vii Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Review of Literature 7 Definitions of Parenting Styles 7 Scholastic Achievement 10 Authoritative Parenting 11 Permissive and Authoritarian Parenting 14 Learning Autonomy 16 Teaching Styles 19 Chapter 3: Method 26 Participants 26 Procedure 26 Instruments 27 Parental Authority Questionnaire 27 Perceptions of Parents Scales: The College-Student Scale 28 Lea...

OBJECTIVE To validate EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 questionnaires and to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of women with breast cancer in Singapore during their first 4 years of post-diagnosis and treatments. METHODS A quantitative and cross-descriptive sectional study. All of 170 subjects were recruited in a Singapore tertiary cancer center. The European Organization for...

Since there was no Portuguese questionnaire to evaluate cutaneous allodynia, which has been pointed out as a risk factor of migraine, we aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the 12 item Allodynia Symptom Checklist for the Brazilian population and to test its measurement properties. It consisted in six stages: translation, synthesis, back translation, revision by a specialist commit...

INTRODUCTION Assessing patient satisfaction could be particularly useful in Day Surgery Units, as it helps maintaining and increasing medical care demand. Moreover, it provides feedback that turns out useful for improving quality in departments, and for assessing competence and skill of the whole staff. Background and aim - The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality perceived in a da...

At row 2n in the cellular automaton rule 30, a region of the initial condition reappears on the right side, which causes the automaton to “begin again” locally. As a result, local nested structure is produced. This phenomenon is ultimately due to the property that rule 30 is reversible in time under the condition that the right half of each row is white. The main result of the paper establishes...

In the previous paper of this series, the retention characteristics of 4-methyl sterols were investigated with a view for establishing a systematic relationship between the structure of sterols and their gas chromatographic characteristics. The present report deals an extended study on 6methyl sterols prepared from cholesterol. The retention data for five 6-methyl sterols and for their derivati...

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