As sickle cell anaemia (African anaemia; nieniscocytic anaemia) is a rare condition in Asia, we hope that a report on the following three active cases, as well as a number of latent cases showing the sickle cell trait, will raise considerable interest in those parts where the incidence of anaemias among the population is high and where hitherto the response to treatment has proved anything but ...

an f2 japanese quail population was developed by crossing two strains (wild and white) to map quantitative trait loci (qtl) for performance and carcass traits. a total of 472 f2 birds were reared and slaughtered at 42 days of age. performance and carcass traits were measured on all of the f2 individuals. parental (p0), f1 and f2 individuals were genotyped with 3 microsatellites from quail chrom...

Hope is a personal trait stemming from both individual and social factors, including relationships. Bearing that in mind, we tested how support quality, described terms of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction (BPNS), linked with hope dimensions agency pathways among young Italians general across those Neither Employment nor Education or Training (NEET). These associations were examined contro...

conclusions performing htp can improve hopefulness and symptoms of patients, specially addicted ones. in addition, it can prevent substance abusers from returning to drugs and leaving the treatment period unfinished. results the results showed that f value of mean scores in depression and hope post-tests of the experimental and control groups are 24.94 and 25.73, respectively, which are signifi...

Gregory of Nyssa lauded his older sister Macrina as "the common glory of our family" and acclaimed her as "the great Macrina" who had achieved the highest summit of human virtue. Indeed, in two works, the Life of Macrina and The Dialogue on the Soul and the Resurrection, he portrayed her as the ideal Christian teacher and philosopher, seeking God with her whole heart and mind.' In these two wor...

This study examines police professionalism by using Hall’s professionalism scale. Questionnaires (N = 1,953) were mailed to all municipal police departments with 50 or more sworn personnel in one southern state, producing 1,114 responses (57% response rate) from 16 participating departments. Analysis revealed that professionalism attitudes did not differ significantly among agencies. Findings a...

We study a dynamic game between a seller, a buyer (or "activist"), and a regulator. The seller decides whether to produce in a pro…t-maximizing or socially responsible way ("self-regulate"). The buyer, bene…tting from such self-regulation, decides whether to buy or not (i.e., initiate/end the "boycott"). The regulator can directly regulate production, although in a clumsy/costly way. The equili...

Servedio et al. [1], following Gavrilets [2], define a magic trait as ‘a trait subject to divergent selection and a trait contributing to non-random mating that are pleiotropic expressions of the same gene(s)’. This clarified definition is certainly helpful, but we outline here several pivotal questions for empirical research, particularly surrounding the crucial concept of effect size. The eff...