Background: Basketball is characterized as a high-intensity, intermittent sport that places considerable demands on the cardiorespiratory, neuromuscular, and mechanical systems. These physiological requirements are modulated by contextual variables a...
Background/Objectives: Metaverse technologies are increasingly considered for pediatric speech–language therapy, yet adoption has outpaced evidence on what caregivers and speech–language pathologists (SLPs)—the groups whose decision...
Background/Objectives: This study examines the associations between household socioeconomic status (SES), child nutrition, and developmental status among children aged 24–59 months in the Mont Ngafula health zone in Kinshasa. The primary resear...
13 April 2021
This study investigated developmental stability, or tracking, in the development of technical skills in youth male basketball players and retrospectively profiled stable and unstable tracking patterns over time. A total of 97 basketball players were...
Background: Joint attention is a fundamental skill supporting early social communication and cognitive development. However, its development in children with severe visual impairment and its relationship with early play behaviors remain insufficientl...
This study investigates the dynamic impact of population aging on consumption preferences in China, a critical area given consumption’s role in global economic growth and the country’s accelerating demographic shifts. Utilizing pooled pan...
The aim of this study was a comparative statistical analysis of three categories of maxillary odontogenic cysts, evaluating frequency in relation to localization (mandibular or maxillary region), age and gender of patients. The study was a retrospect...
7 July 2016
The second year of life is a time of rapid developmental changes. This paper aims to describe the pattern of unintentional injuries to one-year old children in three-month age bands to better understand the risks associated with developmental stages...
Relative age effects (RAEs) are commonly associated with advantages for older athletes. However, a variety of benefits attributed to ‘advantage reversals’ have been observed among relatively younger professional athletes. Considering psyc...
Background: Preterm birth is associated with increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders. Although standardized tools such as the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development—Third Edition (BSID-III) are widely used for early development...
Background: The prevalence of pediatric obesity in Spain is among the highest in Europe. Although national surveillance reports a 4.5% decrease in excess weight, these primarily cross-sectional data may underrepresent the metabolic complexity observe...
12 May 2020
Background: Motivation in athletes is a state that fluctuates due to multiple factors that can, in turn, negatively or positively influence sports performance. Objectives: The aim of this study was twofold, being, on the one hand, to analyze the moti...
This study aimed to identify when and how eye movements change across the human lifespan to benchmark developmental biomarkers. The sample size comprised 45,696 participants, ranging in age from 6 to 80 years old (M = 30.39; SD = 17.46). Participants...
This study explores how age influences the relationship between physical performance (PP) and technical–tactical parameters (TPs) in youth soccer, analyzing 80 matches across four age groups: U15, U17, U19, and NB1 (adults). Team-level data wer...
This study aimed to examine age- and maturity-related differences in anthropometric characteristics, body composition, functional movement, and field-based physical performance among U14–U19 male youth soccer players. Seventy academy players co...
Background: Patellar tendon complaints and other tendon-related disorders are common in jumping sports; however, the relationship between recorded tendon problems, anthropometric characteristics, and neuromuscular performance in youth athletes remain...
Background and Objectives: Artistic swimming demands high levels of strength, joint mobility, and body control; however, the physical profiles of elite athletes in this sport remain insufficiently characterized. This study aimed to characterize and c...
Background/Objectives: Although numerous studies have examined associations between screen time and early language development, less is known about how screen exposure interacts with developmental stage, digital content quality, and parental mediatio...
Background: There are few studies examining the physical developmental phenotypes of nutritional deficiency diseases (NDDs) among Chinese children aged 1–7 years by anthropometrics and clarifying the specific NDD categories that caused growth f...
Background: This study examines nationwide prevalence of US childhood behavioral, mental, and developmental problems in the 6–11 age group category between 2019 and 2022, and several key metrics related to caregiver social determinants of healt...
Play behavior is a prominent aspect of juvenile behavior for many animals, yet early development, especially play with objects, has received little attention. Our previous study on object play introduced our general methods, focusing on litter differ...
We examined the seasonal changes in biophysical, anatomical, and optical traits of young leaves, formed throughout the vegetative season due to sylleptic growth, and mature leaves formed by proleptic growth in spring. Leaf developmental categories co...
Background: Adolescence is a critical period of physical, psychological, and social development, during which athletes are particularly vulnerable to stress and injuries. Competitive anxiety has been identified as a psychological factor that may incr...
We tested the hypothesis that vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is associated with higher developmental disorder probability in 604 children with perinatal HIV infection (CPHIV, n = 199), HIV exposed and uninfected (CHEU, n = 196), and HIV unexposed uninfec...
The shift from syntagmatic to paradigmatic associations is a developmental process occurring from approximately the ages of six to nine years and plays an important role in language development. Syntagmatic relationships refer to words that co-occur...
