OBJECTIVE This cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the relationships between food preferences, food neophobia, and children's characteristics among a population-based sample of preschoolers. DESIGN A parent-report questionnaire. SETTING Child-care centers, kindergartens, playgroups, day nurseries, and swimming centers. SUBJECTS 371 two- to five-year-old Australian children. ...

Concentration of juveniles of marine fishes in nurseries may act as a bottleneck during the life cycle, where quantity and quality of nurseries determine population size. Macroalgal blooms have become a common phenomenon in eutrophic shallow waters worldwide, and matforming algae may now cover many essential nursery habitats. In this investigation, the aim was to assess the quantitative effect ...

Nurseries are one of the essential agronomic activities in oil palm cultivation. Oil seedlings cultivated on a large scale, different from nurseries for other plantation commodities. The nursery expanse comprises various biotic components, which is Arthropods. This study aims to determine Artropod community and its function nurseries. research was carried out at two nurseries, Nagari Gunung Med...

Sixty rhizosphere soil samples of apple seedlings and rootstock were collected from six nurseries of Khuzdar and Kalat districts of Balochistan. Six different plant nematodes were found associated with the seedlings and rootstock. The most predominant nematode was Xiphinema americanum, whereas the nematode found from a single locality was Tylenchus butteus. A matrix of similarities with respect...

The purpose of this article is to determine the predictors positive and negative parenting practices among mothers two-to-three-year-old children in Tirana, Albania. Cross-sectional data were obtained from a representative sample 328 recruited through eight randomly selected public nurseries Tirana. Results bivariate regressions showed significant associations between key relevant maternal char...

The presence in war-time day nurseries of groups of young children provided an opportunity for investigating anaemia in children under five years of age. There are, however, considerable drawbacks to such investigations in day nurseries. Chief among these are the high rate of cross-infections, the unstable population, and the investigator's ignorance, from lack of contact with the mothers, of t...

BACKGROUND Seasonal influenza vaccine was once part of the routine immunization schedule that is routinely offered to all children in Japan, but it is now excluded from the schedule. This study aimed to investigate factors influential to parents' decision to have their children receive seasonal influenza vaccine, as well as types of seasonal influenza vaccine information that is given to parent...