Sentences with phrase «of role strain»

A third middle - range theory that is relevant to this current investigation is that of role strain (Burr et al., 1979).

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to measure role strain in older adult workers who were also caregivers of frail elders according to Komarovsky's role strain theory, and to determine whether different patterns of role strain exist for male worker - caregivers than females.

A comparison of role strain and coping strategies by gender and family structure among early adolescents.

Results: A factor analysis was completed, which isolated four factors of role strain.

The average level of role strain for mothers who have careers was not greatly affected.

The purpose of this study was to measure role strain in older adult workers who were also caregivers of frail elders according to Komarovsky's role strain theory, and to determine whether different patterns of role strain exist for male worker - caregivers than females.

Individuals with 5 — 10 years of practice had the greatest amount of role strain (2.43, SD 0.51, n = 60).

Use of role strain theory can assist employers and occupational therapists in developing and maintaining work environments that support not only the older employee's work performance, but participation in the role of elder caregiver as well.

CONCLUSIONS: Nine items emerged with the highest amount of role strain, such as coping with job expectations and inadequate time to meet role expectations.

Not exact matches

Among other things, Fed experts feared that, by substantially increasing the Federal Reserve's role in financial intermediation, the new facility «might magnify strains in short - term funding markets during periods of financial stress.»

While this move could easily be seen as a demotion, Mr. Hughes, a trusted confident of Ms. Redford's, will have an important role in repairing the provincial government's strained relationship with its municipal leaders — both in the large cities and rural municipalities.

A model for plasticity kinetics and its role in simulating the dynamic behavior of Fe at high strain rates

I read Mary Eberstadt's essay with great interest because, while my marriage doesn't suffer from (knock on wood, so to speak) a porn problem, it has been sorely tested by the more general problem she describes: the abandonment of traditional gender roles by the educated class and the ensuing confusions and strains when the baby arrives» that is, when the rubber hits the road.

That said, there have been strains of eastern thought which at the very least down - played the role of god or gods, eg confucianism and even buddhism.

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

Apparently, the only person acting is Brown who, backed by the organ strains of an old - time gospel song, seems to relish the role of speaking in tongues, casting out demons and slaying people in the spirit.

As the story proceeds, and as Tannhäuser is increasingly confronted with the warring sides of his character, Wagner writes the role so that the voice itself increasingly shows the deepening psychological strain that the knight suffers.

Studies also suggest a potential role for selected probiotics in atopic dermatitis prevention, and future studies will need to standardize the probiotic strain as well as amount used in a larger cohort of pregnant women in order to better assess these effects.

Diagnostic tools and data on the strains of bacteria play a huge role in making targeted treatments effective.

Today's meeting between David Cameron and German chancellor Angela Merkel offers an excellent opportunity to «reset» recently strained Anglo - German relations, as well as a chance for Cameron to set out clearly how and why both countries can support one another as their roles in Europe change to reflect the new reality of closer eurozone integration.

The big community of researchers regularly studying C. elegans had missed discovering the selfish role for a simple reason: The main lab strain of nematodes carries the selfish element, explains study coauthor Eyal Ben - David.

Just think about the stresses and strains that have always existed in the traditional roles of women: a woman's life in a typical household can be just as hard as a man's.

We need to fund modern services and take some of the strain off the NHS by creating a society where everyone has a role in promoting health,» says David Stuckler, Professor of Political Economy and Sociology, Oxford University.

Sessions at the conference covered cooperation during political strain, the roles of institutions and networks, working with shared resources, and issues in earth and environmental sciences, biology and health, and physics.

Another covers the role of transboundary science with a specific focus on Africa, and the importance of international scientific cooperation under political strain.

The paper focuses on two key molecular players in the story of influenza infection: a human protein called TRIM25, which was recently discovered to play an important role in the human immune response to flu infection; and a protein called NS1 present in all strains of the influenza A virus and shown to bind TRIM25 to keep it from doing its job.

To see what role the genes play in spore - to - spore communication, the researchers replaced the genes of one strain with those of a different group.

