Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic engagement can be accounted for by the decline in traditional family structures. In this paper, we seek to c...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine preschoolers' perceptions of maternal discipline's unfairness. The participants' gender, age, SES, family intactness and sibship size were examined for their possible relevance to such perceptions. METHOD Five vignettes, describing forms of discipline the literature suggests constitute psychological maltreatment, were presented to 57 preschoolers...

Present study aimed to obtain insight into the impact of microstructure on thickening potential chickpea flours. Three different flour types (non-gelatinised open cell (NG-O), pre-gelatinised closed (PG-C) and (PG-O)) were compared. All flours clearly exhibited their own characteristic rheological behaviour. Both achieved similar viscosities in water-based systems compared potato starch, albeit...

Present study investigated the impact of flour preparation and thermal processing on headspace volatile profile aqueous suspensions three different chickpea types (non-gelatinised open cell flour, pre-gelatinised closed flour). Suspensions with non-gelatinised contained higher abundances several aldehydes, alcohols hydrocarbons, resulting from enzymatic lipid breakdown, compared to or as enzyme...

The matricellular glycoprotein SPARC (secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine), also termed osteonectin, has been found to regulate the invasive behaviour of several tumour types by interacting with basement membrane constituents. Brain invasive meningiomas are supposed to disrupt the pial-glial basement membrane. In the present study we aimed at determining the relationship of basement m...

Chloroplasts isolated from the siphonous green alga Caulerpa simpliciuscula (Turner) C.Ag. were shown to be resistant to dissolution by the nonionic detergent Teric-10 at concentrations as high as 0.3% (v/v) when treated at 0 C. There was little release of stromal enzymes under these conditions. These chloroplasts were disrupted by osmotic shock as shown by measurement of the release of both gl...