We propose that people judge immoral acts as more offensive and moral acts as more virtuous when the acts are psychologically distant than near. This is because people construe more distant situations in terms of moral principles, rather than attenuating situation-specific considerations. Results of four studies support these predictions. Study 1 shows that more temporally distant transgression...

The purpose of this study was to explain the variability in data collected from a single-case design study and to identify predictors of communicative outcomes for children with developmental delays or disabilities (n = 4). Using SAS University Edition, we fit multilevel models with time nested within children. Children's initial levels of communication and teachers' frequency of strategy use w...

Latino immigrant families with children with disabilities experience multiple sources of oppression during their settlement process in the United States. Unfair social structures and dominant cultural values and norms and the way they influence the immigrants' personal life stories generate a cycle of oppression very difficult to break. This paper presents a case study of how a group of Latino ...

resistant hypertension in adolescents is increasing in frequency and is increasingly recognized as having significant short- and long-term health consequences. it may be seen in up to 30% of all hypertensive patients cared for. adolescents with resistant hypertension are at higher cardiovascular (cv) risk due to a long history of severe hypertension complicated by other cv risk factors such as ...

background: sunlight is the main source of vitamin d; therefore, environmental factors might have an important role in the high prevalence of hypovitaminosis d in children. this study aimed to assess the vitamin d status according to the climate of the living area in a nationally representative sample of iranian adolescents. material and methods: this nationwide cross-sectional survey was perfo...

adenoviruses (advs) types 40 and 41 are the causative agents of diarrhea in children. hence, rapid sensitive and specific detection of these viruses are of clinical importance. the customary methods such as propagation of virus in cell culture suffer from limitations. detection of immobilized amplified products in a one phase system (diapops) method has the potential to overcome these problems....

since the report from the national high blood pressure (bp) education program working group on bp in children and adolescents and the introduction of a new description called prehypertension many data have been provided on its rate of progression to hypertension, its prevalence and association with other cardiovascular (cv) risk factors and its therapy. making a diagnosis of prehypertension in ...