OBJECTIVE to identify the factors associated with lack of anticipated support for care for community-dwelling older adults. METHOD this study presents comparison and logistic regression analyses of data from 671 individuals who took part of the multicentric study entitled "Frailty in older Brazilians" - a quantitative, epidemiologic and transversal investigation carried out between 2008 and 2...

This study was conducted to identify self-directed and external professional development obstacles facing primary school EFL teachers in Southern Zone of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The participants of the study were 63 primary school EFL teachers, 10 school principals and 2 clusters of supervisors. School teachers were selected using random sampling technique whereas school principals and clust...

This study was conducted to identify self-directed and external professional development obstacles facing primary school EFL teachers in Southern Zone of Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The participants of the study were 63 primary school EFL teachers, 10 school principals and 2 clusters of supervisors. School teachers were selected using random sampling technique whereas school principals and clust...

The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers of application of precision farming in the view of agricultural researchers in Khouzestan province. The research method was survey. Agricultural researchers in Khouzestan province considered as statistical population (N=136). All researchers considered as sample size by census method.  After designing and validating the questionnaire, the qu...

Both a lack of social support and psychopathy show a positive association with aggressive behavior. This study investigated whether a perceived lack of family support and psychopathy would facilitate “antisocial punishment behavior,” which was defined as punishment behavior to cooperators in a trust game. The participants were four groups of university students with low or high levels of psycho...

background:living with patients of chronic diseases such as heart failure (hf) is a difficult situation for the caregivers. this study explored the iranian family caregivers’ burden of caregiving for patients with hf. materials and methods: eighteen family caregivers of the hf patients from two governmental medical training centers in isfahan, iran were recruited using purposive sampling. data ...

In this research, we examined the experiences of individuals living with obesity, the perceptions of health care providers, and the role of social, institutional, and political structures in the management of obesity. We used feminist poststructuralism as the guiding methodology because it questions everyday practices that many of us take for granted. We identified three key themes across the t...

Many hypotheses proposed as explanations of gene family diversity in vertebrates invoke two successive polyploidizations prior to the origin of fishes (see references in Skrabanek and Wolfe 1998; Martin 1999). This hypothesis has gained widespread support in the literature. Spring (1997) has advanced the term ‘‘tetralogy’’ as a definition of orthology in which the four paralogous gene copies in...