Peer rejection has gained much attention in recent years, due to repeated findings that negative peer experiences in childhood predict adjustment difficulties in adolescence and adulthood. The dominant conceptualization within developmental psychology has overwhelmingly focused on deficits within rejected children that contribute to their difficulties and has neglected contextual factors in the...

Received 11/26/2008; revised 12/10/2008; accepted 12/16/2008. For correspondence and reprints contact: Yee-Hsuan Chiou, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. 386 Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)7-3428203, Fax: (886)7-3468207, E-mail: [email protected] Background: Direct radionuclide cystography (DRC) has the advantage of high sensitivit...

Trust is often cited as a precondition for e-commerce transactions and has been an area of interest for researchers; an understanding of how culture impacts on an individual’s perception of trust will allow website managers to better segment their markets and develop appropriate online stimuli to target specific cultures. This empirical study examines if cultural differences play a part in trus...

Grid computing systems are distributed systems that involve coordinate and involvement of heterogeneous resources with various characteristics where user jobs can be executed on either local or remote computer. These heterogeneous computing resources are used to run highly complex programs that require very high processing power and huge volume of input data. Recently the biggest issue in distr...

Over the last years a number of bioinformatic software programs have been developed in the area of molecular biology. The application of these bioinformatic tools to the wealth of existing transcriptomic and proteomic data can be used to predict the structure and hierarchy of signalling pathways and gene networks. In genetically tractable model organisms such as Arabidopsis thaliana, these hyph...