BACKGROUND Environmental factors play a very important role in the child development process, especially in a situation like that of Iraq. Thirteen years of economic sanctions followed by the 2003 war and 8 years of unstable security have affected the daily life of Iraqi families and children. The objective of this study was to assess the associations between living environment domains and chil...

BACKGROUND Long-term ingestion of large amounts of fluoride can lead to potentially severe skeletal problems and neurological consequences. The study was conducted to assess and compare intelligence quotient of children living in high and low fluoride areas in Kutch, Gujarat, India. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 100 school children aged 8 to 10 years, living...

The present study investigated Emotional Intelligence among male and female. The research sample was comprised of one hundred and sixty subjects (N = 160) who were categorized in two groups.. They were eighty males (n = 80) and eighty females (n = 80) from N.W.F.P. Snowball sampling technique was used to select subjects. Personal information sheet was used to obtain the demographic information....

this study aimed at examining the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and learning english language vocabulary. the male (n= 119) and female (n= 98) participants who were randomly selected from high schools in zanjan province were asked to complete a persian version of an emotional intelligence (ei) questionnaire and answer a vocabulary achievement test. the ei questionnaire consis...

OBJECTIVE Cognitive impairments had been reported in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, what caused the impairments needed to be demonstrated, chemotherapy-related or the disease itself. The primary aim of this exploratory investigation was to determine if there were changes in brain function of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia before chemotherapy. METHODS In this study, we adv...

This paper presents some detailed discussions regarding the human natural intelligence, along with various types of intelligences. The authors have also given some important factors on which the intelligence depends. Therefore the authors strongly feel that this information given in this paper may be useful to the researchers who have been working in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Keyword...

The underlying neural determinants of general intelligence have been studied intensively, and seem to derive from the anatomical and functional characteristics of a frontoparietal network. Little is known, however, about the underlying neural correlates of domain-specific cognitive abilities, the other factors hypothesized to explain individual performance on intelligence tests. Previous prelim...