2014;27(3) S Afr J Clin Nutr Egal AA, Public Health Nutritionist Senior Researcher, Vaal University of Technology, Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods Oldewage-Theron WH, Dietitian, Community Nutritionist Director , Vaal University of Technology, Centre of Sustainable Livelihoods Correspondence to: Abdulkadir Egal, e-mail: [email protected]

A unifying approach is presented between similarity, consimilarity, T congruence and *congruence of a matrix A to a symmetric, to a Hermitian or to a real matrix. Also studied are similarity consimilarity, T congruence and *congruence of a matrix A to A∗, AT , and A. Attempts are made to find special (con)similarities and congruences, as well as to find connections between these classes of maps...

Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, Departamento de Quõ Âmica InorgaÂnica y OrgaÂnica, Universidad de JaeÂn, 23071 JaeÂn, Spain, Grupo de InvestigacioÂn de Compuestos Heterociclõ Âcos, Departamento de Quõ Âmica, Universidad de Valle, AA 25360 Cali, Colombia, and School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9ST, Scotland Corr...

SINCE BECOMING a side-line observer of Alcoholics Anonymous in 1939, my approach to alcoholism has undergone an almost total reorientation. For the first time I saw what peace of mind means in the achievement of sobriety and I began to consider the emotional factors involved from a very different viewpoint. In A.A. meetings, the role of resentments was a recurrent theme. This seemed significant...

BACKGROUND Despite widespread use of 12-step treatment approaches and referrals to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) by youth providers, little is known about the significance of these organizations in youth addiction recovery. Furthermore, existing evidence is based mostly on short-term follow-up and is limited methodologically. METHODS Adolescent inpatients (n = 160; me...

This investigation was designed to analyze the values stressed by speakers at meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) and to ascertain whether values stressed by members of middle class social status background differ from those stressed by lower class members. Previous investigations (2,3,4) have disclose that class values of his early training become integral parts of the individual's persona...

As you have come to know, coping with a family member's drinking problem can bring out many questions and challenges. As a parent, it's not unusual to want to do everything you can to make sure your child is successful in her efforts to address her drinking problem ? even if this child is herself an adult. It's also important to recognize that your daughter has to do this work for herself. As a...

1432 June 2015 Anesthesiology, V 122 • No 6 1432 AA working mother, Concerned for her only child, The precious child she fought hard to unnaturally conceive. The child has not been well. She places her child in my care. That child the autopsy report would eventually describe down to the fingernails. (“Short and clean”) The mother, standing in her tears, Robbed of motherhood by an unknown force ...

Over the past 55 years, two longitudinal studies have been monitoring the drinking behaviors and their consequences of several hundred men from adolescence and early adulthood to old age. The studies identified co-occurring sociopathy, cultural factors (e.g., ethnicity), and genetic factors (i.e., a family history of alcoholism) as risk factors for alcoholism. In most alcoholics, the disease ha...

Most applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [2, 4, 10, 19, 22, 24, 25] require long term (several months or even years of) unattended operation from their networks. But, significant challenges still remain in achieving longterm unattended operation from large-scale wireless sensor networks. Critical among those are the problems of power management. An important distinction between wire...