I really can’t quite remember when I first corresponded with Rudi Schmid, Department of Botany, University of California, Berkeley. He is the kind of pen pal who exemplifies the best of the communal world of science facilitated internationally by journal literature and informal correspondence. Some time ago he surprised me with a delightful study comparing postal services at the turn of the cen...

Lauren N. Grant,§ Balazs Pinter,‖ Takashi Kurogi,§ Maria E. Carroll,§ Gang Wu,‡ Brian C. Manor,§ Patrick J. Carroll§ and Daniel J. Mindiola§,* §Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia PA, 19104. ‖Eenheid Algemene Chemie (ALGC), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels (Belgium). ‡Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, K...

Franklin Allen Jun Qian Meijun Qian Nippon Life Professor of Assistant Professor Ph.D. Candidate Finance and Economics Finance Department Finance Department The Wharton School Carroll School of Management Carroll School of Management University of Pennsylvania Boston College Boston College Philadelphia, PA 19104 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 [email protected] qianju@bc....

Background: Care giving for an elderly parent is a universal developmental task, and in all societies is one of the women tasks; its expectations are considered norms known as filial responsibility. The aim of the study is to examine the possibility of connections between the attitudes toward filial responsibility to elderly parents and the attachment style in adulthood and age (generation) amo...

BACKGROUND High levels of parental anxiety are associated with poor treatment outcomes for children with anxiety disorders. Associated parental cognitions and behaviours have been implicated as impediments to successful treatment. We examined the association between parental responsibility beliefs, maternal anxiety and parenting behaviours in the context of childhood anxiety disorders. METHOD...

BACKGROUND In a context of increasing ethnic diversity, culturally competent strategies have been recommended to improve care quality and access to health care for ethnic minorities and migrants; their implementation by health professionals, however, has remained patchy. Most programs of cultural competence assume that health professionals accept that they have a responsibility to adapt to migr...

background: adolescence is a sensitive period of acquiring normal and abnormal habits for all of life. the study investigates determinants of responsibility for health, spiritual health and interpersonal relations and predictive factors based on the theory of planned behavior in high school girl students in tabriz.   methods : in this cross-sectional study, 340 students were selected thorough m...