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... basic scientists, clinicians and behavioral and social scientists n Generate data from multiple scientific disciplines to understand the persistent effects of chemicals and other exposures on ... established by NIEHS and EPA, with a research emphasis on children s asthma and other respiratory diseases, as well as ways to reduce exposure to pesticides for children in agricultural settings 2004: ... effects of environmental contaminants To better understand the effects of these exposures, the NIEHS/EPA Children s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (Children s Centers)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... assessed once every five years on a rotation system where roughly 20% of the active courses shall be assessed every year Department Chairs are responsible for ensuring that the courses are assessed ... course connects to college programs, and how the course relates to other courses at the college and in the UH system This assessment will also focus on: Currency: How current is the course s content? ... Academic Affairs is ultimately responsible to ensure that credit courses are assessed on a regular basis I Courses Special attention will be paid to changes in how course descriptions are written,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... and review relevant literature Part describes the study locations and the survey and part presents survey results and the multinomial logistic regression model In part we discuss implications ... selection and travel Parents' school selection decisions influence child travel mode and in this section we examine reasons parents choose their child 's schools and explore differences by race, sex, and ... associations with environment and parental concerns'' Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise 38 787 ^ 793 Kingham S, Ussher S, 2007,``An assessment of the benefits of the walking school bus in...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... answering yes to the question were then assessed using the Chronic Pain Grade (CPG) questionnaire [16], a seven-item instrument assessing severity in three dimensions: persistence, intensity and disability ... Depression The 7-item depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D) [19] was employed to evaluate depressive symptoms of the respondents The HADS-D is scored between and ... (SF12-PCS) score and a mental component score (SF12-MCS) The SF12 has been translated into Chinese and validated in Hong Kong [22] Statistical Analysis Descriptive statistics assessed pain characteristics,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Questionnaire (SDQ) [16,17] The prosocial scale consists of items assessing positive social actions (e.g., I am kind to younger children) The peer problems scale consists of items assessing the degree ... experiences difficulties with their peers (e.g., I am usually on my own I generally play alone or keep to myself) The conduct problems scale consists of items assessing anger, aggression and dishonesty ... research assistant who addressed questions/difficulties Physical Activity Children s social functioning was measured using the prosocial, peer problems and conduct problems sub- c Social functioning...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... information systems and health infrastructure ICTs can help enormously to disseminate and share information on results and resources for women s and children s health ICTs provide new possibilities ... organizations, the business community, health-care workers and professionals, and academic and research institutions around the world In spite of these positive developments, success will be achieved only ... national AIDS commissions In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on AIDS mobilized countries in an unprecedented way to address the epidemic Part of the UNGASS response...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... noncommunicable diseases linked to environmental conditions and disasters Despite the progress achieved so far, addressing major preventable determinants and diseases, such as obesity, respiratory and cardiovascular ... of environment and health issues and build the capacity of all professionals, with particular emphasis on health professionals and professional caretakers of children D Knowledge and tools for ... environment and health issues We will develop and implement initiatives on risk perception, assessment, management and communication  Such as the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... that business strategy and operations can have on children s lives As increasingly more companies assert strong and public positions on corporate social responsibility, it is essential that children ... focuses on the Children s Rights and Business Principles, and on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its meaning for business The section also refers to the Guiding Principles on Business ... families, schools, communities and workplaces • Children are not consulted Companies should ensure that stakeholder consultation processes consider the rights of the child Companies should assess...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... structures with the items of social and physical development skills and then answering with the 19 suggestions of possible design solution for the design of these equipments These suggestions ... describes as "media saturation." II Another factor is that parents force children to attend various classes after school, Many kids go to after-school classes to attend lessons in nonacademic subjects ... play alongside the television set as well as computers, and the pressure of parents to send their kids to after-school classes besides the prohibition against playing in the dangerous outdoors have...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... corresponding range of susceptibility Childhood asthma is heterogeneous, with some children having far more serious disease than others, and some evidence suggests that responsiveness to environmental ... thoroughly and systematically analysed, looking for logical links between studies that point to causal associations between exposures and health effects Such synthesis furnishes the most solid policy ... must be based on the best available evidence and research This book presents an assessment of research data gathered over the last decade, and provides conclusions concerning the risks posed by...