BACKGROUND Emotional and behavioural problems in children are common. Research suggests that parenting has an important role to play in helping children to become well-adjusted, and that the first few months and years are especially important. Parenting programmes may have a role to play in improving the emotional and behavioural adjustment of infants and toddlers. This review is applicable to ...

A total of 77 children (34 boys, 43 girls, mean age ± standard deviation = 9 ± 1 years) participated in this study; 46 children (intervention) undertook a 12-week school gardening programme and 31 children acted as controls. Measures of the Theory of Planned Behaviour and fruit and vegetable consumption were taken pre- and post-intervention. Repeated measures analysis of variance and hierarchic...

Knowing the locations and paths of individual mice is important for behavioural analysis of large groups of laboratory mice. Traditional observations are carried out by trained humans who are able to distinguish more than 50 behavioural patterns. A tedious labour limited with respect to observation length. In this paper an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)based tracking solution is presente...

BACKGROUND Low birthweight has been shown to predict behavioural problems in children. Less is known about the effect of birthweight, and how this may interact with the social environment in determining behaviour in a general population sample. We have examined the relationship between birthweight and social factors on childhood psychological well-being. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of da...

Analysis of market segments within a population remains critical to agricultural systems and policy processes for targeting new innovations. Patterns in attitudes and intentions toward cultivating Provitamin A GM cassava are examined through the use of a combination of behavioural theory and k-means cluster analysis method, investigating the interrelationship among various behavioural anteceden...

Behavioural Hybrid Process Calculus (BHPC) is a formalism for modelling and analysis of hybrid systems combining process algebras and the behavioural approach for modelling of instantaneous changes and continuous evolution. BHPC is supported by Bhave toolset, containing a tool for a novel way of visualisation of hybrid systems simulations msp-svg and a new version of hybrid simulator. We presen...

Methods A retrospective qualitative content analysis of a Norovirus outbreak was undertaken, using critical incident analysis as the basis for conducting semi-structured interviews with 24 key clinical and managerial participants. Behavioural references were mapped to a behavioural framework (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2007) that describes positive behaviours, known as ‘mindful behaviours’ and negati...

Emotional and behavioural difficulties of a sample of children and young people were identified at the point of entry to local authority care by analysis of social work case files. The files indicated high levels of need, including that in children aged under 5. Bedwetting was identified as an important issue related to the physical health and emotional well-being of looked-after children. Ther...

BACKGROUND The association of medical ethics with teaching and training and health profession has been informal, largely dependent on role modelling and the social contract of the physicians with the community that they abide by. This study was conducted to examine the effect, if any, of introducing the subject of Behavioural Sciences on students' performance in the clinical years' 'viva voce' ...

Web services are emerging as a promising technology for the development of next generation distributed heterogeneous software systems. Some prominent challenges for Web services are the discovery of services which match some given requirements, the composition of services into new complex applications, and the safe replacement of (sub)services. The primary objective of this thesis is to define ...