Children's vegetable consumption falls below current recommendations, highlighting the need to identify strategies that can successfully promote intake. The current study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of flavour-flavour learning as one such strategy for increasing vegetable intake in preschool children. Children (N = 29) aged 15 to 56 months were recruited through participating nurseri...

1. Overview of the Japanese Childcare System Government plays a principle role in running of childcare system in Japan. In specific, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) is responsible for regulating new entries into the market by setting a minimum standard in staff-child ratio, space of nursery room per child and capacities etc. Moreover, about 70% daycare centers are licensed ones wh...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between personal experience of the Great East Japan Earthquake and various disease types among nursery school children. DESIGN We conducted a nationwide survey of nursery school children born between 2 April 2006 and 1 April 2007. Nursery school teachers completed questionnaires if they agreed to join the study. Questionnaire items for children consis...

The aim of the study is to attempt present a synthesis process shaping system early education and care for children up age three in Polish lands throughout history (until political transformation 1989). author briefly presents concept home environment, indicates problem taking by nurses nannies, analyzes organization functioning first shelters, nurseries aid campaigns directed at mother child. ...

abstract striped rice stem borer, chilo suppressalis walker (lepidoptera: pyralidae) is one of the important pests in rice fields of mazandaran. therefore, almost the farmers of northern iran apply several pesticides in nurseries for the pest control; while it is causes environmental risks and damages to human. in this research two different items including, 1- study of egg masses density in nu...

INTRODUCTION Systematic reviews have identified the lack of intervention studies with young children to prevent obesity. This feasibility study examines the feasibility and acceptability of adapting the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) intervention in the UK to inform a full-scale trial. METHODS AND ANALYSIS A feasibility cluster randomised controlled ...

There have been few carefully recorded and analysed studies of the resting pulse in healthy children, and knowledge of pulse variation in the early years of life is mainly based on observations made on sick or convalescent subjects. The same is true of blood-pressure readings. An investigation of anthropometric methods, preparatory to a socio-medical study of growth and development in the pre-s...

Measurements of methane (CH(4)) and nitrous oxide (N(2)O) fluxes have been extensively taken following rice seedlings transplanted into paddy fields, while little is known about CH(4) and N(2)O fluxes from rice seedling nurseries. Fluxes of CH(4) and N(2)O were simultaneously measured in rice seedling nurseries under the water regimes of continuous flooding and moist irrigation without waterlog...

forest nurseries in north are the main sources of seedlings production for forest organization and urban green spaces. for more produce and less cost should be done good management of the production operations.study included data from 16 nursery seedling production in the north. in this study land (an area of seedling land) and personnel (workers and employees) as an input and the number of see...