issues across the life span of children of substance abusing parents

... acts The aim of the present study was to compare the incidences of suicide attempt during the entire lifespan by age group in suicide victims and controls, with gender taken into consideration The ... controls A majority of the suicide attempts were made in close connection to admission (often a cause of admission), 89% of the suicide attempts in the suicide group and 84% in the control group ... assumed, but not proven Time of the suicide attempt and thus age at the event could be stated with certainty in 84% of the controls and 89% of the suicide victims, as the attempts were made in connection...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... sources and their watersheds.37 Other key tenets of the Water Code include the user pays principle, the polluter pays Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo principle, the precautionary ... part of the Lualaba watershed The largest contributor to the Congo River is the Kwa-Kasaï, originating from Water Issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Angola’s Lunda Plateau in the south ... average of 10,000 m3/s; almost equivalent to the flow of the main Congo River at its intersection The Oubangui drains the northern plateaus of the Central African Republic (CAR), adding a mean runoff...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... and references therein), suggesting the presence of detectable amounts of PMLA synthetase-specific mRNA The absence of PMLA and polymalatase in other cell types could be the result of cell specific ... related to the depression of PMLA were not observed Level of polymalatase mRNA at different stages in the life cycle The amount of polymalatase transcript at different stages in the life cycle ... identify the synthetase gene, SSH was used with mRNA of the plasmodium as the tester and mRNA of amoebae as the driver The amoebae strain chosen was LU352, which was not identical with plasmodia of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... estimates of the social cost of carbon the valuation of the damages due to emissions of one metric ton of carbon, of $30/ton of CO2 equivalent (CO2 e),20 with low and high estimates of $10/ton ... accounting for the life cycle of coal Epstein et al emissions from coal mines, on the order of 3% of the stack emissions.110 There are also additional GHG emissions from the other uses of coal, approximately ... activity of one agent affects the well-being of another agent outside of any type of market mechanism—these are often not taken into account in decision making and when they are not accounted for, they...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... level of the patients The majority of the participants were aged between 40 to 49 years (32.7% in the experimental group and 40% in the control group), and most of them were married (88.8% in the ... the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this study provide empirical evidence about the benefits of incorporating peer-led education in improving the ... quality of life, although it improves the social function in treated cancer patients [28] Therefore lack of improvement in the physical function and the existence of complication in the patients’...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... of the three segments that make up the thorax or central region of the insect's body Each of these three segments carries a pair of legs In front of the thorax is the head on which the pair of ... bounding the mouth cavity below or behind The proboscis is made up of the pair of jawappendages in front of the labium, the maxillae, as they are called Behind the thorax is situated the abdomen, ... those of the female disappearing at the final moult Reviewing the main features of the life- story of a grasshopper or cockroach, we notice that there is no marked or sudden change of form The newly-...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 10:20

... by SPSS-9 software The mean age of males was 44.7 years (range: 24–65 yrs) and that of females was 42.0 yrs (range: 18–67 yrs) The mean for the absolute latency (cortex to muscle) of the median ... thorough explanations about the process of study the volunteers were deliberately included in the study To obtain the absolute latencies of median and ulnar nerves, the magnetic coil Methods This ... volunteers They had no history of convulsive disorders Their neurologic clinical evaluation was normal and they had no signs of neuromuscular disorders The medical ethics committee of Shahid Beheshti...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... level of the patients The majority of the participants were aged between 40 to 49 years (32.7% in the experimental group and 40% in the control group), and most of them were married (88.8% in the ... the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this study provide empirical evidence about the benefits of incorporating peer-led education in improving the ... quality of life, although it improves the social function in treated cancer patients [28] Therefore lack of improvement in the physical function and the existence of complication in the patients’...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Role of the non-homologous DNA end joining pathway in the early steps of retroviral infection EMBO J 2001, 20:3272-3281 Smith JA, Daniel R: Following the path of the virus: the exploitation of ... fold The HDAC4-1061 mutant that is constitutively present in the nucleus completely reverses the effect of the ATM inhibitor (Fig 7A) To investigate the possibility that the differences in the ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/237 Page of 10 Figure Effect of an integrase inhibitor on the formation of HDAC4 foci in infected cells HeLa cells were infected with the HIV-1-based vector in the presence and absence of the integrase...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... consists of seven chapters Chapter I includes an overview of the study, a statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the significance of the study, the research questions, and definition of ... of the 1920s before the collapse of the economy in 1929 According to Torr, “not since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century or the Roaring Twenties had the acquisition and flaunting of ... REIDER Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Approved by: Chair of Committee, Patricia...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:41

... can affect the health of both a mother and her unborn children With the increasing life span of women and the rapid growth of minority populations in the United States, the number of women at ... the health care delivery system Diabetes and Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective examines the challenges and risks of diabetes in each stage of a woman’s life Of ... type of diabetes results from the body’s resistance to the action of insulin The increased resistance during pregnancy is caused by hormones produced in the placenta (the cord that connects mother...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... Establishment of the Office of Research on Women’s Health within the Office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director • The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 • Establishment of the U.S Public ... profound for particular subgroups of women.16-19 Because of the increasing lifespan of women and the rapid growth of minority populations, the number of women in the United States at high risk for ... to take account of the limits of personal choice may therefore little to change the health status of the group.5-8 This profile of women in the United States presents a review of recent data on...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... known from the literature [4,11,21,25] The psychosocial support of the family should be the part of health care of chronically ill children In light of the apparent limitations of parents assessments ... years It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 92.52% of the sample, and it was the father in 7.48% of the sample No parent in the patient group refused to participate in the study, ... health-related quality of life in Greek children: psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Pediatric Quality of life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales Quality of Life Research 2008,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Comparisons to the mean scores of the other subscales within the present study to those of the previous PedsQL™ school study [3], the mean scores on the social functioning scale of both healthy children ... However, the range of ICCs was between 47 and 61 across the ages These results suggest moderate agreement In particular, there was good agreement for the total score of ages 13–18 Furthermore, the ... Topf R: Validation of the German version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) in childhood cancer patients off treatment and children with epilepsy Quality of Life Research 2004,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... carried out on children of the same age in a different area in London It confirmed the feasibility of the methodology with only minor modifications of the wording of the questionnaire The study had ... health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) data on 18 children, representing 8% of the sample The Child-OIDP questionnaire was the measure of oralhealth related quality of life used in this study ... the lower the prevalence of oral impacts The importance of oral health-related quality of life is particularly relevant for children Their perceptions are important as a number of their social...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... clarify the possible questions of the parents about the instrument Permission to use the translated Persian version of the PedsQLTM 3.0 Diabetes Module was obtained from the developer of the questionnaire ... physical, emotional and social functioning of children and adolescents One of the international tools for assessment of HRQOL of children is the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) This instrument ... months and their parents (95% mothers) referring to tertiary care clinics of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, were enrolled in the study They completed the same Persian version of the PedsQL™...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... loaded to other factors One possible explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the mentioned ... health-related quality of life in Greek children: psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory(TM) 4.0 Generic Core Scales Quality of life research : an ... limitations The unavailability of information on nonrespondents and investigation of only a sample from Tehran, the capital city of Iran, may limit the generalizability of the findings to other parts of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... life span in Drosophila, mice and several other species (called inbreeding depression of life span) However, several other studies, including that of Vermeulen et al ([7] and see references therein) ... Mechanistic explanations often involve the concept of trade-offs, that is, the allocation of energy or other ‘resources’ to functions such as reproduction and behavior, at the expense of somatic maintenance ... from the effects of inbreeding Of course, this result does not rule out an important role for maternal products in modulating life span, but it does show that they are not the direct targets of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20