This figure indicates considerable sexual activity during adolescence.

If it has a subject, the subject is adolescence.

My adolescence was spent during the German occupation of France.

The objective of the CBSS programme is to promote convergent planning and action to achieve family based and community defined development goals for children in early childhood, pre adolescence and adolescence.

So people often ask, Well, is adolescence a kind of recent phenomenon?

One of the brain regions that changes most dramatically during adolescence is called prefrontal cortex.

If you know of photographers, the joke is it's the finest form of delayed adolescence ever invented.

All four of my grandparents, for example, left school in their early adolescence. They had no choice.

This system takes a long time to develop, slowly throughout the course of childhood and into early adolescence.

Childhood and adolescence are the critical periods in terms of health and for promotion and prevention of possible diseases.

On 4th and 5th 1 2001 they organized a Seminar for the Sensitization of Girls regarding the Gender Dimension during Adolescence.

Would the discovery of an older cultural civilization out there inspire us to find ways to survive our increasingly uncertain technological adolescence?

And I was on the cusp of, sort of, adolescence, so I was starting to take biscuits from the tin without asking.

Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence it had to do with not quite poverty but close.

So MRI studies looking at the development of this region have shown that it really undergoes dramatic development during the period of adolescence.

They realize that this is actually a developmental stage of life with its own significance as different from midlife as adolescence is from childhood.

And actually if we even look at eight to 11 year olds, getting into early adolescence, they still don't have quite an adult like brain region.

And actually, the answer is probably not. There are lots of descriptions of adolescence in history that sound very similar to the descriptions we use today.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

Examples of measures to safeguard the health of women and children are the minimization of chemical exposures before conception and through gestation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.

To generalize and deepen interest in the phases of childhood and adolescence and to provide full care for them so as to raise worthy generations for society.

After child care, there followed hordes of private tutors, test coaches, and university admissions consultants. And, beyond childhood and adolescence, the need for specialized personal support only grew.

A Spanish national, he had spent his adolescence in Western Sahara, then a province of Spain, at a time when the Frente POLISARIO was beginning its struggle against Spanish interests.

Manning, who was born Bradley Edward but has spoken openly about identifying as a woman as early as adolescence, was convicted in 2013 on 20 charges, including six Espionage Act violations, computer fraud and theft.

So adolescence is defined as the period of life that starts with the biological, hormonal, physical changes of puberty and ends at the age at which an individual attains a stable, independent role in society.

Today I don't want to talk about beautiful babies, I want to talk about the awkward adolescence of design those sort of dorky teenage years where you're trying to figure out how the world works.

Ms. Gnacadja said that she would appreciate more information regarding the Childhood and Adolescence Code, and wished to know whether it had in fact been introduced into law, as indicated in the fifth periodic report.

Implementing child rights in early childhood is thus an effective way to help prevent personal, social and educational difficulties during middle childhood and adolescence (see general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development).

They have to go through their primary one, that's already awkward, and then they go through their second self's adolescence, and that's even more awkward because there's an actual history of what they've gone through online.

Developmentally, these two conditions develop in exactly the same way. Between late childhood and mid adolescence, there's an improvement, in other words a reduction of errors, in both of these trials, in both of these conditions.

So if you look at gray matter volume, for example, gray matter volume across age from age four to 22 years increases during childhood, which is what you can see on this graph. It peaks in early adolescence.

They take more risks than children or adults, and they are particularly prone to taking risks when they're with their friends. There's an important drive to become independent from one's parents and to impress one's friends in adolescence.

As the adolescents are less vulnerable to illnesses as compared to children and the elderly, the specific problems of this age group have been neglected for so long, even though in adolescence some lifestyles do condition their health situation.

And so, what we can see is that over the course of childhood and even into adolescence, both the cognitive system, our mind's ability to think about other minds, and the brain system that supports it are continuing, slowly, to develop.

It had also enacted legislation on adoption and on domestic violence. Women also benefited from the Childhood and Adolescence Code adopted in 2001, a new Agrarian Act and legislation modifying the pensions and retirement regime of the Social Provident Administration (IPS).

The speaker sought clarification about monitoring of programmes under the UNDAF, and said that joint programming would be particularly relevant in the area of safe motherhood with WHO and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and in the area of adolescence with UNFPA.

If current estimates are correct, around 10 of users (and one in six who start in adolescence) may become dependent on marijuana that is, find it difficult to control or discontinue their use. A minority of these problem users will seek professional help to quit.

Member of the panel on Minors and crime , held at the Regional Meeting on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure and fourth Regional Meeting on Childhood and Adolescence, organized by the Law School of the National University of Patagonia, Trelew, province of Chubut, 14 November 1997.

You prune away the weaker branches so that the remaining, important branches, can grow stronger, and this process, which effectively fine tunes brain tissue according to the species specific environment, is happening in prefrontal cortex and in other brain regions during the period of human adolescence.

It has broken new ground in politics and culture, but its impact on social and economic life has been minimal. So, as Al Jazeera moves into media adolescence, it must begin to think about how it can become a social pioneer in the Arab and Islamic world.

In some cases, the introduction of innovative technologies or new forms of media, or even the increasing importance of higher education, means that young people feel that their parents cannot relate to their social context because it is entirely different from what they experienced during their own adolescence.

Speaker at the International Conference on the Human Rights Status of Childhood and Adolescence , in the framework of the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on children, the eighth International General Assembly of Defence for Children International (DCI) held at Mar del Plata, Argentina, 17 19 May 2002.

So there's a famous quote by Shakespeare from The Winter's Tale where he describes adolescence as follows I would there were no age between ten and three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

The arrows indicate peak gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex. You can see that that peak happens a couple of years later in boys relative to girls, and that's probably because boys go through puberty a couple of years later than girls on average, and then during adolescence, there's a significant decline in gray matter volume in prefrontal cortex.

(n) Through its cooperation with partners, UNICEF supports effective and essential actions at each phase of the life cycle of the child, including in pregnancy, early childhood, preschool and school going years and adolescence, and supports parents, teachers, service providers, policy makers and other duty bearers in their roles in providing age relevant support, care and protection for children