The research literature on families and educational achievement as it addresses African American populations is uniquely characterized by attention to educational failure rather than educational success (Slaughter, Nakagawa, et al., 1990). This orientation originated over 40 years ago with the "culture-as-social-class" conceptual model, which attempts to explain the behavior of lower income Afr...

The WRF-Fire coupled atmosphere–fire modelling system was used to investigate atypical wildland fire spread on steep leeward slopes through a series of idealised numerical simulations. The simulations are used to investigate both the leeward flow characteristics, such as flow separation, and the fire spread from an ignition region at the base of the leeward slope. The fire spreadwas considered ...

Is there a need to study behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia across cultures? Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) include disorders of behavior, mood, thought content and perception (Foli and Shah, 2000). They cause distress to patients, relatives and carers, result in institutional care and long-term hospitalization, and lead to physical restraint a...

Is there a need to study behavioral and psychological signs and symptoms of dementia across cultures? Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) include disorders of behavior, mood, thought content and perception (Foli and Shah, 2000). They cause distress to patients, relatives and carers, result in institutional care and long-term hospitalization, and lead to physical restraint a...

The expression of three different gap junction transcripts, or, (Cx43), B~ (Cx39, and B2 (Cx26) was examined in several organs during pregnancy in the rat. In all of the organs that were examined-uterus, ovary, heart, and l iverthere was a strong correlation between levels of gap junction mRNA and gap junction antigens that were detected at different stages of pregnancy. A striking change in o~...

The firefly luciferase protein contains a peroxisomal targeting signal at its extreme COOH terminus (Gould et al., 1987). Site-directed mutagenesis of the luciferase gene reveals that this peroxisomal targeting signal consists of the COOH-terminal three amino acids of the protein, serine-lysine-leucine. When this tripeptide is appended to the COOH terminus of a cytosolic protein (chloramphenico...

Convection-permitting horizontal grid spacings are being used increasingly often for operational forecasting. These simulations often depict convective structures similar to those that have been observed in radar data (e.g., Kain et al. 2008). However, although some studies have suggested that there is value in how these runs depict convective modes (Weisman 2008), others have identified proble...

Mesenchymal cell migration and neurite outgrowth are mediated in part by binding of cell surface 01,4-galactosyltransferase (GalTase) to N-linked oligosaccharides within the E8 domain of laminin . In this study, we determined whether cell surface GalTase functions during neural crest cell migration and neural development in vivo using antibodies raised against affinity-purified chicken serum Ga...

Official Full-Text Publication: Early maladaptive schemas of personality disorder different types of disorders to Early Maladaptive Schemas (Waller et al., 1993. A cognitive schema can be defined as a mental representation of knowledge Cohen (1993) argued that: the concept of schema is too vague to be useful and it. psychology literature (Bassok & Holyoak, 1993, Brown & Kane, 1988, Detterman, 1...