Studies have indicated the importance of family life and psychosocial working conditions for mental wellbeing. More recently, studies have highlighted that a good balance between work and family is crucial for good mental wellbeing. However, few stud...
(1) Background: Living with long-term conditions affects both patients and family caregivers. To obtain a more complete overview of this phenomenon, a measurement instrument is needed that includes both perspectives. The aim is to adapt a scale to fa...
8 July 2021
(1) Background: When living with one or more long term conditions (LTCs), both the patient and the family experience the impact of the condition at different levels. The family’s needs and perceptions should be considered in the process of caring for...
10 July 2025
National and international aged care frameworks recommend family-integrated care to enhance care quality and outcomes, supported by evidence demonstrating improvements in patient and clinician experiences. Yet uncertainty remains about how to integra...
Background: Lactation support is an important measure of Family-Centered Care (FCC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Life-limiting conditions (LLCs) raise complex ethical care issues for providers and parents in the NICU and represent a ke...
Location is crucial when it comes to reducing the energy demand of buildings. Deterministic mathematical models of the energy demand of a single-family building were developed for the cities of Wrocław and Suwałki, representing the mild and...
Eldercare is a major public health concern in many East Asian countries, including Japan, because of the ever-growing elderly population, and significant changes in family caregiving norms. The changes are due to global diffusion and the influence of...
Similar to her neighboring country, Japan, China faces significant difficulties in providing long-term care to the elderly. Female household members who traditionally provided necessary caregiving are no longer available as much as in the past due to...
27 June 2020
The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess physical conditions related to health status and establish relationships with influencing factors such as family structure, educational level, and parental professional occupation in the infant stag...
23 December 2022
The support from nurses perceived by family members of children with chronic conditions has been shown to be a protective factor at different levels in a family’s health. As such, nurses need to have instruments that assess this perception to i...
Steroidal glycoalkaloids (SGAs), the nitrogen-containing compounds produced primarily by Liliaceae and Solanaceae species, are toxic to animals and humans and have putative roles in defense against pests. UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs) catalyze the...
Objectives: This study analyzed the stress experienced by family caregivers of children with special healthcare needs and identified associated factors. Methods: A case–control study was conducted with the “cases” being caregivers o...
Background: Coping is a multifactorial and individual process related to responding to stressful situations, such as being a caregiver of a relative with health conditions. Spiritual/religious coping is an important internal resource used by individu...
18 June 2023
Extreme weather can cause ill health in older persons due to a direct thermal effect on the body’s thermoregulation and difficulties in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and accessing the health services they need. To understand experiences in re...
Background/Objectives: Neopyropia yezoensis is an economically important intertidal red alga that frequently experiences fluctuations in temperature, light intensity, and water availability. Formins are key regulators of actin nucleation and cyt...
Phosphate is one of the essential mineral nutrients. Phosphate transporter genes (PHTs) play an important role in Pi acquisition and homeostasis in tomato plants. However, basic biological information on PHT genes and their responses of symbiosis wit...
24 September 2026
The Family Management Measure (FaMM) assesses family management of childhood chronic conditions, but evidence on its measurement properties in Thailand is limited. This methodological study translated, culturally adapted, and evaluated the Thai FaMM...
Fractional integrodifferential diffusion equations play a significant role in describing anomalous diffusion phenomena. In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions to these equations. Firstly, we construct an appropriate re...
Background: Avocado is an important economic fruit tree that requires a lot of nitrogen (N) to support growth and development. Nitrate transporter (NRT) gene family plays an essential role in N uptake and use in plants. However, no systematic identif...
The potato is one of the most important and valuable crops in terms of consumption worldwide. However, abiotic stressors are the critical delimiters for the growth and productivity of potato. Invertase genes play key roles in carbon metabolism, plant...
The breeding of large animals in the family Cervidae in China contributes to achieving two tasks: restoring the provenance of wild populations and providing raw materials for traditional Chinese medicine. Currently, red deer (Cervus elaphus), sika de...
The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of economic capital, culture capital, social capital, social security, and living conditions on children’s cognitive ability. However, most studies only focus on the impact of family socio-econ...
The paper includes a historical analysis of real energy consumption and indoor conditions in a single-family passive building located in Warsaw, Poland. Passive houses have emerged as a sustainable alternative to the conventional construction of hous...
In the qualitative theory of differential equations in Banach spaces, the resolving families of operators of such equations play an important role. We obtained necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of strongly continuous resolving fam...
3 April 2023
Background. The resettlement and post-resettlement quality of life of refugees is often marred by chronic health/mental health conditions. To adequately care for refugees suffering these conditions, a promising strategy is the use of refugee Family H...
This paper develops a unified framework for continuous distributional characterizations based on conditional expectations of functions of a random variable. The proposed framework expresses several characterization identities through a single differe...
