| | | | | Motorists are being asked to take a detour through the suburbs.
운전자들은 교외지역을 통해 우회하도록 권해 드립니다. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 불완전함 속의 행복 | | Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. | | | | | | | | | | According to a recent study conducted by Cornell University, test scores and school grades are greatly affected by one's family income. The research group studied the health records and income of 195 men living under the poverty line over an extended period of time to see if poverty affected their working memory, also known as the short-term memory. Tests and school grades generally only test students on their long-term memory.
"The longer a person is exposed to poverty at childhood, the worse the achievement levels become," researchers said. "Furthermore, the proportion of early childhood spent in poverty is also significantly related to a person's working memory."
What is most interesting, however, is that when researchers took a look at the men's health records, they found that it was not necessarily the fact of being poor that was hampering their working memory, but instead blood pressure, obesity, and stress hormone issues. Growing up in poverty meant that the men had less access to quality nutrition and health care. And scientists say that chronic stress alters brain chemistry and can cause damage to the hippocampus, which is vital to the memory.
In another study, researcher James Flynn from the University of Ulster looked at the average IQ of 11-year old British schoolchildren over a period of seventeen years. The study showed a large jump in IQ among children between the years 1938 and 1947, which Flynn attributes to improved nutrition among the poor in the United Kingdom.
"The 20th Century has seen both massive height gains and massive IQ gains," Flynn said. "From 1942 to the present, British school children aged 5 to 15 have gained 14 IQ points. However, since 1979, gains have declined with age. It was noticed that children between the ages of 12 to 13 and 14 to 15 saw small gains in IQ turn into small losses. | | | | | | | | | 미, 중미.카리브 마약밀매 퇴치지원 | | | | | | | | 학부모들이 고민하지 않도록 하기 위해, 스승의 날을 겨울 방학 기간 중으로 옮기는 방안을 검토하고 있다. | | | | | | | | | | |
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