Pomacentridae are one of the most abundant fish families inhabiting reefs of tropical and temperate regions. This family, comprising 29 genera, shows a remarkable diversity of habitat preferences, feeding, and behaviours. Twenty-four species belonging to seven genera have been reported in the Eastern Pacific region. The present study focuses on the relationship between the diet and the cephalic...

background and aims. early childhood caries (ecc) is a public health problem with biological, social and behavioural determinants and the notion that the principal etiology is inappropriate feeding modalities is no longer tenable. hence this study was undertaken to assess the relationship between ecc and socio-demographic factors, dietary habits, oral hygiene habits and parental characteristics...

BACKGROUND Co-occurrence of feeding and language disorders. AIM To investigate possible connections between feeding and language disorders, based on a bio-psychic perspective. METHOD A clinical-qualitative methodology, developed through a longitudinal study of a clinical case of a three year old boy with the complaint 'does not speak or eat' and with a medical diagnosis of gastroesophageal ...

Determination of when and where animals feed and how much they consume is fundamental to understand their ecology and role in ecosystems. However, the lack of reliable data on feeding habits of wild animals, and particularly in marine endotherms, attests to the difficulty in doing this. A promising recent development proposes using a Hall sensor-magnet system, the inter-mandibular angle sensor ...

The feeding habits and trophic level of Himantura gerrardi were studied according to sex and size classes utilizing 80 individuals obtained using bottom trawl between May and December 2014 from Oman Sea. Collected specimens were divided in three size classes (small 58 cm) based on disk width (DW). Preys were identified in seven main zoological categories, where crustacean and polychaetes were t...

Fish are the most diversified group of vertebrates and, although progress has been made in the past years, only relatively few fish species have been examined to date, with regards to the endocrine regulation of feeding in fish. In fish, as in mammals, feeding behavior is ultimately regulated by central effectors within feeding centers of the brain, which receive and process information from en...

A spontaneous decrease in maternal drinking and smoking often occurs during pregnancy. The present study was conducted to determine if these lower levels of maternal drinking and smoking during pregnancy persist into the postpartum period, and if so, to determine if they are related to breastfeeding. Drinking and smoking were estimated in three cohorts of postpartum women who had been followed ...

In this study, the evaluation of factors affecting consumers’ perception and habits for poultry meat consumption; breeding processes were investigated. For these purposes, consumer breeder surveys conducted with attendance 655 consumers 323 producers from Turkey. Consumer survey focuses on purchasing habits, consumption preferences, effects news false-facts about poultry's washing, thawing, fee...

AIM The aim of the study was the validation and adaptation of the ORTO-15 Questionnaire in the group of the Polish schoolgirls and schoolboys. METHODS The study included 399 participants (15-21 years old), all of them high school students in the city of Sosnowiec. The ORTO-15 is a tool created in Italy by L.M. Donini, comprising of 15 items describing intensification of orthorexia risk (popul...