s From Section 1. Critical Importance of Emotional Development Biological Basis of Emotions: Brain Systems and Brain Development Harry T. Chugani, MD Functional neuroimaging techniques, such as positron emission tomography, have made it possible to noninvasively investigate brain metabolism during development. Studies have revealed a dynamic period of metabolic maturation and neuronal growth co...

Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregrate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As productivity is difficult to inves...

This pilot study was designed to test the efficacy of adding home-based Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR)/Floortime™ intervention to the routine care of preschool children with autistic spectrum disorder. Measures of functional emotional development and symptom severity were taken. It was found that after the parents added home-based DIR/Floortime™ intervention at a...

introduction: the proportion of older adults in the population continues to grow in the developing countries. in addition, persons at or over the age of 60 years have decreased quality of life in geriartrics because of several factors, such as low physical activity and impairment in mobility. this study was performed to assess the effect of group-based exercise program on physical functional in...

background: breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and second leading cause of death in women after lung cancer. the world health organization has reported that breast cancer, with 502,000 deaths in 2005, surpassed lung, stomach, colorectal, and cervical cancers as the leading cause of death in women. the main objective of the current study was to examine the predictive role of emotion...

Recently, a random breakage model has been proposed to explain the negative correlation between mean chromosome length and chromosome number that is found in many groups of species and is consistent with Menzerath-Altmann law, a statistical law that defines the dependency between the mean size of the whole and the number of parts in quantitative linguistics. Here, the central assumption of the ...

This article presents a qualitative analysis showing the dependency of effective collaborative argumentation on interpersonal relational aspects that develop during synchronous interaction. Four regulatory principles are proposed as propelling the interaction, and of these, autoregulation, or the conservative restraints within the existing relation, appears to be the dominant force. When using ...

This study investigated the functional dependency of aged individuals and caregiver burden. This epidemiological and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 with 574 aged individuals and 124 caregivers in Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, using the following instruments: Functional Independency Measure (FIM) and Zarit Burden Interview. Among the elderly, most (67.8%) were women with a mean age of...

customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world.customer satisfaction is the major concern to many leading companies throughout the world. more firms use satisfaction ratings as an indicator of the performance of products and services and as an indicator of the company’s future. as lately shown companies that are able to identify customer needs and alig...