the role of education in improving quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure has been emphasized by many studies. this survey was performed to assess the effect of a confined program of home-care on the health status of patients who were receiving hemodialysis. in this research, 37 patients afflicted by chronic renal insufficiency were chosen and put into two categories randomly, 1...

We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral changes among these students some two decades later when they were married their early forties. Using Regression Discontinuity (RD) design time-use data from 2016, we find the had direct impact on women's a...

An important way to resolve games of conflict (snowdrift, hawk-dove, chicken) involves adopting a convention: a correlated equilibrium that avoids any conflict between aggressive strategies. Dynamic networks allow individuals to resolve conflict via their network connections rather than changing their strategy. Exploring how behavioural strategies coevolve with social networks reveals new dynam...

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants’ identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that deficit. It introduces a two-dimensional understanding of ethnic identity, as a...

Seventy 15-month-old infants were studied at home before starting child care, during adaptation (mothers present) and separation (first 9 days without mothers) phases, and 5 months later. Security of infant-mother attachment was assessed before and 3 months after child care began. In the separation phase, salivary cortisol rose over the first 60 min following the mothers' departures to levels t...

This study explored adolescents' perspectives of inpatient mental health care, focussing on aspects of the inpatient environment they anticipated would help or hinder their transition back home. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 adolescent inpatients; transcripts were analysed thematically. Participants experienced inpatient treatment as offering a mix of benefits (e.g., support...

conclusions the results showed that the early relationship within the family environment supports a certain attachment style and the effects of the avoidant insecure and ambivalent insecure styles affect the interpersonal relations of the couples in adulthood. the effect of attachment styles on interpersonal relations is far greater than that of lifestyle. results the results indicate that atta...

Mobile IP protocols allow a mobile host to send and receive packets addressed with its home IP address, regardless of the IP address of its current point of attachment in the Internet. Four routing schemes, home, optimal, hierarchical and pointer forwarding approaches are discussed with regard to the handoffs. In the existing methods packets are delayed and lost during the change of the care-of...

While shifting electricity production to renewable sources is of critical importance in addressing global climate change, the costs such development are often felt locally. This study explores what leads support for wind when respondents asked think about three different geographic scales: general, regional and within view their home. Research was conducted Chignecto area Atlantic Canada, a sem...

background: according to the attachment theory, anxiety disorders due to the child and based on attachment disorders are defined. this study examined the relationship between mother's attachment style and school anxieties of mentally retarded male students.   methods: all mentally retarded male students of secondary schools during academic year of 2008-2009 in shiraz were studied (127 students)...