the gender of child and parent as factors in family dynamics

... with the instruction for the children to complete them alone and independently from other family members In case of severe visual impairment of the children and/ or parents, assistance was offered ... questionnaire, and checked the completeness of it We determined whether the children had completed the KIDSCREEN questionnaire themselves, by simply asking the children individually and their parents Measures ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:65 Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor affecting the retina and is the most common intraocular malignancy in children In the Netherlands,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... with the instruction for the children to complete them alone and independently from other family members In case of severe visual impairment of the children and/ or parents, assistance was offered ... questionnaire, and checked the completeness of it We determined whether the children had completed the KIDSCREEN questionnaire themselves, by simply asking the children individually and their parents Measures ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:65 Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor affecting the retina and is the most common intraocular malignancy in children In the Netherlands,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... for the development of anal cancer is well known, no data about the influence of smoking during combined radiotherapy on the outcome after therapy exist as of now The exact role of smoking in the ... radiochemotherapy was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age of the patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/30 the combination of one of these risk factors with smoking [7-11] Combined radiochemotherapy is the gold-standard in treatment of anal cancer since Nigro et al reported their data [12]...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... study has examined or compared the determinants of research knowledge utilization for practitioners and administrators in child and family services The development of a better understanding of the ... understanding of the role these factors play in the translation of research knowledge In addition, the observations in this study were collected from practitioners and administrators working in the ... basic understanding of the factors at play in the equation, precise knowledge of the processes involved has yet to be developed This lack of knowledge is even more pronounced in child and family welfare,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... schizophrenia The mean score on interest in schizophrenia and mood disorders in children and adolescents was 6.01 ± 2.2, measuring slightly higher than that of interest in PDD Gaining experience in the child ... PDD and schizophrenia, about interest in child and adolescent cases with schizophrenia or mood disorders, about interest in working with children, and about their understanding of normal childhood ... following this and since then, the number of scientific papers on PDD has been increasing For these reasons, PDD is a disorder that has recently attracted the most intense interest in biological...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... before them They were pushing the waters out of the basin of the sea.‖ (The new Englander, 1921) The perception of air in terms of a sea makes an invisible thing (air) observable The repetition of ... difference in the way the writers integrate their attitudes in the descriptions of people and things Analysing the findings in this culturally and stylistically oriented fashion was really among the ... part of everyday linguistic use They are often creative and sometimes absurd if out of context, as a result of individual reasoning and experiencing This kind of metaphor dominates the art of literature,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... Water and fire as metaphors in American and Vietnamese short stories of the 20th century 12 2.1 The popularity of water and fire as metaphors 12 2.2 The formation of metaphors ... UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES PHÍ THỊ THU TRANG A STUDY OF WATER AND FIRE AS METAPHORS IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY ... TABLE OF CONTENTS iv PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for the study Scope of the study Objectives of the study Methods of the study...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:20

... analyzed, synthesized and computed and finally documented The findings and conclusions of the paper are based on the facts and figures produced via these methods Design of the study This thesis paper ... four main objectives:  To explore the use and formation of the metaphors of water and fire in the linguistic perspective, basing on the data from American and Vietnamese short stories of the 20th ... with the popularity, the creation and the functions of water and fire metaphors Part III is the conclusion of the study in which a summary of the findings, pedagocial implications for teaching and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:47

... loss of water from the soil, Fdrain can be expressed as the product of the steady-state concentration of metal in soil water, and the water drainage flux: Fdrain = [M]SW · wF (3.5) The key remaining ... The distribution of the mass input to the different compartments should be designed on the basis of the objective of the screening 3.5.5 PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH The UWM approach presented in the ... used in the evaluation 3.3.3 SOIL MODEL The soil model comprises a single mixed box, containing solids and solution, as shown on the left-hand side of Figure 3.1 The soil receives the metal of interest...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:45

