The Dutch Twin Register: Growth data on Weight and Height

As part of a longitudinal developmental study of newborn and young Dutch twins, data on weight and height are collected. Birth weight and height are available for 3275 pairs; data on growth, for 1390 pairs

Is er iets mis met de aandacht van het schoolkind?

Incidenteel klagen leerkrachten bij het lager onderwijs en voortgezet onderwijs over slechte concentratie van kinderen. Dit artikel bevat een verslag van een systematische inventarisatie van deze klacht. Het artikel begint met een theoretische beschouwing van verschillende vormen van aandacht. Vervolgens wordt ingegaan op de relevantie hiervan voor aandacht in de klas. Daarna worden de resultaten van een landelijke enquête onder ervaren leerkrachten bij het gewoon lager onderwijs beschreven. Gevraagd was naar veranderingen bij het schoolkind ten aanzien van met aandacht samenhangend gedrag. De antwoorden wijzen op toegenomen concentratie- en impulsiviteitsproblemen. Mogelijke oorzaken worden genoemd. Ten slotte worden suggesties gedaan voor een meer objectieve bepaling van aandacht en concentratievermogen van het schoolkind, en voor onderzoek naar preventie en behandeling van de problemen

Characteristics of Attorneys Representing Children in Child Welfare Cases

Every day in state and local courts throughout the United States, judges are called upon to decide who should have the responsibility for the immediate and long-term care of neglected and abused children. Federal recognition of the right to independent advocacy for children subject to these proceedings originates with the 1974 Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). As a condition of receiving federal funds for child abuse prevention services through CAPTA, states must provide for the appointment of an appropriately trained guardian ad litem (GAL) for every child whose case results in a judicial proceeding. A guardian ad litem (GAL) may be an attorney, a lay advocate (such as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)), or both. CAPTA charges child representatives to obtain first-hand a clear understanding of the situation and needs of the child; and to make recommendations to the court concerning the best interests of the child. This CAPTA requirement reflects the view that children have interests that should be represented in these proceedings that may differ from the interests of their parents and the state. Even though the state has brought the action to protect the child, the voice and needs of the child may get lost in the fray of arguments and allegations between the state\u27s lawyers, parents, and other adults that are parties to the case. Furthermore, the child needs an advocate if the state fails to deliver on necessary services and actions due to fiscal constraints and/or organizational failures

Interictal and postictal cognitive changes in migraine

The question whether symptom-free migraine patients show cognitive impairments compared to matched control subjects is addressed, and also whether migraine patients show transient cognitive impairments induced by an attack. The Neuropsychological Evaluation System (NES2) was administered once in an interictal period and twice within 30 h after different migraine attacks. Since cognitive impairments could be related to attack duration or severity, cognitive performance was compared during a postictal period after sumatriptan use and during a postictal period after habitual nonvasoactive medication use. Twenty migraineurs without aura, 10 migraineurs with aura, and 30 matched headache-free controls participated in the study. During a headache-free period, migraineurs without aura responded as quickly as controls, while migraineurs with aura were slower than controls during all tasks specifically requiring selective attention. These effects were not aggravated by a preceding migraine attack, irrespective of medication use and attack duration

Children\u27s Justice: How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System

From 2009 to 2016 the University of Michigan Law School served as the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System (QIC-ChildRep). This seven-year, multimillion dollar project, directed by Clinical Professor Don Duquette, conducted a national needs assessment that identified a substantial consensus on the role and duties of the child’s lawyer. The needs assessment led to the QIC-ChildRep Best Practice Model, an update and expansion of the 1996 ABA Standards for Lawyers Representing Children in Child Abuse and Neglect Cases. Released in 2016 as a300-page softcover book, CHILDREN\u27S JUSTICE is the final report of the QIC-ChildRep project, guiding the reader through 13 chapters and 3 appendices: Chapter 1: Challenge: Improve Child Representation in America Chapter 2: Evolution of Child Representation Chapter 3: National Needs Assessment Chapter 4: Emerging Consensus and the QIC Best Practice Model Chapter 5: Six Core Skills and the QIC Best Practice Training Chapter 6: What the Lawyers Say About Implementing the Six Core Skills Chapter 7: Sample Selection and Research Methods Chapter 8: Profile of Lawyers Representing Children Chapter 9: Lawyer Activities and Their Impact Chapter 10: Findings of the Evaluation of the QIC-ChildRep Best Practices Model Training for Attorneys Chapter 11: Reflections on QIC Empirical Findings Chapter 12: The Flint MDT Study: A Description and Evaluation of a Multidisciplinary Team Representing Children in Child Welfare Cases Chapter 13: How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in America’s Child Welfare System Appendix A: QIC Best Practice Model of Child Representation in the Child Welfare System Appendix B: 1996 American Bar Association Standards of Practice for Lawyers Who Represent Children in Abuse and Neglect Cases Appendix C: 2011 ABA Model Act Governing Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect and Dependency Proceedings This product was created by the National Quality Improvement Center on the Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System at the University of Michigan Law School, Cooperative Agreement No. 90CO1047, funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.https://repository.law.umich.edu/books/1109/thumbnail.jp

Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman

This book was completed for Jan Baker\u27s artists\u27 book class.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookmark_letters/1018/thumbnail.jp

Diagrams: Really Bleary Theory

This book was completed for Jan Baker\u27s artists\u27 book class.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_bookmark_letters/1017/thumbnail.jp

Does having a twin-brother make for a bigger brain?

Objective: Brain volume of boys is larger than that of girls by ∼10%. Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been suggested in the masculinization of the brain. For example, in litter-bearing mammals intrauterine position increases prenatal testosterone exposure through adjacent male fetuses, resulting in masculinization of brain morphology. Design: The influence of intrauterine presence of a male co-twin on masculinization of human brain volume was studied in 9-year old twins. Methods: Magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, current testosterone, and estradiol levels were acquired from four groups of dizygotic (DZ) twins: boys from same-sex twin-pairs (SSM), boys from opposite-sex twin-pairs (OSM), girls from opposite-sex twin-pairs (OSF), and girls from same-sex twin-pairs (SSF; n=119 individuals). Data on total brain, cerebellum, gray and white matter volumes were examined. Results: Irrespective of their own sex, children with a male co-twin as compared to children with a female co-twin had larger total brain (+2.5%) and cerebellum (+5.5%) volumes. SSM, purportedly exposed to the highest prenatal testosterone levels, were found to have the largest volumes, followed by OSM, OSF and SSF children. Birth weight partly explained the effect on brain volumes. Current testosterone and estradiol levels did not account for the volumetric brain differences. However, the effects observed in children did not replicate in adult twins. Conclusions: Our study indicates that sharing the uterus with a DZ twin brother increases total brain volume in 9-year olds. The effect may be transient and limited to a critical period in childhood. © 2009 European Society of Endocrinology