BACKGROUND There is evidence that poverty, health and nutrition affect children's cognitive development. This study aimed to examine the relative contributions of both proximal and distal risk factors on child cognitive development, by breaking down the possible causal pathways through which poverty affects cognition. METHODS This cohort study collected data on family socioeconomic status, ho...

The playgroup movement started 10 years ago as a "do-ityourself" nursery school in London. It has now mushroomed into a national organization named the Preschool Playgroup Association (P.P.A.) with a membership of over 7,000 groups. Each branch area has an organizer whose expenses are paid by the local groups, and centrally there are two national advisers who are paid from a Government grant. T...

Agrobacterium larrymoorei causes tumors on weeping fig. The association between propagation and pathogen spread in mother trees and daughter branches was studied in a commercial nursery. The mother tree planting was scouted for tumors prior to and after propagation. Branches selected for propagation were tagged to track disease development. The spatial distribution of crown gall in the mother t...

Chloropicrin fumigation, Eptam 7-E (EPTC) herbicide, and Paenibacillus macerans seed treatments were evaluated as alternatives to fumigation with methyl bromide/chloropicrin for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) seedling production at three nurseries in the southern United States. A treatment of metam sodium/chloropicrin was also evaluated at one nursery. Seedling density was unaffected by fumigat...

We investigated an increase in cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) at a large urban facility where a prior nosocomial outbreak of MDRTB had occurred. Nosocomial transmission appeared to account for this outbreak as well, including a cluster of cases in a newborn nursery. Seven of 24 patients (29%) described in this investigation may have been exposed in the hospital nursery during...

Developing a childcare assisting system is highly necessary due to the lack of nursery teachers, and it will make an important progress on effective utilization of nursery teacher resources. In this paper, we proposed simultaneous children recognition and tracking system by using Kinect sensors for the childcare assisting system to provide information for the nursery teachers. Each of the child...

Regulation of the growth, development, and quality of plants by the control of light quality has attracted extensive attention worldwide. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of continuous LED spectrum for indoor plant pre-cultivation and to investigate the morphological and physiological responses of a common broadleaved tree species in Mediterranean environment, Quercus ithaburens...

Open-pollinated seed was collected in 1963 from 81 trees in natural stands along the Mississippi River between Clarkscfale and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Twenty-nine of the trees were chosen for outstanding growth and form; the remaining 52 were randomly selected. Seeds were cleaned, then stored at 38° F and 25 percent relative humidity until sown on August 5. They were sown in subirrigated plant ...

Crown gall disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens is considered as the main bacterial disease of stone fruit rootstocks in Tunisia against which only prophylactic control measures are available. Therefore, twelve rhizobacterial strains and two reference antagonists Agrobacterium rhizogenes K84 and K1026 were investigated for their efficacy against the causal agent of the disease in vitro, ...

/^\N the invitation of the Islington Borough Council a conference of over a hundred delegates from Metropolitan Borough Councils, including in each case the Medical Officer of Health, and various bodies devoted to children's welfare, met in the Islington Town Hall to consider the advisability of establishing Day Nursery Schools in the Metropolis on the lines of the Rachel McMillan School at Gre...