... during the second half of the move, with concomitant high jerk at the beginning, middle and end of the perturbation [13,14] While standing barefoot and blindfolded on the SLIPFALLS a subject was ... respectively For platform movements of mm and mm, the time interval was s and or the 16 mm platform movement, the time interval was s During the interval “One” or “Two”, the platform moved a fixed displacement ... value, and the overall NCV score X was set to the minimum of the normalized velocities Subjects were classified as having peripheral neuropathy when X < = 0.98 and as being neurologically intact...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... article as: Arunchai and Plubtieng: On the Krasnoselskii-type fixed point theorems for the sum of continuous and asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces Journal of Inequalities and ... of C with Î U, F(U)bounded and F : U → C a condensing mapping Then, either F has a fixed point in U or there is a point u Î ∂U and l Î (0,1) with u = lF(u); here U and ∂U denote the closure of ... forms of the Krasnoselskii theorem on fixed points for the sum A + B of a weakly-strongly continuous mapping and an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping in Banach spaces These results encompass...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... containing e and a 1-factor avoiding e, then G has a k-factor containing e and a k-factor avoiding e for every k ∈ {1, 2, , r − 1} Proof Let F and Fe be two 1 -factors of G containing e and ... respectively Hence the statement is valid in this case Case 2: Assume that r = 2m is even In view of Theorem 1, G has all regular even factors containing e or avoiding e, respectively Since G has a 1-factor ... odd factors between and r − 1, and these are regular odd factors of G avoiding e If F2k+1 is a (2k + 1)-factor of G avoiding e, then G − E(F2k+1 ) is a (2m − (2k + 1))factor containing e, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... appeared to increase Degradation of caspase-3 and PARP was specific as indicated by the fact that the cell internal control, β-actin, remained intact To determine the effect of DCPIP and DCPIP ... assisted in the design planning of all experiments PP participated in the design of XTT, CAM and Western experiments, assisted in data analysis and interpretation and in writing and revising the manuscript ... CAM assay and GEM assay experiments, assisted in data analysis and interpretation and in writing and revising the manuscript SP and JG carried out the Western blot experiments CH and SA assisted...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... reviewing the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence in hazard evaluation and of persistence measures as applied to metals, including the potential to use bioavailability measures in ... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Adams, William J., 1946Assessing the hazard of metals and inorganic ... careers in these areas The publications provide information for keeping abreast of recent developments in familiar subject areas and for rapid introduction to principles and approaches in new subject...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... membranes of the epithelial cells by endocytosis and further metabolic processing The intestine is also the site of small organic molecule uptake Metals may bind to these molecules and inadvertently ... example, temperate coastal regions In the context of hazard assessment and the current state of the science of biodynamic modeling, the use of KD is an important © 2007 by the Society of Environmental ... media including water, food, and sediment) has been assessed by determining the ratio of chemical concentrations in organisms to that in water in natural ecosystems; this ratio is expressed as the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... providing input to the UWM, and (3) providing an interim solution to the use of aquatic toxicity data in metal categorization, independent of and in advance of the UWM 5.2 DATA ACCEPTABILITY The ... species, and (2) the toxicity of these species, rather than (3) the toxicity of the original metal substance There is no doubt that characteristics such as solubility and transformation (and their kinetics), ... 1996) 5.5.2 BIOTIC LIGAND MODEL (BLM) The BLM has been gaining increased interest in the scientific and regulatory community for predicting and evaluating metal bioavailability and toxicity due to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... bioavailability theory that can be integrated into models such as the BLM to assist in hazard ranking of metals in soils and reduce the uncertainty produced by abiotic factors affecting metal exposure Finally, ... days following mixing of the test substance into the soil and incubation, with the same total transformation time as (2) A list of standard tests is provided in Fairbrother et al (2002) and Spurgeon ... changed, depending on the soil type and according to the end point chosen, with the overall ranking being Cd > Cu > Zn > Ni > Cr > Pb The variability in ranking casts doubt on the validity of a threshold-ranking...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... successful in the experimental setting of acute lung injury and needs to be verified in clinical indications other than lung transplantation Competing interests None declared References There are case ... substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery of the graft The combination of iNO and surfactant proved to be successful in experimental severe reperfusion injury [15], strengthening Della ... extracorporeal circulation was instituted when right heart failure occurred after implantation of the left lung and clamping of the contralateral pulmonary artery, despite iNO and prostaglandin E1 treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... class resistance' (FCR) was defined as no drug in that class that is fully active reflecting the loss of an entire class of drugs The incidence was defined as the proportion of the number of ... bias the results were the time elapsed since a patient started therapy and the genotyping, and the fact that for some patients the date of therapy initiation was not exactly known Therefore, in ... parallels the more potent NRTIs being administrated and possibly the protective role of the other drugs in the regimen (e.g., boosted protease inhibitors) The rising prescriptions of NNRTIs during the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 06:20

... results proved the change of brain resistance and the improvement of brain compliance (by the increasing of velocity) The PI decreased collerately with the change of intracranial pressure The result ... caused the raise in plasma osmolality as well as serum sodium, the difference was significant before and after infusion The brain hemodynamics was also improved, shown by the increase of cerebral ... were increased significantly at T120 (p

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 12:44