Breast surgery is extremely stressful since women are facing the possibility of a cancer diagnosis. Even though 80% of the women will not have cancer, the breast surgery experience creates elevated levels of psychological ...

For over half a century, academic scholarship of the Babylonian Talmud (Bavli) has focused primarily on the dynamics of this work's internal textual (lower and higher criticism) and hermeneutical phenomena. This dissertation ...

The relationship of daycare quality to children's sociomoral knowledge and behavior was investigated. Caregivers' forms of verbal responses to children's sociomoral behavior was examined in relation to program quality. Six ...

This study explored the relationship between type of object and the development of object permanence. The framework for the study was Piaget's six stage theory of object concept development. Alternatives to this theory and ...

A hallmark feature of Alzheimer's disease pathology is the presence of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which are intracellular aggregates of conformationally abnormal and hyperphosphorylated tau. Tau function is important ...

Hematologic malignancies claim the lives of many people every year, yet we lack a complete understanding of the mechanisms of pathogenesis behind them. Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are a group of hematologic malignancies ...

Decision making by school psychologists was studied to determine the influence of referral information and test data as well as psychologists' age, sex, education, and experience on clinicians' diagnoses and recommendations. ...

This treatise examines the policy- and decision-making process in the secondary school system in Israel. The study considers the functioning of schools in a centralized system, and attempts to determine the leading elements ...