This study explored mothers’ perceptions of their children’s resistance to requests and defiance parental authority during middle childhood early adolescence. We were interested in change resistance, interpretations the meaning responses these behaviors. Forty Canadian mothers children 9–13 years age participated for one week a focused on parents’ experiences opposition. Procedures consisted qu...

What is the relationship to 'contemporary' — 'now' in Scottish Gaelic poetry? How are idea of ‘present’, minoritized status Gaelic, and evolving between language landscape (and meaningless) figured poems? Taking these questions as a starting point, this essay explores through ideas Agamben, Latour, Christopher Whyte range contemporary poems by writers (including Meg Bateman, Ruaraidh MacThòmais...

The Conners' Rating Scales are one of the most used instruments for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Nonetheless, in the latest edition, the Inattention scale was not statistically supported. This study examined the dimensionality of the Italian version of the Conners 3-Self-Report scale testing both a five-factor structure including Inattention and a four-factor model combining...

In the half century since the formulation of the prokaryote : eukaryote dichotomy, many authors have proposed that the former evolved from something resembling the latter, in defiance of common (and possibly common sense) views. In such 'eukaryotes first' (EF) scenarios, the last universal common ancestor is imagined to have possessed significantly many of the complex characteristics of contemp...

Between 1959 and 1994, in defiance of Cuban law, more than 63,000 citizens left Cuba by sea in small groups and reached the United States alive. Thousands more washed up in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and other Caribbean shores. Over the years, they have been collectively known as balseros (rafters) and their precarious vessels as balsas (rafts). Over the summer of 2004, University of Miami...