The family instability hypothesis has been researched among the general population as well as among African American and Mexican American populations, but not yet among Indigenous families. The purpose of this research was to examine whether experiencing separations from their caretakers (lasting at least one month), and the types of living arrangements that follow, affect Indigenous adolescent...

A real-time robotic agent that takes care of an elderly person at home will need to schedule various tasks in real time. The deadlines of its tasks are generally soft (missing a deadline by a few minutes in most cases has no serious consequences). Another characteristic is that many tasks are preferably done close to some time points instead of as soon as possible. To support such time manageme...

"The metaphor of the 'House of Europe' awakens fear of sinister homeliness: the French on the first floor, the Dutch without curtains at the windows, and a German caretaker who urges Italians to sort the rubbish properly and flush the toilet ecologically". 1 "There is no single civil right which the European Union could guarantee. Europe is a soap-box speech, a kind of fair-weather ideology."

The HIPK2 (serine/threonine homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2) is a "caretaker" gene, its inactivation increases tumorigenicity while its activation inhibits tumor growth. This report reviews the anti-tumorigenic mechanisms of HIPK2, which include promotion of apoptosis, inhibition of angiogenesis in hypoxia, prevention of tumor invasion/metastasis and attenuation of multidrug resistance...

Children who "fail to thrive" are frequently referred to occupational therapists. Yet there is no organized protocol that therapists could use to assess these children. This paper reviews criteria that distinguish organic from nonorganic "failure to thrive" and describes the occupational therapist's contribution to the evaluation process. An occupational therapy protocol is presented to facilit...