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Showing 1 to 20 of 1595 for “"family members"”.
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Role of Raf family members in mouse development
Raf Proteine sind Serin/Threonin Kinasen, die als zentrale Elemente des Ras, Raf, Mek, Map Kinase Wegs, an der Weiterleitung von extrazellulären Signalen von der Zellmembran zu nukleären Effektoren beteiligt sind. Auf diese Weise kontrollieren sie elementare Prozesse wie Proliferation, …
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Glioblastoma: multifaceted immunosuppression mediated through galectin family members
… Mass spectrometry data identified galectin family members in the glioblastoma secretome. ELISA assays confirmed galectin presence in GBM-derived liquid samples; immunofluorescence confirmed their presence in tumour sections, as well as the presence of T-cells, B-cells and macrophages. …
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Ambiguous Loss For Caregivers of Family Members With Dementia
This study examined the grief of spousal caregivers, specifically pertaining to how grief reactions and losses shift over the progression of the Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and how caregivers experience ambiguous loss. Five caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer’s disease or related …
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Communication In Family Members With A Rare APC Mutation
… important health information to families. Family communication about genetic testing has been studied before in other hereditary cancer syndromes and genetic conditions. These studies have identified facilitating factors and impediments to family communication. The objectives of this study …
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LIVING WITH CHILDHOOD CANCER - Family Members’ Experiences and Needs
The overall aim of this thesis was to elucidate family members’ lived experiences and needs during a child’s cancer trajectory and to describe how the illness and its treatment influence both individuals within the family and the family as a whole. Seventeen families with a child under the age of …
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The role of VIP family members in diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication of diabetes leading to blindness. Hyperglycemic/hypoxic microenvironment concurs to mechanical breakdown of blood-retinal barrier (BRB) as well as the aberrant angiogenesis activating many downstream target genes including inflammatory …
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Hospice Chaplains' Communication With Patients and Their Family Members
… chaplains work with dying patients and their family members as part of the historically valued and often mandated provision of spiritual support in hospice programs. Because hospice chaplains work with families who are facing the extremely challenging prospect of losing a family member in six …
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The Needs of Family Members of Critically Ill Patients and those the Family Members Identify as Persons who Help Them Meet Those Needs
… to:<br> 1. Determine the psychosocial needs of family members of critically ill adult patients.<br> 2. Determine who the family members perceive will assist in meeting the identified needs.</p>
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A Study of Relationships Between Family Members Using Familial Correlations
… correlations measure the resemblance between family members and are used in many fields of study including epidemiology, genetics, heredity, and psychology. Here, an analysis of familial correlations where male and female children of the same family can have different correlations in the …
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Experience of anger: Perceptions of anger in self and family members
Family emotion literature usually focuses on emotions generally, or specific emotions (sadness), often using questionnaires with parents and young children. There is little research on anger, specifically, in families and how it is experienced by family members. This research aimed to investigate …
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Biochemical Characterization of the Activity and Specificity of ULP1 Family Members
… Yeast Ulp1 is the founding member of a growing family of these isopeptidases, or deSUMOylating enzymes. Another Ulp1, XopD from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria, is expressed as a secreted virulence factor by this plant bacterial pathogen. In vitro peptidase assays were performed to …
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A qualitative exploration of family members’ experiences of paediatric chronic illness
… thesis comprises of two parts aiming to explore family members’ experiences of living with a child who has a paediatric chronic illness (PCI) and one part that also reflects on the research process. The systematic review utilised a thematic meta-synthesis approach to analyse 12 studies, …
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Family members' experiences of saturation, bonding, and leisure: a feminist perspective
… overload, may cause I of connection between family members. Leisure scholars suggets that bonding occurs during leisure, and a feminist perspective emphasizes that leisure includes conflict and inequality families. Participants were primarily White, and all were upper-middle class married …
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The effectiveness of music therapy involving family members of terminally ill patients in hospice on quality of life of the patient and stress levels of family members
Thesis (M.Mus.)--Michigan State University. Department of Music Therapy, 2007
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Portrayal of Female Family Members in Selected Works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cílem práce je analyzovat pozici žen v nigerijské rodině a odhadnout míru jejich emancipace a/nebo závislosti na mužích v nigerijské společnosti, tradičně považované za patriarchální. Práce je založena na interpretaci románů Purple Hibiscus a Half of a Yellow Sun a kolekce povídek The Thing around …
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Effects of teaching on coping behaviors of family members of schizophrenic patients
… potentially stressful situation is living in a family with a person who has a schizophrenic illness. This study was designed to investigate the effects of teaching on the effective coping behaviors of those family members. The relationship between the number of psychiatric hospitalizations of …
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Rho GTPase family members in establishment of polarity in C. elegans embryos
Cell polarity is required for asymmetric division, a mechanism to generate cell diversity by distributing fate determinants unequally to daughter cells. The establishment of polarity requires the evolutionarily conserved partitioning-defective (PAR) proteins as well as the actin cytoskeleton. In …
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Disability in South Africa : collective recourse for family members as right bearers
… affects each and every member of an affected family. This will include extended family members. Every person is entitled to rights and freedoms as stipulated in the South African Constitution and these extend to family members within an affected family. The main contribution of this study is …
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