outcomes. However, conflict also serves as a creative force, providing both initiative and incentive to solve problems. This chapter describes conflict in general, identifies contributing factors, and offers several examples specific to EM. The importance of effective communication in conflict resolution is presented, as well as its role in de-escalating, limiting, and preventing conflict. This...

A culture promoting a strong desire for romantic relationships can greatly influence feelings of romantic loneliness and of closeness. In this study, the authors hypothesized that when not in a romantic relationship, U.S. young adults experience greater degrees of romantic loneliness because of a high desire for romantic relationships, compared with Korean young adults. The authors also predict...

Results from the study of jets in hadronic final states produced in ee annihilation at √ s = 14 to 209 GeV are discussed. Precise measurements of the strong coupling αS at many points of √ s provide convincing evidence for the running of αS as expected by QCD. Several measurements of the running b-quark mass mb(MZ0) are combined yielding mb(MZ0) = (2.92±0.03(stat.)±0.31(syst.)) GeV and compared...

In the present study, we assessed the treatment effects of PBDE-209 administration on the immune function in rats during pregnancy and lactation. We harvested the blood and organs for flow cytometry, viability assay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and histological evaluation. The results of this study were the PBDE-209 exposure during pregnancy and lactation impairs immune function in rats....

8 a Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, Xuzhou Medical College, 209 Tongshan 9 Road, Xuzhou 221004, P.R.China. 10 b Jiangsu Key Laboratory of New Drug Research and Clinical Pharmacy, Xuzhou 11 Medical College, 209 Tongshan Road, Xuzhou 221004, P.R.China. 12 c Department of Pharmacy, Xuzhou Medical College, 209 Tongshan Road, Xuzhou 13 221004, P.R.China. 14 d Department of Medicinal Chemistry...