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Objective: To evaluate the effects of exposure to air pollution by NOx and SO2 on the development of pulmonary function in children, characterized by different health status.
Methods: A cohort of 1181 schoolchildren from the 2nd – 5th grades was subdivided into three health status groups, according to the diagnosis given by a physician: a) healthy children; b)
children experiencing chest symptoms, and c) children with asthma or spastic bronchitis. Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs) were performed twice (in 1996 and 1999) and analyzed in
conjunction with air pollution estimates at the children's places of residence and several potential confounders – height, gender, parental education, passive smoking, housing density, length of
residence in the study area and proximity to the main road.

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 Background:Multi-electrode cranial electric stimulation (CES) with a new Biophysical Mind Technology (BMT) is a method for both non-invasive diagnosis (using 500 Microampere , 10 Hz frequency, for 10 msec) and for migraine treatment (using exposure with 100  kHz frequency, 1.0 mA and 250 msec) introduced to scalp through each pair out of 276 EEG combinations of electrode montage in 10-20 EEG applications. Such method and device objectively measures brain electrical bioimpedance units (BEBU) and induced voltage units (IVU), while all other CES lacking them.

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While the father’s influence on his offspring’s personalities and wellbeing has historically been neglected, literature on this topic has recently been
accumulating. The father’s influence is touches upon numerous practical and ethical implications for social work, psychotherapy, and psychodiagnosis. The present
study draws from Mahler’s (Mahler, Separation individuation. The selected papers of Margaret S. Mahler, 1963, 1967, 1974; Mahler et al., The psychological birth of
the human infant. Symbiosis and individuation, 1975) theory of the psychological birth of the child and offers a novel focus on the pivotal internal representation of
the father. According to this theory, hindered developmental processes lead to depression and anxiety. 130 students took part in the current study, in which the
internal father object was examined with regard to separation–individuation processes, and the levels of anxiety and depression were recorded. The study’s results
show a significant negative relation between the quality of the paternal object and levels of anxiety and depression. A theoretical model was constructed to illustrate
the similarities and discrepancies in the development of depression and anxiety in light of the father object as mediated by the separation–individuation processes that
were examined.

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