On June 26, 2015, exactly two years after it invalidated key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) in United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court issued its historic 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that same-sex couples could no longer be barred from exercising the fundamental right to marriage. For marriageequality supporters, this judicial victory represented “the culmi...

Commentators on B. Gawronski and G. V. Bodenhausen’s (2006) recently proposed associativepropositional evaluation (APE) model raised a number of interesting conceptual, empirical, and metatheoretical issues. The authors consider these issues and conclude that (a) the conceptual criticisms raised against the APE model are based on misinterpretations of its basic assumptions, (b) the empirical cr...

Atopic eczema is a chronic skin disorder that is most common in early childhood, an important stage in the child's social and emotional development. The psychiatric adjustment and mother-child attachment in 30 preschool children with severe atopic eczema was compared with 20 matched controls. Patients with eczema had a significant increase in behaviour symptoms, 7/30 (23%) v 1/20 (5%); with sig...

Materials and methods We evaluated 37 women outpatients of the Hospital of Unicamp, divided into two groups: preoperative (PreOp, n=16) and postoperative of gastric bypass Y Roux (PosOp, n=21). The mean age was 36.7±7.8 and 40.7±9.3 yrs. and BMI 47.2±3.8 and 26.7±3.3 kg/m2, respectively. Food choices were evaluated by Taste Attitude Scale, divide into sub-scales: craving for sweet foods, using ...

Child and Educational Psychology. Tlie Psychological Bulletin. Vol. Ill, No. 2, Nov. 15, 1907. Edited by M. V. O'Shea. The leading article of this number of the "Psychological Bulletin" is a critical and historical survey of recent work in education and child psychology from the pen of its editor, the Professor of the Science and Art of Education in the University of Wisconsin. Speaking for edu...

How to cite this article: Naidoo PV, Dawood F, Driver C, Narainsamy M, Ndlovu S, Ndlovu V. Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of pharmacy and nursing students towards male circumcision and HIV in a KwaZulu-Natal University, South Africa. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #327, 7 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/10.4102/phcfm. v4i1.327 Background: Male circumcision is currently being pro...

ArXiv : math.CO/0403017 v 1 1 March 2004 Summary Combinatorial interpretation of the fibonomial coefficients recently attampted by the present author [1,2] and presented here with suitable improvements results in a proposal of a might be combinatorial interpretation of the recurrence relation for fibonomial coefficients . The presentation is provided within the context of the classical combinat...

Little research has examined the properties of people's attitudes that predict how they will respond to conflict with others whose opinions differ. We propose that one aspect of attitude certainty-attitude correctness, or the perception that one's attitude is the "right" attitude to have-will predict more competitive conflict styles. This hypothesis was tested across five data sets comprising f...

conclusions many contributing factors of drug abuse obtained in this study can influence on tendency towards drug use for new students. it is evident that the period of residency in dormitories is one of the most critical periods in students' life. thus, the concerned authorities take necessary measures to overcome the students’ mental and social problems. results different percentages of parti...

Monte-Carlo simulations play a key role in the current Attitude and Orbit Control Systems (AOCS) Verification Validation (V&V) process, but it is generally time-consuming may fail detecting worst-case configurations, especially presence of rare events. In such case, ?-analysis offers nice alternative, although cannot measure probability occurrence identified worst-cases, which can invalidate co...