Children and Divorce Investigating Current Legal Practices and their Impact on Family Transitions

The present study was an attempt to identify the most prevailing means of digital devices and its impact as digital pollution on family and social interactions. Despite the obvious benefits of digital devices, in recent years researchers have taken more concern about its potential negative effect on human attitude and behavior, which in turn affects our society. A total of 613 usable responses were collected from Bangalore, India of excessive users of digital devices, such as a smartphone, computer/laptop, and television. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS 23.0, AMOS 23.0, and SmartPLS 3.0. The results indicated that as the use of smartphone and computer/laptop increases, levels of digital pollution also increase, which in turn significantly triggers unfavorable impact on family and social interactions. The study indicated that digital pollution appears as an important predictor, which significantly affects social interaction unfavorably. The present study explored the various critical dimensions within this domain and delineated gaps in our knowledge of digital pollution. It was found that smartphones are more responsible for digital pollution among all the identified digital devices, followed by computer/laptop.

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What's the Latest? Cultural Age Deadlines for Family Transitions

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/36.2.178 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 178-188 ◽

Cited By ~ 175

Author(s):

R. A. Settersten ◽

G. O. Hagestad

Keyword(s):

Family Transitions

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Nested plant LTR retrotransposons target specific regions of other elements, while all LTR retrotransposons often target palindromes and nucleosome-occupied regions: in silico study

Mobile DNA ◽

10.1186/s13100-019-0186-z ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Pavel Jedlicka ◽

Matej Lexa ◽

Ivan Vanat ◽

Roman Hobza ◽

Eduard Kejnovsky

Keyword(s):

Secondary Structure ◽

In Silico ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Nucleosome Occupancy ◽

Ltr Retrotransposons ◽

Sequence Composition ◽

Plant Genomes ◽

Weak Preference ◽

In Silico Study ◽

Impact On Family

Abstract Background Nesting is common in LTR retrotransposons, especially in large genomes containing a high number of elements. Results We analyzed 12 plant genomes and obtained 1491 pairs of nested and original (pre-existing) LTR retrotransposons. We systematically analyzed mutual nesting of individual LTR retrotransposons and found that certain families, more often belonging to the Ty3/gypsy than Ty1/copia superfamilies, showed a higher nesting frequency as well as a higher preference for older copies of the same family (“autoinsertions”). Nested LTR retrotransposons were preferentially located in the 3’UTR of other LTR retrotransposons, while coding and regulatory regions (LTRs) are not commonly targeted. Insertions displayed a weak preference for palindromes and were associated with a strong positional pattern of higher predicted nucleosome occupancy. Deviation from randomness in target site choice was also found in 13,983 non-nested plant LTR retrotransposons. Conclusions We reveal that nesting of LTR retrotransposons is not random. Integration is correlated with sequence composition, secondary structure and the chromatin environment. Insertion into retrotransposon positions with a low negative impact on family fitness supports the concept of the genome being viewed as an ecosystem of various elements.

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Krankenkarriere und Existenzbelastung

Zeitschrift für Soziologie ◽

10.1515/zfsoz-1976-0302 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Uta Gerhardt

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Family Relations ◽

Theory Approach ◽

Financial Cost ◽

Financial Status ◽

Time Perspectives ◽

Impact On Family ◽

Reversible Time ◽

Analytical Category ◽

Grounded Theory Approach

AbstractA sociological notion of illness is introduced which focuses on extra-medical aspects of the illness processes. As a central analytical category of the sociological notion of illness, the stress upon the individual’s social- financial status has three aspects, namely financial cost, loss or change of job, and impact on family relations. Illness forms a multidimensional career structuring a process of vague and reversible time perspectives. An exploratory study of patient careers (University of California,San Francisco Medical Centre) is described with two aims: first, to clarify the theoretical notions, and, second, to develop a method of dynamic data analysis which owes much to the „Grounded-Theory“ approach.

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