Along with traditional issues, educationalists nowadays raise many new ones, among them is the correlation of universal and national education patterns relating to ratio teaching learning, instruction upbringing. The emphasis on learning more characteristic modern theories English-speaking countries while in Russian speaking they still pay particular attention at educational establishments upbr...

This paper describes characteristic behaviors of my father, B. F. Skinner, using family documents and my own recollections. Early contingencies in his upbringing strengthened his love of building things and his independence in discovering how the world works. Those skills, combined with a lack of supervision in graduate school, set the stage for his discovery of the operant. He did not stop wit...

Contemporary Western society has grown to accept and expect fathers’ involvement in the antenatal period and birthing process of their offspring. Fathers are also recognised to share domestic responsibilities, which encompass taking on an active role in caring for and the upbringing of their children [5,7]. Of the limited research centred on fathers in the setting of teenage pregnancy, it has b...

Mental health professionals, like other professionals involved in family matters, feel constrained when advocating for the interests of children by the belief that parents are entitled to custody and control of their children's lives, regardless of what others may think of their parenting behavior, absent severe harm to the children. This belief is morally untenable, and the legal doctrine of p...

An account of the development of biological interest, and specifically interest in bees, by Charles D. Michener. Included topics are the role of graduate students and the relationship between behavioral studies and systematics. Sections are (a) upbringing, including initiation of biological interests, (b) early studies of bees, (c) student work at the University of California, Berkeley, (d) wor...

Despite the substantial differences between developing and developed countries, access is the major rural health issue. Studies in many countries have shown that the three factors most strongly associated with entering rural practice are: (1) a rural upbringing; (2) positive clinical and educational experiences in rural settings as part of undergraduate medical education; (3) targeted training ...

We used quantitative genetics techniques to compare the entrepreneurial activity of 870 pairs of monozygotic (MZ) and 857 pairs of same-sex dizygotic (DZ) twins from the United Kingdom. We ran model-fitting analyses to estimate the genetic, shared environmental and nonshared environmental effects on the propensity of people to become entrepreneurs. We found relatively high heritabilities for en...

I would first like to acknowledge your kindness in asking me to come and speak to you. I am afraid that you may find much of what I have to say is obvious. This, I think, is inevitable, since you have actually experienced what I can, for the most part, only talk about. You have felt the tensions that arise in the family with the advent and the upbringing of a backward child : I can only see the...