Some parents will not fail to remark that the news release announcing the study, published this month in Infant Behavior and Development, described the mittens as giving infants "a developmental jump-start".
"Women's gymnastics, you hear a lot that maybe they have problems," said Alan Johnson, the executive director for Project X, the developmental United States ski jumping team.
I also don't minimize the difficulty of being a stepparent, especially of a child whose dishonesty has jumped its developmental boundaries.
It's not credible to argue that Britain today needs a large steel industry to jump-start a developmental economic catch-up.
At two years old, Janni's mind made the jump from what the developmental psychologist Jean Piaget called "concrete reasoning" to "abstract reasoning", something that typically happens at a much older age.
Detlev Arendt and Joachim Wittbrodt, developmental biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, jumped into the fray after Arendt noticed some vertebrate-like photoreceptor cells in the brains of ragworms, a marine species that hasn't changed much for 500 million years.
For example, individual errors were close to 40%, and the authors concluded that squat jump is recommended in large-scale developmental prospective studies but that cycling and jumping protocols are not interchangeable when measuring peak power [ 194].
Descriptions (norms) of expected levels of knee control, proprioceptive acuity and eccentric strength relative to landing from a jump, at different ages and physical developmental stages, would assist clinicians and coaches to identify players with inappropriate knee performance comparable to their age or developmental stage.
Her hourly wage jumped to $9 when she started at the Gallipolis Developmental Center, a state home for mentally retarded people, up from $5.25 at a private nursing home.
