Empowering Diverse Families

Empowering Families in the Treatment of Autism

Empowering children and families with information technology.

Patient empowerment is the enhanced ability of patients to actively understand and influence their health status. Information is the key to patient empowerment. Without information, children and families cannot engage in meaningful discussions or make thoughtful decisions regarding medical care. Information sharing is a model for patient interaction with the health care system that may signific...

Activity-based probes that target diverse cysteine protease families.

Proteases are one of the largest and best-characterized families of enzymes in the human proteome. Unfortunately, the understanding of protease function in the context of complex proteolytic cascades remains in its infancy. One major reason for this gap in understanding is the lack of technologies that allow direct assessment of protease activity. We report here an optimized solid-phase synthes...

Diverse families of Random rooted trees A compilation of characteristics

This diploma thesis deals with four big groups of random trees, namely Polya trees, simple generated trees, increasing trees and scale-free trees. Di erent characteristics, similarities and di erences of these varieties are discussed, e.g. the limiting distribution of node-degrees. Most results are obtained using generating functions and methods of singulary analysis and stochastics. In the rst...

Responsiveness of Diverse Families of Loblolly Pine to Fertilization

Loblolly pine is by far the most important forest tree species in the South, with over 1 billion seedlings planted annually by forest industry and non-industrial private forest landowners (McKeand et al. 2003). Genetic gains from tree improvement programs have been large, since geographic and within-provenance variation for growth and adaptive traits in loblolly pine is very large. General tren...