This article was accepted under the editorship of David A. F. Haaga. This paper is drawn from a doctoral dissertation by the first author, entitled “Parenting and Family Support in Primary Care Settings,” which was supervised by the second author. Special thanks go to Dr. Jan Nicholson, School of Public Health, Queensland University of Technology, who as associate supervisor provided invaluable...

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In this issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Sakabe et al report that the polymerase acidic (PA) protein component of the H5N1 influenza RNA-dependent RNA polymerase affects cytokine production in human macrophages and may be important in determining pathogenicity in mice [1]. They imply that PA may be relevant to the increased mortality mediated by hypercytokinemia in H5N1 infection in...

Clique sizes for chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) grooming and for human conversation are compared in order to test Robin Dunbar’s hypothesis that human language is almost three times as efficient a bonding mechanism as primate grooming. Recalculation of the data provided by Dunbar et al. (1995) reveals that the average clique size for human conversation is 2.72 whereas that of chimpanzee grooming ...

This article intends to help educators interested in technology integration in the classroom acquire a firm theoretical foundation, pedagogical applications, and step-by-step technical procedures for infusing digital storytelling into the curriculum. Through illustrations of digital storytelling projects completed in the authors’ undergraduate and graduate classes, this article discusses the be...

there are various aspects and dimensions in christian religion which attracted the attention of mystics. one of these aspects is the doctrine of trinity. the moslem theosophists, like other groups of scholars, have had a reaction against this issue and have criticized it. however, there are some differences in mystic’s viewpoints in comparison with that of other scholars, especially the theolog...

Thinkers and philosophers have constantly benefited from different         approaches of reasoning to explore and justify their ideas. Theses reasoning            approaches are considered as the principle instruments in speculative activities of the thinkers. To this end to achieve the procedure of thinking and the way philosophers achieve objectives, it is necessary to recognize their reasoni...

This article intends to provide an introduction to the construction of small exotic 4-manifolds. Some of the necessary background is covered. An exposition is given of J. Park’s construction in [P] of an exotic CP#7CP. This article does not intend to present any new results. It was originally a Master’s thesis, and its aim is merely to provide a leisurely introduction to exotic 4-manifolds that...