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Researchers found that young adults proficient in two languages performed better on attention tests and had better concentration than those who spoke only one language, irrespective of whether they had learned that second language during infancy, childhood or their teen years.

In addition, attending the conference had allowed me to meet up with some leading experts in different fields of research, as far as food security is concerned, as well as young researchers and the discussions provoked during the different presentations by leading scientists like Professor Louise Fresco were really interesting.

A second study, conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, found that in children younger than age 3, levels of the stress hormone cortisol rose in the afternoon during full days in day care, but fell as the hours passed when they were cared for at home.

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

During a debate on the future of energy, Cisse was surprised how well informed — and opinionated — young researchers from the United States, Germany, and Japan all seemed to be.

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center examined differences in the number, location, and magnitude of head impacts sustained by young athletes during various youth football practice drills.

During the second assessment, the researchers also had the young participants perform a battery of tasks to test their cognitive flexibility and memory skills.

As Alex Lewis, president of the Council for Postgraduate Students and Junior Researchers in Europe (Eurodoc), pointed out during the meeting, young scientists have an obligation to use their own networks to learn about different career tracks and to seek opportunities.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a potential new approach to fertility preservation for young cancer patients that addresses concerns about beginning cancer treatment immediately and the possibility of reintroducing cancer cells during the fertility preservation process.

The researchers conducted a retrospective study of young children enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid during 2000 to 2006.

Young males of this species learn their breeding songs by listening to adult males during their first year of life, the researchers note.

By using the diverse computational models obtained from the collected data during the experiment, researchers were able to successfully recognize the dog's gender the 85.13 % of the time while the age of the dog (recoded as young, adult and old) was classified without mistakes the 80.25 % of the time.

The researchers say that the apparent similarity between human children and young chimpanzees in the observed male bias in object manipulation, and manipulation during play in particular, may suggest that object play functions as motor skill practice for male - specific behaviours such as dominance displays, which sometimes involve the aimed throwing of objects, rather than purely to develop tool use skills.

Regarding mentorship for young researchers, as former chairman of a final - selection committee for the ESF EURYI awards (ca 1 M EUR each) he was nominated president of an academy formed by the 100 eminent young researchers that have been awarded in total during this program.

A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

During the closing panel discussion on «Ethics in Science», a young researcher from the University of Cambridge, Dr Karen Stroobants, was, by far, the stand - out panel member, eclipsing the otherwise male - dominated panel.

The NAS and Annenberg group identified several ways to change incentives for quality and correction, including rewarding researchers for publishing high - quality work rather than publishing work more often; mentoring young peer - reviewers to increase clarity and quality of editorial responses during the journal publishing process; and using «voluntary withdrawal» and «withdrawal for cause» instead of the blanket «retraction» term, which has negative connotations that can prevent some researchers from taking action when a paper is wrong, but not as a result of fraud or misconduct.

The main researchers, Snijders, Res, Smeets and Van Vliet recruited 44 young men and assigned them to two groups — one received 27.5 grams of protein (casein hydrolysate) every night before sleep during a 12 week period which included regular resistance training, and the second one received placebo while following the same exercise program.

In a study involving rats, researchers discovered that young male rats respond to normal episodes of hypoxia, or brief periods of oxygen deprivation, during sleep by increasing brain activity to take deeper and more frequent breaths.

While it is believed that these particular symbiotic strains have evolved over time as a way of kick - starting the digestive processes of very young humans, their discovery has prompted researchers to further investigate the possible benefits of other forms of probiotic bacteria during early childhood and adolescence.

Researchers Dr Laura Kate Hamilton and Professor Wendy Wills, from the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care at the University of Hertfordshire, studied what 535 young people aged between 13 - 15 years, living in Scotland and studying at seven different schools, ate and drank during the school lunch break.

During the summer of 2002, he said, his friend Neil Young had donated his sailing schooner The Ragland which George and a team of researchers had used to test their hypothesis by actually putting iron into the ocean to see what happened.

The present authors have all been subject to such attacks, whose similarity is notable because the authors» research spans a broad range of topics and disciplines: The first author has investigated the psychological variables underlying the acceptance or rejection of scientific findings; the second author is a paleoclimatologist who has shown that current global temperatures are likely unprecedented during the last 1,000 years or more; the third and fourth authors are public - health researchers who have investigated the attitudes of teenagers and young adults towards smoking and evaluated a range of tobacco control interventions; and the fifth author has established that human memory is not only fallible but subject to very large and systematic distortions.

One particularly interesting study focused on young men's reasons for buying Valentine's Day presents and what these reasons suggest about their relationships» balance of power.1 The researchers spoke with approximately 100 men through a series of focus groups and in - depth interviews, during which the participants were asked about a Valentine's purchase they made for a romantic partner within the last two years.

In general, prosocial behaviors (helping, sharing, caring, politeness) increase during the course of childhood, although the development and prevalence of prosocial behaviors varies across cultures.11 For example, researchers find that prosocial behavior, as observed among peers and in parent - child interaction is more prevalent among young East Asian children than among Western children.

From a Western perspective, researchers have argued that friendship serves different functions for children at different points in development.31 For example, young children's friendships serve to maximize excitement and amusement during play and to aid in the organization of behavior.

Fortunately, conducting randomized trials over the decades, intervention researchers have produced numerous manual - guided, evidence - based treatments (EBTs) for depression, anxiety, and conduct in youth.2 Unfortunately, these treatments have not been incorporated into most everyday clinical practice.3 - 5 A common view is that the complexity and comorbidity of many clinically referred youths, whose problems and treatment needs can shift during treatment, may pose problems for EBT protocols, which are typically designed for single or homogeneous clusters of disorders, developed and tested with recruited youths who differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice, and involve a predetermined sequence of prescribed session contents, limiting their flexibility.3 - 8 Indeed, trials testing these protocols against usual care for young patients in clinical practice have produced mixed findings, with EBTs often failing to outperform usual care.7, 9

Specifically, researchers have found that harsh parenting experienced during adolescence exerts stronger effects on outcomes of delinquency and offending measured in adolescence and young adulthood relative to harsh parenting experienced solely during early childhood [64, 65].