C hildren in the United States watch an average of 4 hours of television per day. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children younger than 2 years of age avoid all types of television viewing and that children 2 years of age or older should not be exposed to more than 2 hours per day of entertainment media or “screen time” (ie, time sitting in front of a television or computer s...

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bstract—The effect of an acute bout of moderate treadmill alking on behavioral and neuroelectric indexes of the cogitive control of attention and applied aspects of cognition nvolved in school-based academic performance were asessed. A within-subjects design included 20 preadolescent articipants (age 9.5 0.5 years; eight female) to assess exrcise-induced changes in performance during a modified...

A randomised trial of prenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation in Nepalese women increased birthweight and weight at 2 years of age in offspring, compared to those born to mothers who only received iron and folic acid supplements. Further follow-up of this cohort provided an opportunity to investigate the effect of antenatal multiple micronutrients on subsequent lung function by measurin...

C hildren in many developing countries suffer from profound deficits in nutrition, health, fine and gross motor skills, cognitive development, and socioemotional development. Early childhood development outcomes are important markers of children’s welfare in their own right. In addition, the deleterious effects of inadequate development at early ages can be long lasting. Children display large ...

C hildren and adolescents can develop hearing loss by listening to loud noises or music. The hearing loss can happen with extremely loud noise over a short time frame, such as when a teen goes to a music concert for a night or goes on a hunting trip and listens to gunfire for a day. Hearing loss can also happen with loud noises over a longer time, such as when teens listen to loud music in thei...

Kieran T. Herley Department of Computer S ien e, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland k.herley s.u .ie Andrea Pietra aprina, Geppino Pu i, Dipartimento di Elettroni a e Informati a, Universit a di Padova, Padova, Italy fandrea,geppog artemide.dei.unipd.it Abstra t The ba ktra k sear h problem involves visiting all the nodes of an arbitrary binary tree given a pointer to its root, subje t to t...

hanks to the efforts of Dr. Robert Guthrie at the beginning f the sixties, neonatal screening has become a true diagnosic tool for diseases that, if not detected early, can result in mportant complications to the health of the child.1 Today, eonatal screening represents one of themain advances in the revention of pediatric diseases, and is based on diagnosing athologies that are relatively freq...

The ability to afford needed dental care is the key difference between those children who miss school due to a dental problem and those who do not. Among all school age children, those who need dental care but cannot afford it are more likely to miss one or more school days due to dental problems Of the 7,240,000 school age children ages 5-17 in California, an estimated 504,000 (7%) missed at l...