Consumption Frequency of Fruit Juices and Sweetened Beverages: Differences Related to Age, Gender and the Prevalence of Overweight Among Polish Adolescents by Wuenstel Justyna W., Wądołowska Lidia, Słowińska Małgorzata A., Niedźwiedzka Ewa, Kowalkowska Joanna, Antoniak Lidia

“…Among boys, only the frequency of fruit juice consumption decreased with age. …”
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Relationship Between Weight Status and Health-Related Quality of Life in School-age Children in China by Mandana Zanganeh, Peymané Adab, Bai Li, Miranda Pallan, Wei J. Liu, Lin Rong, Wei Liu, James Martin, Kar K. Cheng, Emma Frew

“…The risk of obesity is greater in children from higher socioeconomic backgrounds and higher in boys compared with girls. **Objective:** The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between weight status and HRQOL in children between 6 and 7 years old in this unique country context. …”
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Sex Hormones in Allergic Conjunctivitis: Altered Levels of Circulating Androgens and Estrogens in Children and Adolescents with Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis by Marta Sacchetti, Alessandro Lambiase, Costanzo Moretti, Flavio Mantelli, Stefano Bonini

“…Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic allergic disease mainly affecting boys in prepubertal age and usually recovering after puberty. …”
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Risk Factors of Obesity among Children Under 5 Years in Hilla City by Awatif Abd AL-khalik, Ali Hussein Al-Hafidh, Suha Attia Kadhum

“…Fifty percent of children with obesity each for boys and girls. The results found that girl children are likely at higher risk for obesity at 2.125 times than boys. …”
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Association between maternal haemoglobin status during pregnancy and children’s mental and psychomotor development at 18 months of age: Evidence from rural Bangladesh by Sayedur Rahman, Lina Wallberg, Anisur Rahman, Eva-Charlotte Ekström, Maria Kippler, Jena D Hamadani, Syed Moshfiqur Rahman

“…Conclusion Higher maternal Hb concentrations at 14 weeks of gestation were associated with higher PDI among 18-month-old boys in Bangladesh.…”
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Rééduquer des « mauvaises filles » et des « mauvais garçons » : deux foyers pour mineurs délinquants en Guadeloupe, Saint-Jean Bosco et Notre-Dame de Grâce (1935-1970)... by Claire Palmiste

“…This paper purports to examine the stakes of setting up a rehabilitation scheme for delinquent girls and boys in Guadeloupe by two denominational institutions in a context of changes in Guadeloupe. …”
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Living, Caring, Learning - Building family relationships in haemophilia care by Shoemark Robyn

“…She describes her experience of providing care for a family with two boys with severe haemophilia A and inhibitors, and how listening to and working closely with the parents enabled good outcomes. …”
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Rediscovering Fritz Redl by Jack Phelan

“…The complexity of our work and the use of life spaces to create healing came alive in the descriptions of his work at Pioneer House, a group home for boys.…”

La violencia de un olvido by Olga Grau Duhart

“…One of them refers to girls and boys sexual desire and associated disturbances; the other one to a political oblivion connected with human rights violations during Pinochet military dictatorship which has not been granted any justice. …”
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Web 2.0 et la politique au féminin en Roumanie postcommuniste by Daniela Roventa-Frumusani, Alexandra Irimescu

“…Starting from the hypothesis of a legitimacy deficit for women in the post-communist Romanian public space, the authors seek to determine whether, since the fall of communism (1990) and with the emergence of new campaign tools (social networks), women politicians opt to “do politics differently” or, on the contrary, adopt the same approaches and strategies as their male counterparts (play the “boys’ game”). Their objective is to analyze the visual dimension of the construction/deconstruction of the ethos of women in politics through the public Facebook profiles of women candidates in the 2016 local and parliamentary elections.…”
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Physical Activity Behavior in Swiss Secondary School Students: A Segmented Analysis by Marion Gasser, Andrea-Maria Nadenbousch, Fabienne Egger, Mario Kamer, Stefan Valkanover, Mirko Schmidt

“…Overall, 49% of adolescents (63% boys; 37% girls) meet the school-based PA recommendation of 30 minutes of MVPA during school time. …”
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Emotional Verbalization and Identification of Facial Expressions in Teenagers’ Communication by I. S. Ivanova

“…The outcomes of experimental study demonstrate that the accuracy of facial emotional expressions of teenage boys and girls changes at different rates. The prospects of defining the age norms for identification and verbalization of emotions are analyzed.…”
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Book review: Albert E. Trieschman, James K. Whittaker and Larry K. Brendtro Piscataway, (1962). The Other 23 Hours. New Jersey, Aldine Transaction, 240pp. ISBN 0202260860 by Kirsty Hamilton

“…The authors described this home as a residential centre for 'severely disturbed, acting-out boys' (p.xii).…”

École, savoirs et valeurs : une tentative d’éclaircissement by Alain Beitone, Estelle Hemdane

“…Educating citizens, teaching them to have an ecologically aware behavior, promoting equality between girls and boys, etc…, are as many missions as the school system is charged to take on. …”
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Introduction: Louisa May Alcott, Love Lessons by Martha Saxton

“…She explored its expression between heterosexuals and same sex couples, boys and girls, parents and children. She considered the disguises lovers might adopt as well as their blind spots. …”
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Politiques de l’amour et du sexe dans la Chine de la « révolution sexuelle » by Jean-Baptiste Pettier

“…This article questions the relevance of the use of the expression “sexual revolution” when talking about the transformations of the sexual practices of the young Chinese girls and boys who grew up with the economic reforms initiated in the 1980s. …”
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Association between allergen-specific immunoglobulin E sensitization, allergic rhinitis symptoms, and quality of life in school-aged children by Daisuke Watanabe, Sanae Otawa, Megumi Kushima, Hideki Yui, Ryoji Shinohara, Zentaro Yamagata, Daiju Sakurai, Kunio Miyake, The Yamanashi Adjunct Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group

“…A total of 656 children (53.4%) were identified as sensitized to house dust mite-specific IgE, comprising 362 (60.6%) boys and 294 (46.5%) girls. For Japanese cedar pollen (JCP)-specific IgE, 820 (68.6%) children were sensitized, with 430 (73.1%) boys and 390 (64.1%) girls. …”
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Breakfast Intake and Factors Associated with Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Lebanese High School Adolescents by Rana Mounayar, Rana Jreij, Jennifer Hachem, Frida Abboud, Maya Tueni

“…A cross-sectional survey was carried out on randomly selected students (268 boys and 332 girls), aged between 15 and 18 years old, from private and public schools in Beirut and Mount Lebanon. …”
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Susceptibility of different mice species to chemical induction of colorectal cancer by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine by Nourhan M. Abdelmaksoud, Ahmed I. Abulsoud, Tamer M. Abdelghany, Shereen Saeid Elshaer, Ahmed Samaha, Nadine W. Maurice, Sherine Maher Rizk, Mahmoud A. Senousy

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Investigation of Clinical Characteristics and Etiological Factors in Children with Molar Incisor Hypomineralization by Maria Rita Giuca, Maria Cappè, Elisabetta Carli, Lisa Lardani, Marco Pasini

“…Methods. 120 children, selected from the university dental clinic, were included: 60 children (25 boys and 35 girls; average age: 9.8 ± 1.8 years) with MIH formed the test group and 60 children (27 boys and 33 girls; average age: 10.1 ± 2 years) without MIH constituted the control group. …”
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