Ego-identity status and narrative structure in retrospective accounts of parental career influence.

In this paper, the relationship between identity status categories and the experience of parental influence on career development is examined. The life stories of 11 young adults regarding significant events through which their parents influenced them were classified by narrative structure based on Gergen and Gergen's macrostructure framework. The resulting narrative types were then assessed in terms of their relationship to each participant's score on the Extended Objective Measure of Ego-Identity Status.

The electrical properties of resting and secreting pancreas.

1. The electrical properties of the resting and stimulated pancreas have been studied in the anaesthetized cat. There is an inverse relationship between the frequency of applied alternating current and the resistivity and dielectric constant of the resting pancreas.