the birth or presence of a child with hearing defect provides unique and different challenges for family. however, in this situation all family members are hurt and their functions are impaired, but the mother, due to the traditional role of caregiver for these children to have more responsibility, more psychosocial problems may be encountered. the assumption is that the problems associated wit...

Background: Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common childhood cancer. Several studies have shown that ALL occurs as a result of genetic abnormalities. 1, 25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 as a secosteroid hormone plays an important role in different metabolic pathways. The normal function of vitamin D occurs via binding to a ligand-activated transcription factor i.e. vitamin D receptor (VDR)...

background: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) is the most common form of childhood cancer leading to cancer-related death in children. most infants with all harbor recurring structural chromosomal rearrangements that are important initiating events in leukemogenesis but are insufficient to explain the biology and heterogeneity of the disease. mixed-lineage leukemia-rearrangement (mll-rearrange...

The paper reviews findings from recent descriptive data on child support and estimates a multivariate model of the determination of child support income. The descriptive data show large differentials in award status among sociodemographic subgroups of women. Once an award has been made, variation in recipiency rates is small. Payments constitute a significant part of the incomes of women receiv...

A survey of AFDC recipients in California shows that income, even when adjusted for household need and augmented by the food stamp grant, poorly predicts hunger or overcrowding among respondents. Families with teenage boys report hunger much more often than their incomes would predict, as do families whose finances have recently deteriorated. Families seem to cut back on food consumption before...