BACKGROUND Several studies have evaluated the relationship between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB), but the nature of this relationship is not fully understood. TB incidence may be influenced by immunosuppression from DM, but this association may be confounded by other clinical and socioeconomic factors. We aimed to assess socio-demographic and clinical differences in TB patients w...

I . The effect of fortification of rice with lysine and threonine (at levels of z g and I g/kg respectively) on the growth of preschool children was assessed in feeding trials at a residential orphanage and a village day-care centre. 2. In the first trial, the children at the orphanage were offered a diet based on rice, to provide the recommended allowances of protein and energy. For the childr...

Nutrition and hunger have social, psychological and physical connotations, all documented since the first written records. Among documents of our own time that draw attention to these connotations are: Sorokin's (1975) volume on starvation in post-revolutionary Russia; the SHAEF report on the famine in the Netherlands in the immediate aftermath of World War II (Burger et al. 1948); the observat...

AIM To assess the psychological health of war-traumatized children in different foster settings and compare them with children living with one or both parents, 7 years after the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. METHOD The study was carried out in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in March 2002. We assessed 186 (93 girls and 93 boys) elementary school children aged 12.7-/+1.8 years for wa...

Since the isolation of crystalline vitamin B12 (B12) from liver many reports have appeared during the past several years on the supplemental effect of the vitamin on the growth of children in U.S.A. and in some other countries (1). The duration of the studies was from 4 weeks to 2 years, and the number of children subjected to individual study was from 9 to 418. The status of the subjects in ea...

Ahmad Dahlan is an Islamic reformer known for one of his concepts humanity (compassion). This research aims to examine Dahlan's thoughts and practices about the humanitarian concept "compassion" based on love unite people who are part basic values prophetic spirit. employed historical method utilizing sources from results previous studies, Verslag Openbare Vergedering PKO (No. 10), a collection...

Abstract:  Introduction: The current study as a part of our investigation on improving emotional and behavioural health in Malaysian orphanages was aimed to establish Content Validity Index (CVI) as well as Face Validity of a new life skill-based module for improving emotional health and coping mechanisms in Malaysian Institutionalised Adolescents including 2 different parts. Methods: In...

A decade after the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we interviewed a total of 68 Rwandan orphans about their war experiences and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The two samples comprised youth living either in a child-headed household (CHH) or in an orphanage. All had been exposed to extreme levels of violence and 41% had witnessed the murder of their own mother or father. Of the sample, 4...

Clear hand laterality patterns in humans are widely accepted. However, humans only elicit a significant hand laterality pattern when performing complementary role differentiation (CRD) tasks. Meanwhile, hand laterality in chimpanzees is weaker and controversial. Here we have reevaluated our results on hand laterality in chimpanzees housed in naturalistic environments at Fundació Mona (Spain) an...

Zinc is an essential nutrient having a complex biological role, including neuropsychological aspects. The study aimed to compare zinc level and psychic features in two pupils groups from different socioeconomic backgrounds. It also ascertains the relationship between zinc levels and aspects of intellectual development (attention, memory, intelligence) and personality features (psychoticism, neu...