Recent research has explored the relationships between family and cultural issues, claiming attention on the need to consider and evaluate cultural values and beliefs as useful factors to promote positive family adjustment and parenting outcomes (Cardoso and Thompson, 2010; Taylor et al., 2012). This paper explored self-perception of parental role, family maladjustment and cultural beliefs in a...

Abstract We suppose that a Lévy process is observed at discrete time points. Starting from an asymptotically minimax family of estimators for the continuous part Khinchine characteristics, i.e., covariance, we derive data-driven parameter choice frequency estimating covariance. investigate Lepskiĭ-type stopping rule adaptive procedure. Consequently, use balancing principle best possible paramet...

How can we effectively manage competing obligations from work and family without becoming overwhelmed? This question inspires the current study by examining control strategies that may facilitate better work-life balance, with a specific focus on the role of lowered aspirations and positive reappraisals, attitudes that underlie adaptive coping behaviors. Data from the Midlife in the United Stat...

Nowhere are the ethical issues in genomic research more complex than in pediatrics. Balancing the sometime conflicting autonomy of the parent and the child, and the best interest of the family and the child, brings up many challenging issues. Addressing this balance, especially in the context of the child's developing maturity and comprehension, requires deep analysis and discussion. Issues dis...

We study the scheduling problem of a self-replicating factory. We show that by maintaining a sufficiently large inventory of intermediate metabolites and catalysts required for self-replication, optimal replication times can be achieved by a family of random scheduling algorithms that are biochemically feasible, for which catalysts never idle if they can perform de-novo bio-synthesis. Optimally...

Proper alignment of duplicated chromosomes at the metaphase plate involves both motor-driven chromosome movement and the functional and physical end-on connection (K-fiber formation) between the kinetochore and the plus-end of microtubules. The B56 family of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunits (B56-PP2A), through their interaction with the mitotic checkpoint protein BUBR1, are req...

Designing the self-balancing two-wheeled mobile robots and reducing undesired vibrations are of great importance. For this purpose, the majority of researches are focused on application of relatively complex control approaches without improving the robot structure. Therefore, in this paper we introduce a new two-wheeled mobile robot which, despite its relative simple structure, fulfills the req...