Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent arrhythmia in the world, due both to its tenacious treatment resistance, and to the tremendous number of risk factors that set the stage for the atria to fibrillate. Cardiopulmonary, behavioral, and psychological risk factors generate electrical and structural alterations of the atria that promote reentry and wavebreak. These culminate in fibrillat...

Defiance can be a powerful mechanism of protest against police oppression. At the same time, citizen defiance to authority is problematic for and cause injury both officers public. Research shows that some groups people defy more than others, often represents reaction disenfranchisement, bias unfair treatment. For example, Black Lives Matter movement has highlighted Black, First Nations peoples...

This 1-year longitudinal study examined early adolescents' (N=278, age 11-13 years) perceptions of their mother's behavior (affection, knowledge of child's activities, and psychological control) and of how they react to their mother (trust in mother, defiance, and debilitation) as predictors of self-esteem among peers. Perceived maternal affection predicted self-esteem for girls; perceived psyc...

This paper focuses on a strategy-Defensive Management-designed to assist teachers to better manage non-compliance and defiance in the classroom, with the ultimate goal of reducing disciplinary referrals and flow-on suspensions and exclusions from school. Non-compliance and defiance are behaviours that teachers find particularly challenging and, traditionally teachers have responded provocativel...

A dysfunctional family is one of the factors that can trigger children to experience defiant behavior disorders. This disorder characterized by behavior, disobedience orders, and provocative behavior. The purpose this study was determine success modification interventions in with behavioral disorders defiance conditions. uses a quantitative approach an experimental method using single case pre ...