The current study examined the effect of empathy on friendship quality in the context of dyadic same-sex friendships, and how such an effect might be mediated by interpersonal competence. A special version of the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) was used to examine this hypothesis in 146 same-sex friend dyads in 10th grade. Results showed that empathy was positively related to intimac...

Number concept is defined as a person’s general understanding to perform operation on numbers. National Council of Teachers Mathematics (NCTM, 2002), USA (it world’s largest mathematics organisation), states that “the foundation for children’s mathematical development established in the earliest years”. Therefore, pre-school age crucial period life and considerable amount attention should be pa...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO http://www.aalto.fi Author: Frank Bescherer Name of the dissertation: Product cost analysis during pre-development Manuscript submitted 24. May 2010 Manuscript revised Date of the defence 29. October 2010 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty Faculty of Inform...

Task Force on Hypertension in Pregnancy. 122 5: 112231.Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of pregnancy in which there is high blood. 5 Management of pregnancy with pre-eclampsia. 8 Medical management of severe hypertension or severe pre-eclampsia in a critical care setting. 1 Classification of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy. Pre-eclampsia complicates 2-3 of all pregnancies 5-7 in nulliparous wome...

In the past few decades, it has become increasingly popular and important to utilize mathematical models to understand how microscopic intercellular interactions lead to the macroscopic pattern formation ubiquitous in the biological world. Modeling methodologies come in a large variety and presently it is unclear what is their interrelationship and the assumptions implicit in their use. They ca...