17 July 2022
The assessment of challenging behavior exhibited by people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is essential for the planning of prevention and intervention programs. This review aimed to identify and analyze the standardized instruments...
Cultured meat, a sustainable alternative to conventional meat, addresses ethical and environmental challenges in livestock production. Its production relies on bovine muscle stem cells from adult muscle or fetal tissue, whose proliferation and differ...
In professional soccer clubs in the UK, nutrition support is often polarised towards senior players or those in the senior academy age groups seeking first team selection/involvement. Accordingly, there is an increased reliance on parents and caregiv...
Parental adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are linked to negative outcomes in children, including emotional and behavioral problems, developmental delays, and higher risk for psychopathology. Most research focuses on school-aged children or commun...
Background/Objectives: Breastfeeding has been positively associated with development of various developmental and cognitive outcomes. Although not fully understood, psychosocial, environmental, nutrients (docosahexaenoic acid) etc., have been propose...
Urban and regional development have not stopped engaging, troubling, and dividing the international scientific community and national and regional policy-making bodies. The wide range of consequences brought on by the current multifaceted downturn at...
25 June 2020
There is evidence that preterm infants of migrant mothers are at a higher risk of adverse perinatal outcomes than those of native-born mothers, and that human milk feeding is beneficial to infants’ neurodevelopment. Using the United Nations Hum...
5 June 2019
This longitudinal study among Registered Nurses has four purposes: (1) to investigate whether emotional, quantitative and physical demands, and family-work conflict have a negative impact on nurses’ perceived effort; (2) to investigate whether...
Background/Objectives: Mixed dentition is critical for identifying developing malocclusions that may benefit from preventive or interceptive orthodontic management. This study aimed to assess IPION-defined preventive/interceptive orthodontic treatmen...
Newborn mass screening improves outcomes for inborn errors of metabolism (IEM); nonetheless, home-based dietary therapy imposes a substantial parental burden. In this study, we explored differences in parents’ health coping behaviors, assessed...
This study examined whether family functioning and impulsivity differentiate offense categories or represent shared vulnerability factors among justice-involved adolescents. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in two juvenile correctional faciliti...
Background and Objectives: The relationship between mental health and sports injuries has become increasingly important in youth soccer, due to developmental changes in this population, the high demands of training, and the competitive pressures of s...
At a developmental age, adequate physical activity is fundamental to overall health and well-being and preventing obesity. Moreover, establishing active behavior can help children and adolescents meet their growth and neurodevelopmental goals. Nutrit...
Background: The aim of the research is to explore the relationship between psychological factors and nutritional status in adolescence. The issue of adolescent nutrition is related to several psychological problems, as well as to developmental change...
This study aimed to compare the anthropometric and performance characteristics of U16 and U18 male basketball players to better understand post-peak height velocity (PHV) developmental differences. A total of 31 athletes from the local international...
Background/Objectives: Physical activity behaviours are established early in life and tend to track across developmental stages. However, the role of continuity of sport participation across multiple developmental periods in shaping current physical...
Background/Objectives: The aging of workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities is an emerging reality attributed to the rise in life expectancy and improved labor market access. In this study, “workers” is used as an inclusi...
Background/Objectives: Early identification and intervention in speech and language therapy (SLT) are essential for children’s academic, social, and emotional development. In Cyprus, barriers such as long waiting lists, financial constraints, a...
Phonological developmental speech sound disorders (pDSSD) in childhood are often associated with later difficulties in literacy acquisition. The present study is a follow-up of the randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effectiveness of PhonoSens,...
Platelet function is developmentally regulated. Healthy neonates do not spontaneously bleed, but their platelets are hypo-reactive to several agonists. The mechanisms underlying immature platelet function in neonates are incompletely understood. This...
19 November 2020
Performance in basketball is multifactorial. One of the modifying factors is the “Relative Age Effect—RAE”. However, its impact depends on the sample characteristics and sport context. The purpose of this study was to examine the in...
Background/Objectives: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is a major cause of congenital morbidity and mortality, but evidence from public pediatric cardiology services in Brazil remains limited. This study aimed to characterize the clinical and epidemio...
Lower limb explosive strength has been widely used to evaluate physical fitness and general health in children. A plethora of studies have scoped the practicality of the standing broad jump (SBJ), though without accounting for body dimensions, which...
In an age of network organization and the digital revolution, under conditions of intense international competition alongside a multifaceted economic downturn, a new form of economy is developing, shaped by the learning society and knowledge-based ec...
Internal state terms (ISTs) include words describing emotions, thoughts, volitions, obligations, desires, and perceptions. This scoping review aimed to map and synthesize evidence regarding the production of ISTs in individuals with Autism Spectrum D...
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