News tagged with behavioural difficulties

Working mothers and the effects on children

Parents struggling to combine paid work with bringing up their children now have some positive news thanks to a new study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on maternal employment and child socio-emotional ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A good night's sleep even more elusive for anxious children

Managing routine sleep problems in children can be a testing time for parents as well as being highly stressful for the child. Add a child with anxiety to the mix and a good night’s sleep for everyone can be elusive if not ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

ADHD labelling of kids can mask other problems: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- Labelling children with learning and behavioural difficulties can be detrimental to the children in question as well as their teachers, research by a QUT graduate has found.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2




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Saola still a mystery 20 years after its spectacular debut

Two decades after the sensational discovery of a new ungulate species called the saola, this rare animal remains as mysterious and elusive as ever. WWF, the Saola Working Group (SWG) of the IUCN Species Survival ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Girls face 'sexting' threat from peers

A report commissioned by the NSPCC, conducted in collaboration with King’s College London, reveals the level that ‘sexting’ has reached among teenagers, with schoolgirls facing increasing pressure ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Genetic similarity promotes cooperation

In a dog-eat-dog world of ruthless competition and 'survival of the fittest,' new research from the University of Leicester reveals that individuals are genetically programmed to work together and cooperate ...

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Making a game of research

Tablet computers are being adopted by behavioural scientists at Norway's University of Stavanger (UiS) as a more efficient way of obtaining information from young children.

Technology / Software

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Ordinary' black hole discovered 12 million light years away

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists have discovered an ‘ordinary’ black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 31 | with audio podcast

92 percent of families with adopted children are satisfied with their decision

Two separate surveys six years apart have been used to analyse the level of satisfaction with adoptions in Andalucía. The study shows that 77.7% of families are happier after the process and variables ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A lost world? How zooarchaeology can inform biodiversity conservation

A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Diseases and sex: The cocktail maintaining immune gene variation

The great variation of a specific form of immune genes makes organ transplants so complicated. On the other hand, we need such a great variability in order to resist infectious diseases. This is why it also ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laboratory avalanches reveal behaviour of ice flows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Avalanches created in controlled laboratory environments are helping us to understand the potentially lethal processes that these natural disasters unleash.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Catching camels in the Gobi

In Oct. 2011 Professor Chris Walzer and Dr. Gabrielle Stalder, veterinary scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology at the Veterinary Science University, Vienna, successfully attached GPS satellite collars ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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