Sentences with phrase «by an adolescent girl»

«Outreach increases completion of HPV vaccination series by adolescent girls.»

In her performance / installation, Choi substitutes chopped - off daeng» gi braids (a traditional Korean hairstyle worn by adolescent girls) for cabbage, and makes her own version of Kimchi.

Not exact matches

The only thing I feel it is comparable to is first talking to a girl you «like» during your adolescent years — that perfect blend of anxiety shaped by the possibility of enduring both agony and ecstasy.

In a widely quoted study by a British hospital, researchers provided an extra glass of cow's milk to adolescent girls» diets, comparing their growth to those who drank an average of just over one half cup per day.

This programme initiated by the Ghana Health Service will be run in phases with the first phase targeting about 360,000 in - school adolescent girls and close to 600,000 out of schoolgirls in four regions.

She stated that though the best solution to Anaemia in adolescent girls, according to experts, is to give them nutrient - rich food with additional meat, liver, chicken, egg or fish, it is also important to supplement that by providing them with iron folate supplements routinely for immediate health and developmental benefits.

At 11 a.m., First Lady Michelle Obama and actress and advocate Charlize Theron participate in a «global conversation» on the power of educating adolescent girls, hosted by Glamour magazine, Apollo Theater, Manhattan.

After playing a violent, sexist game, these male players reported lower levels of sympathy and compassion (compared to those who played games without a sexist component) when shown a photo illustration depicting an adolescent girl who had been physically abused by an adolescent boy.

Lead author Anna Gassman - Pines found that when 1 percent of a state's working population lost jobs, suicide - related behaviors increased by 2 to 3 percentage points among girls and black adolescents in the following year.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

Education offered by The Integrative Women's Health Institute focuses on functional nutrition, health coaching skills development, and lifestyle medicine strategies for adolescent girls and women who struggle with chronic health challenges.

But though she's hardly able to dominate the project, director Martha Coolidge does manage to insert some of the sweetly eccentric characterization that distinguished her Valley Girl: one of the heroes, played by Gabe Jarret, is actually believable and sympathetic as a socially insecure adolescent, and a few of the minor figures are brought to life with deft, simple strokes.

Williams as a child, as an adolescent, and as a college student (played by Henry Hopper, son of Dennis) offer a glimpse into the girls and events that helped shape his poetry.

THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL By Amy Taubin Marielle Heller gives American cinema the fearless feminist take on adolescent lust it's been craving

The first trailer for the film arrived online today, featuring Poehler and Fey at their silliest making awkward double entendres and exaggerated» hey girl» faces as adult sisters who decide to relive their adolescent years by throwing one last rager at their parents» house.

An obsessive friendship between two teenage girls unfolds with equal amounts of tenderness and terror in «Breathe,» a modest but acutely observed and affecting adolescent portrait that suggests a chaste «Blue Is a Warmest Color» by way of «Single White Female.»

Seattle director Megan Griffiths (SIFF prizewinner for Eden in 2012) returns with a study of an adolescent girl who plots an unorthodox solution to the long absences of her military father and the wavering fidelity of her mother (played by the great Melanie Lynskey, who'll be in town as the recipient of a festival tribute this year).

John Tucker Must Die centers on three ex-girlfriends (Ashanti, Sophia Bush and Arielle Kebbel) of the titular high school basketball stud and serial cheater (Desperate Housewives» Jesse Metcalfe) who collaborate to turn the tables on their former beau by getting him to fall for the new girl in town (Brittany Snow) in order to watch him get his heart broken, so sure, it tapped into, in savvy fashion, a certain vein of female adolescent vengeance.

Taki (voiced by Ryunosuke Kamiki), an adolescent boy living in Tokyo, and Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi), a teenage girl in a small mountain village presided over by her monstrous father, end up in each other's bodies one day after the appearance of a comet.

An adolescent girl left to care for her younger brother after their parents» death is convinced by some unscrupulous acquaintances to seduce and help rob a blind, aging B - movie star.

Anyone who's been a teenager will see that Joe Toy (Nick Robertson) is being driven mad by his widowed father, Frank (Nick Offerman, «Parks & Recreation»), who has apparently forgotten how excruciating it might be for an adolescent boy to have his father tell the girl he loves (Kelly, played by Erin Moriarty) that he can't talk now, because he's grounded and has to go to bed at 7:30.

Annie Silverstein and Andrea Arnold both earned attention at the Cannes Film Festival for these coming - of - age stories about adolescent girls growing up in tough economic circumstances and learning to confront the sexual power wielded by men.

by Walter Chaw Angry businessman Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) tunes in and drops out when, after chasing a raccoon into the unused attic of his garage, he decides to live there for a few months, spying on his wife Diana (Jennifer Garner) and their twin «budding adolescent» girls (as E.L. Doctorow, author of the story upon which this is based, calls them).

2.2 by 2030 end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving by 2025 the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under five years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women, and older persons

Until recently, the movement advocating public single - sex education consisted mainly of people such as Ransome and DeBar — girls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David Sagirls» advocates steeped in books like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David SaGirls and Failing at Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls, by researchers Myra and David SaGirls, by researchers Myra and David Sadker.

