The purpose of this study was to examine the potential universality of age differences in romantic attachment. Relatively few studies have investigated attachment processes beyond young adulthood and very little is known about age differences in romantic attachment orientations in geographic regions outside North America. We examined attachment anxiety and avoidance among 90,904 Internet respon...

Adolescent suicide is now a major health concern for many countries. However, there is paucity of systematic studies and lack of official statistics on adolescent suicide in Ghana. Mass media coverage of adolescent suicide (even though crude), at least, may reflect the reality of the phenomenon. With an ecological orientation, this study used qualitative content analysis to analyse the pattern ...

At around 2040-2050 we will be in a new major Solar Minimum. It is to be expected that we will then have a new “Little Ice Age” over the Arctic and NW Europe. The past Solar Minima were linked to a general speeding-up of the Earth’s rate of rotation. This affected the surface currents and southward penetration of Arctic water in the North Atlantic causing “Little Ice Ages” over northwestern Eur...

INDIVIDUALS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE WORLD as benevolent, trustworthy, and just influence their reactions to the events that befall them and others (JanoffBulman, 1992; Lemer, 1977). Variables found to affect such beliefs include ethnicity (Calhoun & Cann, 1994) and nationality (Furnham, 1993), with gender having a weak effect (Furnham, 1985, 1993; Janoff-Bulman, 1989; Smith & Green, 1984). The rela...

Medical and Socio-economic changes in the twenty first century have turned it into a century of old age. Old age is a time of grace. Scientific and technological progress has increased lifespan to a height, unprecedented in human history. As per Census 2001, the number of older persons in 2001 was 70.6 million (6.9%) which was projected to be 83.5 million in 2006 (7.5%). As per the projections ...

OBJECTIVE The effect of ghrelin on growth of the newborn has long been argued, but not fully clarified. In this study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between ghrelin levels and growth parameters in the first 3 months of life. METHODS The study included 60 babies (27 girls and 33 boys) born at gestational ages between 38-42 weeks. The newborns were divided into three groups according...

different concepts and approaches toward god in western theology and philosophy, from greek period to modern age, has regarded from negative theology view point. but this concepts and approaches at the same time can be regarded from new perspective in modern age. in other word, it can be shown that in the modern age we can see a negative theology, i.e. refutation of resemblance between god and ...

in order to determine the age structure, growth, and length-weight relationship of the mudskipper, periophthalmus waltoni, from coastal mudflats of qeshm island, soroo and bandar-pol, in hormuzgan province, iran, we collected 192 individuals in february 2007. age was determined using the second pectoral radial bone and year class was based on length-frequency distributions. growth was descr...

this study addresses samuel beckett’s most celebrated play, waiting for godot, in an effort to analyze its characters from a novel perspective. since greek mythology has been undisputedly influential on western culture and literature, the researcher attempts to investigate a connection between greek mythology and the play. this study aims to reveal that even after more than fifty seven years of...