News tagged with nations children
School-in-a-bag reduces drop-out rates
A more flexible approach to teaching methods and better community support could reduce school drop-out in high HIV-prevalence areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Lack of free play among children is causing harm, say experts
Hovering helicopter parents who restrict their kids' unstructured play may actually harm, rather than help, children according to the latest issue of the American Journal of Play, a scholarly journal which has gathered a dist ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Surprising results in a new study on childbearing and education
In almost every country, women with more education have fewer children. But does education reduce childbearing, or does childbearing get in the way of education, or both? New research by Joel E. Cohen and colleagues in Norway ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Afghanistan worst place, Norway best to be a mom: study
Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said.
May 03, 2011 |
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Kids safest in rear-facing car seats until age 2
Children should ride in rear-facing car seats longer, until they are 2 years old instead of 1, according to updated advice from a medical group and a federal agency.
Mar 21, 2011 |
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Boys will infect boys, swine flu study shows
Boys predominantly pass on flu to other boys and girls to girls, according to a new study of how swine flu spread in a primary school during the 2009 pandemic, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Ac ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 31, 2011 |
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Brain scans detect autism's signature
An autism study by Yale School of Medicine researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has identified a pattern of brain activity that may characterize the genetic vulnerability to developing autism spectrum ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 15, 2010 |
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Children and adults see the world differently
Unlike adults, children are able to keep information from their senses separate and may therefore perceive the visual world differently, according to research published today.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Children living in areas where homicides committed have lower reading, verbal test scores
Children living in areas where homicides are committed have lower reading and verbal test scores, a study by New York University Sociology Professor Patrick Sharkey shows. The research, which appears in the latest issue of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Kids understand the relationship between humans and other animals
Parents, educators and developmental psychologists have long been interested in how children understand the relationship between human and non-human animals. For decades, the consensus was that as children begin reasoning ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 17, 2010 |
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Most Americans live surprisingly close to their mothers: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most Americans live within 25 miles of their mothers, according to a report issued by the University of Michigan Retirement Research Center.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 05, 2010 |
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New DNA technique leads to a breakthrough in child cancer research
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Karolinska Institutet have used novel technology to reveal the different genetic patterns of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood ...
Feb 22, 2010 |
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Researchers investigate prenatal smoking link with antisocial behavior in children
A Cardiff University research project has for the first time studied whether smoking during pregnancy can directly make children more likely to behave anti-socially.
Feb 02, 2009 |
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