Background Family–school connections during the transition from preschool to primary school are crucial, as they serve bridge gap between home and learning environments. In order support children’s engagement throughout their career, more needs be understood about factors that contribute successful or difficult experiences this critical period.Purpose This case study was part of Children’s Scho...

The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts regarding structural change in family are presented. Over course United States fertility declined, educational attainment waxed, housework fell, leisure increased, jobs shifted from blue to white collar, and marriage waned. These trends also observed cross-country data. A model is developed, then calibrate...

BACKGROUND Health care systems in many countries are changing for a variety of reasons. Monitoring of community-based services, especially vaccination coverage, is important during transition periods to ensure program effectiveness. In 2005, Turkey began a transformation from a "socialization of health services" system to a "family medicine" system. The family medicine system was implemented in...

Holt-Oram syndrome (HOS) is a developmental disorder inherited in an autosomal-dominant pattern. Affected organs are the heart and forelimbs with upper extremity skeletal defects and congenital heart malformation. In this study we present three cases of HOS in the same family. In one of these three individuals we detected a transition of C to T (CTG-GTT, V205V) in exon 7 of the TBX5 gene. This ...