This study explored ethnic identity and self-esteem among 1062 Mexican-origin adolescents who were attending one of three schools, which varied in their ethnic composition (i.e., predominantly Latino, predominantly non-Latino, and balanced Latino/non-Latino). Significant relationships emerged between ethnic identity and self-esteem among adolescents in all school settings. Furthermore, controll...

The present study describes approaches for the identification of individual beech trees using maternal tissues from their seeds or fruits. Four microsatellite markers were used for genetic analysis of seedlots from Fagus orientalis Lipsky, a highly out-crossing tree species. Seeds from 11 single-tree harvests belonging to one population, (7 seeds from each), as well as non-paranchymatic materna...

OBJECTIVES to understand the effect of expectant motherhood discourses on parents who suffer a stillbirth. DESIGN a qualitative, exploratory study using in-depth interviews to understand parental experience of stillbirth. SETTING interviews took place in the homes of bereaved parents across several English health authorities. PARTICIPANTS 10 couples and 12 mothers who had experienced a st...

Sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka were used as a model in an artificial fertilization experiment to investigate the relationships between individual adult O. nerka and their offspring. Survival, size and burst swimming ability were assessed in fry of known parentage (adult spawners from the Weaver Creek population, British Columbia, Canada). Maternal identity significantly affected the survival...

The placenta has been considered an mice. Both maternal red cells and lymanatomical barrier which prevents maphocytes labeled, respectively, with ratemal rejection of the fetal allograft. This diochromium and tritiated thymidine view is no longer tenable since, in one have been detected in newborn mice. particular inbred strain of mouse, materThis phenomenon appears independent nal blood cells ...