Viewing the child as a participant within context

Viewing the child as a participant within context

Viewing Biofilms within the Larger Context of Bacterial Aggregations

The ‘Microbial Cities’ vision of bacterial biofilms has dominated our understanding of the development and functioning of bacterial aggregations for the past 20 years, during which active sludge, clumps, colonies, flocs, mats, pellicles, rafts, slimes, zooglea, etc. have been largely forgotten or ignored. Although the medically inspired developmen‐ tal model of human pathogen biofilms has merit...

How parents perceive screen viewing in their 5–6 year old child within the context of their own screen viewing time: a mixed-methods study

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined parental perceptions of their child's screen-viewing (SV) within the context of parental SV time. This study qualitatively examined parents' perceptions of their 5-6-year-old child's SV within the context of their own quantitatively measured SV. METHODS A mixed-methods design employed semi-structured telephone interviews, demographic and SV questionnaires,...

Child Development and Family Functioning within the Romanian Context

Romania is located in the southeastern part of Europe and has a population of 21.68 million, with 52% residing in urban areas. Ninety percent of the people identify themselves as Romanian, 7% Hungarian, and 3% belong to other ethnic groups (Census, 2002; Government White Book, 2001). In 100 AD., the Roman Empire conquered the local population, the Geto-Dacians, and established a province coveri...

Sharing Individual Participant Data (IPD) within the Context of the Trial Reporting System (TRS)

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) [1], journal editors [2,3], and many others [4–6] have called for more widespread, third-party access to the individual participant data (IPD) and associated documentation from clinical trials (i.e., “IPD sharing”). Advocates assert that access to trial IPD will help to address well-established flaws in the current system of communicating trial results, including...