Human children 18-24 months of age and 3 young chimpanzees interacted in 4 cooperative activities with a human adult partner. The human children successfully participated in cooperative problem-solving activities and social games, whereas the chimpanzees were uninterested in the social games. As an experimental manipulation, in each task the adult partner stopped participating at a specific poi...

ovarian mass at US: Incremental value of second imaging test for characterization – Meta‑analysis and Bayesian analysis. Large hemorrhagic ovarian cyst in postmenopausal patient with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak...

Kumar, V., Ghai, 0. P., and Chase, H. P. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 801. Intestinal dipeptide hydrolase activities in undernourished children. Intestinal dipeptide hydrolase enzymes cleave dipeptides into amino acids. In 8 undernourished children with diarrhoea, mean intestinal mucosal glyclyl-proline hydrolase activity was reduced 40%, valyl-proline hydrolase activity 38%, a...

Preschoolers’ categorization differs from adults’; therefore it is beneficial to involve them in the design process to create appropriate information architecture for this age group. In this paper, we describe three card sorting activities conducted with a total of fifty six preschool children in five nurseries. We conclude that a closed card sorting task can be combined with a matchto-sample a...

Since incidence of idiopathic calcium oxalate urolithiasis in children was very low, a study was made to analyze the risk factors of calcium oxalate stone in male volunteers without any episode of urolithiasis. They were divided into four groups, group I: eight years old, group II: 11 years old, group III: 18 to 24 years old, group IV: 41 to 45 years old. Inhibitory activities of urine were sig...

BACKGROUND The oxidant stress, expected to increase in obese adults, has an important role in the pathogenesis of many diseases. It results when free radical formation is greatly increased or protective antioxidant mechanisms are compromised. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the antioxidant response to obesity-related stress in healthy children. METHODS A hundred and six health...

The benefits of play-based occupational therapy for hospitalized children with cancer warrant further exploration. Pediatric cancer disease symptoms, complications from treatment, and multiple and prolonged hospitalizations restrict participation in the daily activities of a child’s life. However, occupational therapy services in pediatric oncology are limited because of the disease nature, tre...

BACKGROUND Participation in daily activities during childhood is an important aspect for health and social development. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to investigate the participation of children with cerebral palsy aged 8 to 14 years, and their normal peers. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 30 children with cerebral palsy, and 30 normal children were selected via the...