I test for welfare-induced migration by comparing AFDC participation in border counties to interior counties in the same state. If migration costs are lower for border county residents, border counties on the high-benefit side of a state border should have higher welfare participation relative to the state's interior counties. Border counties on the low-benefit side should have lower welfare pa...

The genome projects have unearthed an enormous diversity of genes of unknown function that are still awaiting biological and biochemical characterization. These genes, as most others, can be grouped into families based on sequence similarity. The PFAM database currently contains over 2,200 such families, referred to as domains of unknown function (DUF). In a coordinated effort, the four large-s...

The authors explore how to define a welfare spell and how well surveys measure welfare spells. By comparing survey and administrative data from the Work Pays Demonstration Project in California on the receipt of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), they find that a substantial amount of administrative churning occurs in administrative data. Through a mixing model of several break len...

This article assesses the reliability and validity of Self-Efficacy in Client-Centredness questionnaire (SECCQ). SECCQ social worker students’ subjective belief their ability to provide client-centered care daily interaction with children or families. Self-efficacy is defined as an individual’s judgments concerning capability perform certain skills necessary attain a desired outcome behavior. C...

BACKGROUND Transition from pediatric to adult care can be a challenging process which leaves young people vulnerable to interruptions of care and worsening disease status. Efforts to improve transition processes and outcomes have included development of individualized transition plans, creation of transition clinics, and utilization of transition coordinators. Few interventions have assessed tr...

BACKGROUND A group of children with complex health care needs have emerged as a result of medical advances and government policies emphasizing the community as the arena for care. Some of these children remain dependent on the medical technology that enabled them to survive and require care of a complex and intensive nature to be carried out by their parents at home. AIMS To explore the exper...

Body mass shapes processes from cell metabolism to community dynamics. Little is known, however, about how the average body mass of individuals varies among ecological communities. Ants alter colony mass by independently changing worker mass and/or worker number. In a survey of 49 ecosystems from tundra to tropical rainforest, average worker mass and worker number were uncorrelated (r(s) = 0.2,...

The objective of the paper is to examine how altruism motives influence inflows worker remittances in Nepal. Evidence suggests that flows Nepal had increased significantly response earthquake April-May, 2015. Remittances rose dramatically by 20.9 percent 2015 versus 3.2 2014. There also a correlation between level remittance and hardship. uses inflation as an indicator ‘Financial Hardship’ anal...

The development of research related to work-family conflict is overgrowing. However, there are still various gaps involving the mediating role investigate indirect effect on performance. This study aims examine psychological well-being in pathway researcher involved 81 respondents, most whom were college employees. basic theory this uses conservation resources theory. results found that could f...