The current study investigated the differences between intact and non-intact families in family processes, including systematic family functioning, parental behavioral control, parental psychological control, and parent-child relational qualities. The participants were 3,328 Secondary One students, with a mean age of 12.59 years, recruited from 28 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Four validated ...

In the past few decades, huge surges and waves generated during tsunami events have caused devastating destruction to both onshore offshore infrastructures, seriously threatening safety intactness of coastal communities around world. As one most important protection a seawall can effectively reduce impact intensity waves, thus playing vital role in protecting regions. Most previous studies syst...

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in children with various speech disorders. Also, identifying the factors causing these disorders early and providing proper support is increasingly important. If steps to correct such are not taken quickly, secondary issues, as communication, socialization, educational problems, observed. Training corrective measures should be carried out w...

Cloud storage has gained increasing popularity, as it helps cloud users arbitrarily store and access the related outsourced data. Numerous public audit buildings have been presented to ensure data transparency. However, modern developments mostly constructed on key infrastructure. To achieve integrity, auditor must first authenticate legality of certificate, which adds an immense workload for a...

Recent technological improvements have extended the application range of dielectric permittivity biomass measurements to on-line monitoring of physiological changes during bacterial fermentations. In an industrial fermentation of Bacillus thuringiensis, it is important to verify the intactness of bacterial plasmid content in all steps of culture. Changes in certain plasmid resident properties o...

chromosomal defects are relatively frequent in infertile men however, translocations between the y chromosome and autosomes are rare and less than 40 cases of y-autosome translocation have been reported. in particular, only three individuals has been described with a y;21 translocation, up to now. we report on an additional case of an infertile man in whom a y;21 translocation was associated wi...

Whenever there is a need for manufacturing products with higher deposition rates (usually more than 10 kg per hour) different alloys of primary metal materials such as titanium, nickel, aluminum, steel and other superalloys, wire arc additive often considered the best AM (additive manufacturing) technology from state art technologies around practice. This practice usually incorporates usage fee...