The acceptance model of intuitive eating (Avalos & Tylka, 2006) posits that body acceptance by others helps women appreciate their body and resist adopting an observer's perspective of their body, which contribute to their eating intuitively/adaptively. We extended this model by integrating body mass index (BMI) into its structure and investigating it with emerging (ages 18-25 years old, n = 31...

Social competence is one of the primary components mental health development. This study examines associations between adolescent and its components, adulthood adaptive functioning internalizing externalizing problems. As part a longitudinal that begun in Finland 1989, 191 mothers, 126 fathers their 192 16–17-year-old children completed standardized questionnaire, Child Behavior Checklist or Yo...

BACKGROUND A significant proportion of patients with congenital heart disease require surgery in adulthood. We aimed to give an overview of the prevalence, distribution, and outcome of cardiovascular surgery for congenital heart disease. We specifically questioned whether the effects of surgical treatment on subsequent long-term survival depend on sex. METHODS AND RESULTS From the Dutch Conge...

the survival, growth, reproductive and life span characteristics of phallocryptus spinosa were studied at different temperatures in the laboratory. three replicates of 200 newly hatched nauplii were transferred to culture containers at 15, 20, 25 and 30˚c. the larvae were fed with unicellular algae dunaliella tertiolecta and chemically treated yeast known as lansy pz. survival and growth rate o...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety persist within and across diagnostic boundaries. The manner in which common v. disorder-specific genetic and environmental influences operate across development to maintain internalizing disorders and their co-morbidity is unclear. This paper investigates the stability and change of etiological influences on depression, panic, generalized, separation and social...