«With the microfluidic chip we can also answer, how bacteria communicate with each other, how they respond to stress or whether the relationship of bacterial strains plays a role in adaptation strategies,» says van Nimwegen.

«Now that we have defined the core microbiome of crown gall tumor, the next step would be to predict the role the other non-Agrobacterium strains in the crown gall based on their identity,» Gan said.

The role of specific α2AR subtypes (α2a, α2b, and α2c) was characterized with hemodynamic measurements obtained from strains of genetically engineered mice deficient in either α2b or α2c receptors.

After studying the role of this modification in hepatitis C virus, the researchers generated N6 - methyladenosine maps of several related viruses, including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever, and two strains of Zika virus.

The work also showcases the important role that NGS can play in the quality control monitoring of bacterial strain repositories around the world — to ensure that strains being used in experiments are truly what researchers think they are and to catch strain contamination when it happens.

It is the case for many other microorganisms, including pathogenic strains of Escherichia coli, in which iron plays a major role in its ability to infect the host.

In the Oct. 30 edition of Science, scientists describe strains of laboratory mice bred to test the role of an individual's genetic makeup in the course of Ebola disease.

In addition, the strain isolated from lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic had rare mutations in two viral proteins: the CDV - H protein, which binds to the host cell receptor (called SLAM CD 150) and therefore plays an important role to facilitate viral entry into host cells, and the CDV - V protein, which enables the virus to manipulate the innate immune response of the host.

«So far, no one has looked across a variety of strains of bacteria, as we have done with Staphylococcus aureus, to find these extrachromosomal phages that have potential to play an important role in disease,» says Bryan Utter a postdoc in the lab and the first author of the research published June 25 in PLoS ONE.

To see what role the body's own immune system played in fighting infection, compared with gut microbes, the team also studied two strains of mice that have impaired immune systems.

This research is important in demonstrating the crucial role that techniques including whole genome sequencing, and whole genome multi-locus sequence typing play in enabling a detailed retrospective study of outbreak and non-outbreak strains of the pathogen.

By comparing extinct CC lines to living CC strains, we conclude that a complex genetic architecture is driving extinction, and selection pressures are different on the autosomes and chromosome X. Male infertility played a large role in extinction as 47 % of extinct lines had males that were infertile.

To this aim we generated new conditional knockout mouse strains, which are currently analyzed to unravel the mechanism of a recently discovered unexpected protective role of TNFSF14 / LIGHT by our lab in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)- like mouse model.

Fluid flow is also likely to play a key role in the deposition and spatial arrangement of different strains and species within biofilms [15, 33 — 35].

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

At JBEI, in addition to her role as Vice President of the Biofuels and Bioproducts Division, Aindrila leads the Host Engineering group to develop robust scalable microbial strains that show high tolerance and productivity during biofuels and chemicals production.

In the light of a review detailing the role of these genes in the cell shape changes leading to invagination, and of recent findings showing the expression of twist as mechanically sensitive, we suggest that the expression of twist in the mesoderm could alternatively be maintained by mechanical strains developed during mesoderm invagination.

«Since two strains of the same species can have such different genomes, you really need to know what genes are there and what role they play in order to link someone's gut microbiota to BMI or disease.»

In the absence of culture based physiological analyses, the functional roles of these uncultured strains remain enigmatic despite their apparent correlations with various diseases.

ApoC - III accumulation in all mouse strains lacking hepatic HSPGs also suggests that shunting a subfraction of particles to these receptors may have a functional role.

Deletion of speC or spd1 in two Lineage C strains identified a possible role for spd1 in airborne shedding from the murine nasopharynx.

In conclusion, we found an association between slaA gene and the GAS OSAS strains, and we showed that the clone emm75 / ST49 harboring genes smeZ and slaA was exclusively isolated from patients affected by OSAS, thus suggesting that this genotype might be associated to the pathogenesis of OSAS, although further studies are needed to elucidate the possible role of SlaA in tonsil hypertrophy development.

Although waning «social disapproval» of those mothers could potentially play a role, she says, «My guess is that financial strain and child - care responsibility are more important than stigma.»