Separation Protest in Guatemalan Infants: Cross-Cultural and Cognitive Findings

Father Interaction and Separation Protest

Thirty-six 1-year-old middle-class children with fathers who spent differential time with them at home were observed in two experimental contexts separated by 2 weeks. In the first, each infant was shown six to eight repetitions of three different nonsocial events followed by a change in the repeated standard. In the second, each infant experienced the unannounced entrances and departures of hi...

Running head: GUATEMALAN AND CANADIAN USE OF E-COMMERCE FOR TOURISM

E-commerce has simplified transactions between businesses and consumers and made them more efficient. Tourism, due to its global nature, is one of the industries most impacted by e-commerce. As with other information technologies, e-commerce has not been adopted at the same rate in all cultures, and although the reasons for varying adoption rates are complex, studies have shown that cultural fa...

Cross-Cultural Investigation into Generic Structure of Dissertation Acknowledgements in English and Persian: Reflections on Politeness Strategies

This contrastive study, in the first place, examined the generic structure and, in the second place, explored the face theory proposed by Arundale (2006) in 140 doctoral dissertation acknowledgments written by native speakers of Persian (NSP) and native speakers of English (NSE) in 7 disciplines representing soft sciences to find out what discourse genre components writers employ to articulate ...

A Cross-Cultural Study: Student Protest Movements at University of Cape Town and University of California-Berkeley from 1960-1965

Delayed clamping of the umbilical cord improves hematologic status of Guatemalan infants at 2 mo of age.

Iron deficiency anemia is a serious health problem that affects the physical and cognitive development of children. Therefore, it is important to develop cost-effective interventions to improve the hematologic status of the millions of children affected by this condition worldwide. We studied 69 Guatemalan infants who had been randomly assigned to one of three groups at the time of delivery: 1)...