The present study examined the relationship between maternal self-efficacy, dysfunctional discipline practices and child conduct problems. Specifically, three levels of self-efficacy, global, domain and task-specific self-efficacy, were assessed in mothers of 2- to 8-year-old children with conduct problems (clinic group, n=45) and non-clinic mothers from the community (non-clinic group, n=79). ...

In this paper we propose an algorithm for personalized learning based on a user’s query and a repository of lecture subparts —i.e., learning objects— both are described in a subset of OWL-DL. It works in two steps. First, it retrieves lecture subparts that cover as much as possible the user’s query. The solution is based on the concept covering problem for which we present a modified algorithm....

A team approach in the comprehensive management of children on a general paediatric ward is described. The team comprises paediatricians, nurses, a child psychiatrist, and a social worker, with a psychologist, play-leader, and teachers making important contributions. In this way members of the team learn from each other, and the paediatrician in training gains valuable experience about the mana...

a 50-year-old lady presented with bloody vomiting and melena since four days prior to admission. her medical history was significant only for hypertension which was controlled by a 5 mg daily dose of amlodipine. she occasionally took nsaids. on admission, the physical exam revealed only mild tachycardia and pallor. hemoglobin was 9.7 g/dl, which subsequently declined to 7.9 g/dl. the first uppe...

Lemma 2.2. It suffices to find disjoint L,R ∈ V such that they are (1) Large in Ω(n), or more formally stated, |L||R| ≥ α(n). (2) ∆-separated for ∆ = Ω( 1 logn) Let us define what ∆-separated means so that we can formalize this notion of “farness”. Recall that a distance from a vertex i to a set S is defined as d(i, S) = minj∈S d(i, j) (distance to the closest point in the set) and a distance f...

This article presents a case study of play therapy with an emotionally disturbed abused child. The article discusses the intuitive and individualized approach to the world of the abused child (conceptualized as a "cultured of one") in which the nurse therapist's role is to develop a trusting relationship with the child. Distance between the nurse's world and that of the abused child can be brid...

We study a class of geometric stabbing/covering problems for sets of line segments, rays, and lines in the plane. While we demonstrate that the problems on sets of horizontal/vertical line segments are NP-complete, we show that versions involving (parallel) rays or lines are polynomially solvable.

Consider the symmetric group Sn equipped with the Hamming metric dH . Packing and covering problems in the finite metric space (Sn, dH) are surveyed, including a combination of both.

Finding the closest or farthest line segment (line) from a point are fundamental proximity problems. Given a set S of n points in the plane and another point q, we present optimal O(n logn) time, O(n) space algorithms for finding the closest and farthest line segments (lines) from q among those spanned by the points in S. We further show how to apply our techniques to find the minimum (maximum)...