The school is one of the most important contexts for carrying out health promotion programs related to the abuse of substances. Over the years, methods and intervention models have changed a great deal, both in relation to the evolution of health goals and to the role played by experts, students, parents, and teachers. We would like to offer a different perspective on health promotion at school...

Today, we continue our worship series on the Lord's Prayer. We've gotten the greeting out of the way, "Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name." And last week we wrestled, in with the meaning of the petition, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." Today we move to the first utterances about us, that God will take care of us, give us what we need, that do G...

As with any discipline, the field of child development progresses by both deepening and broadening its conceptual and empirical perspective. The rewards to refinement are impressive, but there is little need for encouragement in this area, since existing disciplines, universities, and funding agencies reward depth. The current study makes the case for breadth: for combining insights from differ...

The behavioral responses of rats toward mice were studied. A portion of the rats killed the mice, as found in previous studies. Another group of rats exhibited a different, previously unstudied response of mouse carrying (without the kill). A behavioral study of the stability of mouse killing or carrying was carried out. The behaviors were found to be stable over two trials in 1 day and over 5 ...

Background: To investigate the status of the nuclear medicine (NM) centers in Iran for the performance of dose calibrators, 18 out of 54 centers providing NM services in Iran were randomly selected and inspected in 1997. In the first phase of the study the selected centers were inspected for performing of quality control (QC) tests of dose calibrators. The linearity of the activity res...