Sex education being impossible for the adolescent boys of Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, we had parochial high school girls brought in by bus.

Moved by Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other Ophelias to do so as well.

By Shiroyagi A adolescent odd - couple story featuring the ultimate airheaded girl.

However, progress is still significantly constrained by discriminatory gender norms and the related attitudes and practices which restrict girls» horizons, restrain their ambition and, if unfettered, allow exploitation and abuse.Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls» lives across very different contgirls» horizons, restrain their ambition and, if unfettered, allow exploitation and abuse.Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls» lives across very differentAdolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls» lives across very different contGirls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls» lives across very differentadolescent girls» lives across very different contgirls» lives across very different contexts.

With an eye toward projected demographic trends such as these, the group exhibition The Future of America at the Hudgens Center for the Arts through April 28, brings together work by seven lens - based artists documenting various communities and subcultures among American teenagers and children: black cowboys and cowgirls, boys wearing fatigues and armed with paint guns, adolescent girls in their bedrooms.

The 59 3/8 - by - 32 1/2 - inch oil on canvas depicts a naked adolescent girl stretching while seated on a bed.

Whether it is in the potency of teenage girls captured by Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra, the female body as a site for ideology pictured by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, or Dutch artist Hellen van Meene «s depiction of a bubble gum - blowing adolescent recalling the paintings of Vermeer, these complex and aesthetically compelling works tell a vital story of women, subjectivity and art.

The primary subject of Kurland's pictures, however, are the adolescent girls who inhabit these places, both familiar and uncanny, captured by the artist's camera.

Sheridan also captures the thoughtful states of mind of his subjects (an adolescent girl in each one) in paintings known as The Whale Watcher and Young Girl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the begirl in each one) in paintings known as The Whale Watcher and Young Girl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the beGirl by the Seashore, both of which take place on the beach.

Based on part of the Adolescent Study Program at Columbia University, this article contains a description of the dramatic increase in eating and depressive disorders experienced by significant numbers of girls as they pass through puberty.

Research by Simmons and Blyth (1987) and others has shown that girls have poor body image around the time of puberty, but, fortunately, for most girls, body image actually improves across the adolescent decade.

Our results indicated that mothers» dating behaviors directly influenced the sexual behaviors of adolescent boys, and indirectly influenced adolescent girls» sexuality by affecting their sexual attitudes.

Wim Meeus and several colleagues report that parental influence on adolescent offending is strongest when an adolescent has no intimate partners; parental support did not influence delinquency for youth who consistently had a romantic partner over the course of the six - year study.88 In another recent study of serious adolescent offenders, girls who self - reported delinquent behavior were more likely to be strongly encouraged in that behavior by their current romantic partner.89 Interestingly, the association between partner encouragement and self - reported offending was strongest among youth reporting warm relationships with their opposite - sex parent.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Some observers have argued that female offenders can, in theory, be either adolescent - limited or life - course - persistent and that the relative scarcity of early - onset aggression in females indicates that they are generally less likely to follow the latter pathway.56 Others, however, have argued that the relative prevalence of adolescent - onset aggression in girls (compared with childhood - onset) indicates that persistent delinquency simply manifests at a later age in girls than it does in boys.57 In Persephanie Silverthorn and Paul Frick's model, girls and boys are influenced by similar risk factors during childhood, but the onset of delinquent behavior in girls is delayed by the more stringent social controls imposed on them before adolescence.

She is currently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an intervention to reduce dating violence and sexual risk behaviors among adolescent girls with prior dating violence exposure.

MEMPHIS, TN — Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) is calling for better screening of adolescent girls for sexually transmitted infections as a result of a study released this week by a prestigious medical journal.

This is where the pressure begins for girls and by early adolescence (from 10 - 11) the unique brain changes that are a normal part of adolescent development can create havoc with how girls see themselves.

Fact:» [T] he mere presence of a father in one's life, here operationalized by adolescents» own identification of someone who fulfilled a father role, was not linked to girls» well - being.

Among ADHD girls, childhood - onset (< 12 years) CD was predicted by paternal antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), while adolescent - onset CD (⩾ 12 years) was predicted by family conflict.

NoVo Foundation supports initiatives that focus on ending violence against girls and women and promoting gender equity worldwide, empowering adolescent girls in the developing world, and advancing social and emotional learning in the U.S. Established in 2006, NoVo Foundation is led by Jennifer and Peter Buffett.

The goal of the therapy sessions was to improve the girls» behavior problems by improving family interactions to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors for adolescent drug abuse and other behavioral problems.

The current study builds on this research by examining the psychosocial correlates of pubertal timing longitudinally among a diverse, primarily ethnic minority sample of adolescent girls living in an urban environment.

Despite indications that adolescents recognize each other's physical maturation, little is known about how a girl's reputation among peers might be influenced by signs of pubertal development.

The effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing physical activity among adolescent girls might be enhanced by engaging support from friends, family, and caring adults; addressing real and perceived time constraints; and helping adolescent girls feel more confident about themselves and their ability to engage in physical activity.