Although humans measure time using a continuous scale, certain numerical ages inspire greater self-reflection than others. Six studies show that adults undertake a search for existential meaning when they approach a new decade in age (e.g., at ages 29, 39, 49, etc.) or imagine entering a new epoch, which leads them to behave in ways that suggest an ongoing or failed search for meaning (e.g., by...

Eleven years ago, I published an article in this journal detailing the ways that international development work was heteronormative, assuming heterosexual gender stereotyped household models and framing sexuality as a problem of ill-health or violence, rather than potentially pleasurable contributor to well-being. Over decade later, while sector is largely still LGBTI sexual pleasure have now m...

Celiac disease also known as gluten-sensitive enteropathy is characterized by intestinal mucosal damage and malabsorption from dietary intake of wheat, rye or barley. Symptoms may appear with introduction of cereal in the first 3 years of life. A second peak in symptoms occurs in adults during the third or forth decade and even as late as eight decade of life. The prevalence of this disease is ...

in the present decade approaches of cooperative learning have been studied from different viewpoints. reviewing these outlooks has led to presenting a paradigm taken into operation in the form of present research (a quasi-experiment). this field study was conducted on the 5th grade students of the seven education districts of the city of mashhad. a sample of 132 by random method were selected. ...

there has been a lot of development in the science of implantology since forty years ago when extensive research began on this field of science. the use of dental implantology has also increased in the last decade, which the main reason is the success of it. recently some of our colleagues participate in short time introductory and advanced courses of implant inside or outside the country and b...

Over the past decade, the chemical behavior of flavonoids as antioxidants has become the subject ofintense experimental research. Plants represent a main source of natural antioxidants that might serveas leads for the development of novel drugs. Malva sylvestris L. known to have various medicinalproperties since several decade ago, were evaluated for their antioxidant compounds ,Most of thesebi...

the iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (it). this paper investigates the competitive condition of the iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the h-statistic proposed by panzar and rosse. the properties of this non-structural methodology make it...