Background: Griffiths III is a child-friendly and play-oriented direct gold-standard measure of a 0–6-year-old child’s developmental profile. It is a measure that helps practitioners in detecting the weaknesses in children who have an inc...
Background: Children with disabilities and special educational needs show heterogeneous developmental profiles that may be associated with executive functioning and family factors. This study examined functional developmental profiles in primary educ...
The present study examined psychoemotional profiles associated with reading comprehension among third-grade Greek students with typical development, learning disabilities, and developmental language disorder. A person-centered approach was used to id...
Meloidogyne incognita is a common root-knot nematode with a wide range of plant hosts. We aimed to study the metabolites produced at each stage of the nematode life cycle to understand its development. Metabolites of Meloidogyne incognita were extrac...
The dichloromethane extraction was applied to extracted volatile compounds of the six developmental stages of caps and stipes of an Amanita rubescens mushroom and the relative contents were measured with the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The...
This research aims to compare the developmental profiles of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with Down Syndrome (DS) between the ages of 3 and 6 years. The study examines whether these developmental disorders share common dev...
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a rising prevalence disorder. This high-cost/high-burden condition needs evidence-based behavioral treatments that are able to reduce the impact of symptoms on children’s functionin...
This study investigates the impact of high temperature (HT) on the metabolic profile, oxidative-stress parameters, and antioxidant capacity of broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. cymosa) at different developmental stages—microgreens, seedlings, an...
While early embryonic loss affects the conception rate in lactating cows, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we examined whether the developmental morphokinetics and transcriptomic profiles of cleaved embryos are associated with developm...
Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or psychiatric conditions, special education needs and addictions exert substantial demands on families, yet parental psychological functioning remains insufficiently integrated into prevention and family-ba...
Background: Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) encompass an inclusive group of conditions that appear during the developmental period but continue to persist in adulthood, ranging from particular difficulties to a global impairment of social, cognit...
Background/Objectives: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by social communication challenges and repetitive behaviors. Children with ASD often exhibit selective eating habits that may result in nutritional deficiencies and exacerbate dev...
H. longicornis is used as an experimental animal model for the study of three-host ticks due to its special life cycle and easy maintenance in the laboratory and in its reproduction. The life cycle of H. longicornis goes through a tightly regulated l...
Children born very preterm have increased risk of developmental difficulties. We examined the parental perception of developmental profile of children born very preterm at 5 and 8 years by using the parental questionnaire Five-to-Fifteen (FTF) compar...
There is still much debate about the exact nature and frequency of developmental dyscalculia, and about how it should be defined. This article examines several key questions in turn: Is developmental dyscalculia a distinct disorder, or should it be s...
Beyond nutrition, taste quality is a key quality trait driving the global popularity of Agaricus bisporus. This study systematically investigated non-volatile taste-related metabolite dynamics in caps and stipes during fruiting body development using...
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...
Young individuals with sickle cell anaemia (SCA) experience sleep disturbances and often experience daytime tiredness, which in turn may impact on their daytime functioning and academic attainment, but there are few longitudinal data. Methods: Data o...
Down syndrome (DS) is a major genetic cause of intellectual disability. DS pathogenesis has not been fully elucidated, and no specific pharmacological therapy is available. DYRK1A overexpression, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction were de...
The six6 and vgll3 genes play evolutionarily conserved roles in developmental processes and life history traits across species, including teleosts. Notable differences in genotype and allele frequencies of these genes have been observed between farme...
Background: Sex chromosome aneuploidies (SCAs) are a group of disorders characterised by an abnormal number of sex chromosomes. Collective prevalence rate of SCAs is estimated to be around 1 in 400–500 live births; sex chromosome trisomies (e.g...
Auxin participates in various physiological and molecular response-related developmental processes and is a pivotal hormone that regulates phenotypic formation in plants. Auxin response factors (ARFs) are vital transcription factors that mediate down...
Digital transformation increasingly requires employees to combine digital competence with adaptive, collaborative, and learning-related capabilities. This study examines how these resources coexist within employees, whether developmental support is a...
This narrative review describes, in detail, the relationships between Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and most prevalent associated comorbidities in their complexity, heterogeneity and multifactoriality. The research has been conducted on t...
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Children acquire language naturally, but there is variation in language acquisition patterns. Indeed, different internal and external variables play a role in acquiring language. However, there are open research questions about the contribution of di...
(1) Background: Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a common developmental disorder of preschool age. Children often show cognitive deficits in addition to motor problems. Various studies point in particular to problems in visual perception,...
The crustacean Daphnia pulex is one of the best model organisms for studying inducible defense mechanisms due to their inducible morphology in response to the predator Chaoborus larvae. In this study, multiple developmental stages of D. pulex were ex...
