The Flower protein family is part of a cell-cell communication pathway that regulates cell competition, in which fit cells eliminate less fit neighbors. A new study demonstrates that this pathway can also govern the culling of unwanted neurons during development.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To elicit detailed descriptions of adolescents' information and support needs in response to their mothers' breast cancer. DESIGN Exploratory, qualitative. SETTING Four different outpatient and inpatient oncology settings in western Canada. SAMPLE 31 adolescent children of women in five illness phases. METHODS 27 semistructured interviews and two focus groups were con...

It has been almost two decades since the beginning of the web. This means that the web is no longer just a technology of the present, but also, a record of our past. Email, one of the original forms of social media, is even older than the web and contains a detailed description of our personal and professional history. This thesis explores the world of email communication by introducing Immersi...

background: one of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. the aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in iran.materials and methods: this study was a conventional content analysis. participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...

Family communication often becomes an important discourse in the discussion on family function as one of entity our society. Parents are pillars providing a good environment family. Communication among members and siblings is also found affecting decision-making process clear between parents child can bring them to very positive effective interaction. McLeod Chaffee (1972) formulated quadrant p...

Adolescents are admitted to psychiatric wards presenting with psychiatric problems which are essentially secondary to problematic interpersonal relationships. Successful interpersonal relationships however depend on effective interpersonal communication. Therefore the aim of research on adolescent interpersonal communication was to explore and describe the interpersonal communication patterns o...

The family in Iran is a powerful and influential institution that is undergoing change over time. Various factors have contributed to these changes. In the 21st century, media such as satellite and cinema have linked communities closer together. In such a situation, the views, attitudes and beliefs of other societies reach out to other societies in the form of images, sounds and symbols through...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between parenting styles and family communication patterns with adolescent's quality of life. METHODS The cross-sectional study was carried out on 439 randomly selected adolescents in the city of Zahedan, Iran, from January to July 2011.The subjects were asked to complete the KIDSCREEN-52 health-related quality of life questionnaire, while their paren...