 1801 pregnant women attending in primary health centers of mazandaran provi...

Breastfeeding plays a pivotal role in the promotion of health and prevention of psychological problems in children. This study aimed to compare the effects of breastfeeding educational programs on the development of infants aged 1-3 months based on the model of Belief, Attitude, Subjective Norm, and Enabling Factors (BASNEF) and application of acupressure on the GB-21 point. Methods: This quasi...

Introduction: Although the survival rate of infants born preterm has increased, the prevalence of developmental problems and motor disorders among this population of infants remains the same. This study investigated the effect of physical activity programs in and out of water on motor performance and neuromuscular development of infants born preterm and had induced immobility by mechanical vent...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale for Children's Handwriting. METHOD The Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration ...

BACKGROUND In this study, we investigated the developmental functions and autistic profiles in children with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). In addition, we established the relationships between developmental and autistic profiles in these children. METHODS The medical records of 12 children with FXS, aged 2 to 7 years, were collected. Fifteen children with autism, without FXS, who were age- and se...