If parents expect higher market returns to schooling or additional transfers from their children, they invest more in their children’s schooling. Results from models of schooling demand using data from the Malaysian Family Life Surveys of 1976 and 1989 suggest that market returns of mothers but not fathers positively affected schooling. The propensity for parents to spend time with their parent...

Introduction Several methods to decrease foot pressure applying foot orthosis wedge or gait strategies by evaluating foot pressure increased abnormally by various foot diseases are under investigation [1]. Recently, studies on foot orthosis, diabetic shoes and old people footwear have been conducted, but there have been a few studies on orthotic devices such as metatarsal pad, dome and wedge [2...

Although some point to the large effects of schooling on civic engagement (usually measured in terms of volunteering and participation in civic organizations) and social cohesion (usually measured in terms of social networks and relationship quality), the effects of schooling on social outcomes have not been estimated with the same rigor as the effects of schooling on labor-market outcomes, suc...

The rapid rise in schooling in developing countries in recent decades has been dramatic. However, many cross-country regression analyses of the impact of schooling on economic growth find low and insignificant coefficients. This empirical ‘puzzle’ contrasts with theoretical arguments that schooling, through raising human capital, should raise income levels. This paper argues that poor results a...

footdrop is a relatively common deficit among the neurological disorders, which has different causes with various levels of involvement in neuromuscular system, including central nervous system (brain cortex, spinal cord), fifth lumbar root, peripheral nerves and muscles. peroneal nerve injury at the fibular head has been reported to the most common cause of foot drop, which can be due to infar...

Background: In cerebral palsy, importance must be given on effective and efficient walking. 30 subjects; 16 males 14 females (mean age 6.5 year) of spastic palsy with knee hyperextension ankle equines were included in this study fitted bilateral moldedhinged SKAFO pair shoes.Methods: Observational gait analysis by video recording was performed parameters 10 m walk test angle at mid stance using...

INTRODUCTION The main goal of the resources project «Healthy claws - foundation for future» is to establish a Swiss national claw health monitoring programme cattle, similar what has already been established in other countries (e. g. Finland, Sweden). So far course project, 30 trimmers have trained use digital recording software. An appropriate training concept and information work environment ...

This paper studies the provision of schooling in British India from 1850 to 1917, when education policy was under the direct control of the East India Company and the British Crown. Although colonial policy made several recommendations to increase mass schooling, the growth of primary education generally lagged behind secondary education over most of the period. In addition to official policy, ...