We studied the characteristics of the Hungarian version of the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS, Cohen et al., 1983) based on data from 217 persons willing to participate in a stressmanagement program (Williams LifeSkills Program). The shorter versions of the questionnaire (PSS10, PSS4) were strongly correlated (r = 0,99 and 0,93) to the original 14item questionnaire (PSS14), the internal consistenc...

BACKGROUND Chronic psychological stress is associated with detrimental effects on physical health, and may operate in part through accelerated cell aging, as indexed by shorter telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. However, not all people under stress have distinctly short telomeres, and we examined whether exercise can serve a stress-buffering function. We predicted that chronic stress would b...

Congenital Foetal Malformity (CFM) is a stress factor for pregnant women, and religiosity spirituality have an important role to play in coping with it. The aim of this study was identify the correlation between stress, as perceived by women CFM, diverse forms religious/spiritual (RSC). This cross-sectional treated hospital specializing obstetrics city Brasília, located Federal District Brazil....

Large-eddy simulation (LES) has become a widely-used method for computation of field-scale environmental flows; however, challenges remain in determining the optimal turbulence closure method. Recently, the concept of explicit filtering and reconstruction has become recognized as a means to obtain more accurate simulation results (Carati et al. 2001, Winckelmans et al. 2001, Stolz et al. 2001, ...

Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3] et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions [3], a frozen embryo [4] adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells [5] published by the National Institutes for Health were unla...

Thomson [4], et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell re...