The loss of a loved one can affect family dynamics by changing the family system and creating the need for family members to reorganize. Good family functioning, which is characterized by open communication, expression of feelings and thoughts and cohesion among family members, facilitates adaptive adjustment to the loss. This study conducted a systematic review of the literature on family dyna...

Irene Jo, M.D., Woori Jang, M.D., Hyojin Chae, M.D., So-Young Kim, M.D., Myungshin Kim, M.D., Yonggoo Kim, M.D., and Kyungja Han, M.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea; Catholic Genetic Laboratory Center, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea; Department of Pediatrics, Y...

This final overarching study in a series documents research and recommendations RAND offered to the Air Force to help strengthen the development of a new office responsible for monitoring and promoting resilience among Air Force Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. Efforts to boost resilience have become an important military response to suicide and other markers of distress and ...

“Students’ engagement in school” is regarded in the literature as a current and valued construct despite the lack of empirical studies on its relationship with specific family variables. The present research aimed to survey studies on the correlation between students’ engagement in school and family contexts, specifically in terms of the following variables: perceived parental support, socioeco...

Literature mining is expected to help not only with automatically sifting through huge biomedical literature and annotation databases, but also with linking bio-chemical entities to appropriate functional hypotheses. However, there has been very limited success in testing literature mining methods due to the lack of large, objectively validated test sets or "gold standards". To improve this sit...

studying real as well as imagery spatiality of family roles and image of them for family members should be put among first steps of any architectural design program that aims to achieve in stabilizing of family pattern of a certain culture. its importance is more obvious for those cultures which want to save family structure as their basis of existence and growth. a literature review of current...