According to several 2008 reports, blogging continues to attract writers and readers (Comscore Media Matrix, 2008; eMarketer, 2008; Sifry, 2008; Universal McCann, 2008). This form of Web content creation has matured beyond public personal journaling to support citizen journalism or journalism produced by independent bloggers unaffiliated with professional newsrooms (Lenhart & Fox, 2006). The po...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a common and sometimes disabling syndrome which has been reported to affect up to 10–15% of adults in North America (1) and Western Europe (2,3); inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), though less common, affecting approximately 0.5% of the Canadian population (4), is not rare. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that these entities should, on occasion, coinci...

the influence of persian poetry on american literature is one of the discussions that have been reviewed to a lesser degree by those, who have done research in the field of comparative literature. the subject of the current article is to examine the influence of hafez of shiraz on the romantic poet and the transcendentalist philosopher, ralph waldo emerson. the given research first gives a shor...

The rationale underlying factor analysis applies to continuous and categorical variables alike; however, the models and estimation methods for continuous (i.e., interval or ratio scale) data are not appropriate for item-level data that are categorical in nature. The authors provide a targeted review and synthesis of the item factor analysis (IFA) estimation literature for ordered-categorical da...

Few empirical efforts have been devoted to differentiating status and power, and thus significant questions remain about differences in how status and power impact social encounters. We conducted 5 studies to address this gap. In particular, these studies tested the prediction that status and power would have opposing effects on justice enacted toward others. In the first 3 studies, we directly...

We review and relate two literatures on the development of attention in children: one concerning flexible attention switching and the other concerning selective attention. The first is a growing literature on preschool children's performances in an attention-switching task indicating that children become more flexible in their attentional control during the preschool years. The second literatur...