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... under stress conditions: overview of the effect on speech production and on system performance,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP ... four subsets weighted by the prior probabilities of the four classes is given in row “Mont.” ∅ Mont Test set Mont M Mont N Mont E Mont A ∅ Mont Test set Mont M Mont N Mont E Mont A ∅ Mont Acoustic ... quality of the NMDS result is given in Figure 1; it is assessed using Kruskal s stress function S and the squared correlation RSQ [26] The figure is translated such that Neutral is located in the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... fixed-effects model was used When necessary, reported measures were converted to standard units, and standard errors were converted to standard deviations Results were considered statistically significant ... The clinical assessment of shoe and in-shoe interventions in children should consider the numerous effects of shoes on their gait Perhaps a standardised shod condition could be utilised during the ... effects of shoes on the gait of children Of the two previously published reviews of the effects of children s shoes, one was published in 1991 [11] and the other focused only on children s sports shoes...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... the major guardians of these kids should rigorously set specific periods of exposure to televisions and computers Basically, an active role is essential as parents must create and innovate alternative ... effects on minds and bodies of these children On one hand, unlimited amount of information is in their easy reach, on another, they are missing out on healthier and more social activities Television ... technological devices, primarily, television, computers and video games This intense exposure to gadgets of all kinds can have far-reaching effects on minds and bodies of these children On one hand, unlimited...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2016, 09:58

... valsalva maneuver on pain, first, we searched Medline, ISI, and other databases This intervention was noninvasive and previous studies reported that baroreceptor activation induces nociception ... procedure and informed consent was obtained separately before surgery Participants and measurements Ninety consecutive adults’ patients, either sex with ASA physical status I and II, scheduled ... intrathoracic pressure increases This increase results in compression of the vessels within the chest and in turn results in baroreceptor activation Activation of either the cardiopulmonary baroreceptor...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... exercises The lessons (approximately 1.5 h each) took place at school Two experimenters responsible for the measurements and an assistant gave the lessons each week The contents of the lessons are ... waves of taste lessons (first, a Finnish application of Classes du goût program and second, activating lessons on main food categories) and another half performing baseline and followup measurements ... of descriptive words increased significantly Earlier studies have shown that verbalization of sensory experiences is supported by taste lessons in 12year-old school children (Jonsson, Ekström,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:07

... discussions on the immediate, underlying causes of health implications and ways to address these causes CONCLUSIONS DALYs lost varied considerably among the durations as well as for the types ... Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 2, ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/19/Rev 2, New York UN (1998) Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses, Revision 1, ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/67/REV.1, ... 2009) Septic tanks and pour-flush latrines connected to a sewer line were considered as sanitary latrines for the purpose of this study Unsanitary types consisted of cesspools, pit latrines and storage...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... States EHIS outcomes Objectives of the CEHAPE indicator-based assessment and the questions it answers PART I ASSESSMENT OF THE SITUATION AND PROGRESS TOWARDS THE RPGS CHAPTER CLEAN WATER – CONDITION ... INDICATOR-BASED ASSESSMENT AND THE QUESTIONS IT ANSWERS Children s health and the environment in Europe: a baseline assessment is based on policy-relevant indicators and information available in the system ... adults and schoolchildren in the villages of the Talas, Issyk-kul and Naryn regions A baseline assessment of 1289 schoolchildren from the three regions of Talas, Issyk-kul and Naryn in 2003 showed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... align and accelerate action on MDGs and Its key constituencies are: governments; multilateral organizations; donors and foundations; NGOs; health-care professional associations; academic, research ... institutions, the United Nations and other multilateral organizations, non-governmental and civil society organizations, the business community, health workers and their professional associations, and ... business community committed an estimated US$1 billion to expand access to free or subsidized drugs, treatment and screening This addresses the needs of women and children for interventions such...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... occurred Dose-Response Assessment The second step in risk assessment, assessing the dose-response relationship, is of particular importance for children Unfortunately, there is a distinct lack ... chemical, assumptions and extrapolations must be made, and different investigators and scientists may make different assumptions The four steps in risk assessment are as follows: Hazard identification: ... approaches to risk assessment The fact that risk assessments not usually consider children s unique risks is a major flaw in the U .S regulatory system for pesticides in the diet This flaw could...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20