It is one of the most fundamental and robust result of sociology of education research that the level of education one attains is strongly determined by the socio-economic status and education of his/her parents2. For example, children from industry or farm worker families attain lower education than children from higher social strata in all developed countries (Gambetta, 1987). In other words,...

A common concern for patients who have undergone treatment for prostate cancer and their families is an elevation or spike in the PSA level following definitive treatment. A number of factors can be responsible for this, but often the PSA spike may be benign. An informed health care worker can reasonably assess whether this is the case, and can help to alleviate the fears of the patient and his...

Growing empirical evidence has suggested an association between deployment experiences and adverse consequences among military families in terms of individual and family functioning. Military families are increasingly seeking the support of clinical social workers for both preventing and managing these adverse outcomes. The contextual model of family stress and coping, a family stress theory co...

Subterranean termites have unusual plasticity in their breeding systems. As a result of their cryptic foraging and nesting habits, detailed information on the numbers and types of reproductive individuals in colonies has been difficult to obtain. In this study, we used microsatellite markers to infer the major features of the breeding system of the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes for...

The aim of this paper is to propose a mathematical model and to develop an optimization procedure to find efficient solutions to the joint flow shop group scheduling and workers assignment problem. In the investigated manufacturing system, the jobs are grouped into families and should visit machines in the same order., The group set-up times are sequence dependent. In order to evaluate the real...

Home health aides, home care workers, and personal care attendants form the core of the paid home care system, providing assistance with activities of daily living and the personal interaction that is essential to quality of life and quality of care for their clients. High turnover and long vacancy periods are costly for providers, consumers, their families, and workers themselves. In 2002, 37 ...

Although substantial numbers of women seeking Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) report domestic violence, few receive mandated services through the Family Violence Option (FVO). This study used transcripts ofinterviews between welfare caseworkers and their clients to identify and classify the responses made by workers to client disclosures of abuse and to assess the match or mismat...

The drawbacks of programming coordination activities directly within the applications software that needs them are briefly reviewed. Coordination programming helps to separate concerns, making complex coordination protocols into standalone entities; permitting separate development, verification, maintenance, and reuse. The IWIM coordination model is described, and a formal automata theoretic ve...

The drawbacks of programming coordination activities directly within the applications software that needs them are briefly reviewed. Coordination programming helps to separate concerns, making complex coordination protocols into standalone entities; permitting separate development, verification, maintenance, and reuse. The IWIM coordination model is described, and a formal automata theoretic ve...

The primary care NP has a significant opportunity to meet the special healthcare needs of the occupational community. While NPs routinely diagnose and treat workers, writing return-to-work restrictions can pose a challenge.