The high-affinity K+ transporter (HAK) family, the most prominent potassium transporter family in plants, which involves K+ transport, plays crucial roles in plant responses to abiotic stresses. However, the HAK gene family remains to be characterize...
The TGA (TGACG motif-binding factor) transcription factors are integral to root growth and development, and are pivotal in mediating plant responses to abiotic stresses. Nonetheless, their role in the nutrient absorption processes of banana plants ha...
Children in homeless families have high levels of adversity and are at risk for behavior problems and chronic health conditions, however little is known about the relationship between cognitive-emotional self-regulation and health among school-aged...
GRAS transcription factors play a crucial role in plant response to abiotic stresses. In this study, 61 members of the rice GRAS family, categorized into nine subfamilies, were identified by searching the latest genome sequence of rice. The OsGRAS ge...
RSA moduli may retain arithmetic evidence of prime-selection constraints. We analyse 22 solved formal RSA Challenge moduli (44 factors), excluding RSA-129 and treating 18 original decimal-labelled entries separately from four later bit-labelled entri...
16 November 2021
A child’s illness and hospitalization are particularly difficult and most often an unpredictable situation in a family’s life cycle. The level of stress of a parent of a hospitalized child depends on many factors, such as the psychological characteri...
Conditions on farms in the tropics can differ greatly depending on the season of the year. Characteristics such as disease prevalence, climate and availability of resources may not be constant all year around; however an acceptable level of animal we...
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is a highly nutritious crop known for its tolerance to salt stress; however, the molecular mechanisms underlying this trait remain poorly understood. This study aims to perform the in silico characterisation of calc...
The NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER (NRT1/PTR) family (NPF) plays an important role in plant nitrate absorption, distribution, and nitrogen use efficiency. Nevertheless, few reports are available regarding Eucalyptus grandis NPF genes...
Background/Objectives: When experiencing a variety of negative family events, families that, as a whole, have high family resilience maintain and improve family functioning. It is important, therefore, for nursing professionals to be able to assess f...
In Portugal, there are over 7800 children with life-limiting conditions. The context of pediatric palliative care represents a complex and distressing experience for families. Compared to parental caregivers and healthy siblings, grandparents are und...
Recent climate changes limiting the available water resources require careful sustainable water management in the cities, the locations of highest drinking water consumption and sanitary sewage and stormwater generation. Over 50% of water demand in t...
The environmental impacts and water savings of different configurations of non-potable domestic water use (toilet flushing and laundry), sourced from rainwater harvesting (RWH) and air-conditioning condensate water (ACWH), in multi-family buildings i...
Cell division is essential for the maintenance of life and involves chromosome segregation and subsequent cytokinesis. The processes are tightly regulated at both the spatial and temporal level by various genes, and failures in this regulation are as...
Portugal has been identified as the European country with the most rapid evolution of Pediatric Palliative Care provision, where approximately 7800 children have life-limiting conditions. This is a highly complex experience not only for the children...
In this paper, we investigate the existence of mild solutions to a multi-term fractional integro-differential equation with random effects. Our results are mainly relied upon stochastic analysis, Mönch’s fixed point theorem combined with a random fix...
The functional characterization of PR10 proteins has been extensively studied in many plant species. However, little is known about the role of TdPR10 in the response of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) to stress. In this study, we identified membe...
Background: INDETERMINATE DOMAIN proteins (IDDs) are a plant-specific transcription factor family, and members of this family play crucial roles in regulating growth and development as well as environmental adaptation. However, a comprehensive analys...
The AP2/ERF transcription factor family members play crucial roles in controlling plant growth and development, as well as responses to various abiotic stresses. Genome-wide identification and characterization of AP2/ERF genes has not yet been carrie...
Plant glutathione peroxidases (GPXs) are the main enzymes in the antioxidant defense system that sustain H2O2 homeostasis and normalize plant reaction to abiotic stress conditions. However, the genome-wide identification of the GPX gene family and it...
PIN-FORMED (PIN) genes play a crucial role in regulating polar auxin distribution in diverse developmental processes, including tropic responses, embryogenesis, tissue differentiation, and organogenesis. However, the role of PIN-mediated auxin transp...
Cold stress impacts woody tree growth and perennial production, especially when the temperature rapidly changes in late spring. To address this issue, we conducted the genome-wide identification of two important transcription factors (TFs), CBF (C-re...
The microbiome of animals, both in the digestive tract and in the skin, plays an important role in protecting the host. The skin is one of the largest surface organs for animals; therefore, the destabilization of the microbiota on its surface can inc...
Family caregivers of people with neuropsychiatric conditions are at risk of caregiver burden and declining health. The aims of this study were to identify the impact of caring on long-term family caregivers and their unmet needs and to explore their...
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