MiRNAs, as a kind of key regulators in gene expression, play vital roles in numerous life activities from cellular proliferation and differentiation to development and immunity. However, little is known about the regulatory manner of miRNAs in the de...
Background/Objectives: Developmental disabilities substantially affect the daily lives of children and their families. Although interest in examining the developmental profiles of children with various disabilities has grown, few studies have systema...
Aberration during the development of the central nervous system (CNS) due to environmental factors underlies a variety of adverse developmental outcomes. Paraquat (PQ) is a widely studied neurotoxicant that perturbs the normal structure/function of...
Foliar spray with selenium salts can be used to fortify tomatoes, but the results vary in relation to the Se concentration and the plant developmental stage. The effects of foliar spraying with sodium selenate at concentrations of 0, 1, and 1.5 mg Se...
Ageing is a continuous process that can cause neurodevelopmental changes in the body. Several studies have examined its effects, but few have focused on how time affects biological processes in the early stages of brain development. As studying the c...
Background: Slow-transit constipation (STC) lacks durable and safe prokinetics. Deglycosylated-azithromycin (Deg-AZM), a novel small-molecule transgelin agonist that restores colonic motility in STC, has been approved for clinical trials in 2024. Obj...
Introduction: Epilepsy syndromes show marked clinical and genetic heterogeneity, with numerous functionally diverse genes involved in their etiology. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has facilitated the identification of many monogenic epilepsy syndr...
To calyx persistence in Korla fragrant pear (Pyrus sinkiangensis) significantly impacts fruit marketability, with persistent calyx causing up to 40% reduction in premium-grade fruit yield. Investigating the hormonal mechanisms underlying calyx abscis...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded in students’ learning and everyday lives, making AI literacy an important competence in K–12 education. However, large-scale evidence remains limited on AI literacy differences, associ...
Hepcidin is a multifunctional peptide involved in innate immunity and iron homeostasis, yet its earliest developmental regulation in sturgeons remains poorly understood. Here, we investigated maternal loading and embryonic expression patterns of hepc...
The study of chromatin accessibility across tissues and developmental stages is essential for elucidating the transcriptional regulation of various phenotypes and biological processes. However, the chromatin accessibility profiles of multiple tissues...
Background: Social Communication Disorder (SCD), introduced in the DSM-5, is distinguished from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by the absence of restricted and repetitive behaviors or interests (RRBIs). Aim: To compare the adaptive, sensory, communic...
Pear buds and young leaves from three pear trees (WP, CPI, and CPII) were harvested at different developmental stages from February to May. Tinctures prepared by 14-day maceration with 70% ethanol were analysed for their phenolic profiles by LC-MS an...
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) persist in the environment as complex mixtures and undergo extensive biotransformation, yet the developmental toxicity of PCB metabolites remains poorly defined. We evaluated developmental, neurobehavioral, and molecu...
Background/Objectives: Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved degradation and recycling pathway through which cells deliver cytoplasmic components, including toxic or damaged proteins and organelles, to lysosomes for clearance. In neurons, which ar...
In this study, the fruit quality, anthocyanin content and antioxidant enzyme activities of skin and pulp of southern blueberries (Vaccinium corymbosum) from China y at five developmental stages (green, pink, red, purple and blue) were investigated an...
Stem diameter is an important agronomic trait determining plant architecture, lodging resistance and yield formation, yet its cytological and molecular mechanisms in the major cucurbit crop Luffa remain largely unclear. Herein, two Luffa inbred lines...
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A joint initiative between community and public health stakeholders in a low-income Canadian city was created to describe the developmental profiles of children aged 2–5 years. A two-phase, cross-sectional design was used. Children’s deve...
Background/Objectives: Peripheral biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have shown mixed results in previous studies. In this study, complete blood count-derived immune-inflammatory markers, iron and micronutrient levels, and thyroid function...
Associations and families demand the need to raise awareness of the implications in the cognitive and behavioral development of children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) that affect their learning and school participation. This study aims...
Barley grass possesses high nutritional value and antioxidant properties. In this study, the phytochemical constituents and antioxidant enzyme activities in six cultivars of barley grass were explored at three developmental stages: tillering, jointin...
The establishment of more efficient approaches for developmental neurotoxicity testing (DNT) has been an emerging issue for children’s environmental health. Here we describe a systematic approach for DNT using the neuronal differentiation of mouse em...
Cinnamomum camphora seed kernels are a potentially valuable fatty oil resource; however, their lipid composition and dynamic changes during development remain poorly understood. In this study, morphological and anatomical observations combined with l...
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