Bowlby's attachment theory: implications for health visiting.

This article reviews the current state of research in attachment theory. It also examines the relations between attachment, child care and development, and the significance of attachment to adult functioning and well-being. It seems likely that humans need close emotional relationships or bonds with others.

A multidisciplinary education project in primary care.

The Department of Health (DoH) document, 'The New NHS - Working Together' (1998b) recognizes that education and training have a crucial role to play in the development of effective interprofessional work among practitioners. The aim of this article is to provide an account of a project that has been implemented in an East London National Health Service (NHS) Primary Health Trust as well as the experience of using practice-based shared learning with a group of clinical nurse specialists and other health professionals. It outlines the beginnings of the development of the group and discusses the process of facilitating learning, which would enable practitioners to develop in-house training for their staff in clinical practice throughout the Trust.

The expression of histone 2A in onion (Allium cepa) during the onset of dormancy, storage and emergence from dormancy.

The tissue-specific and developmental expression of histone 2A was studied in onion (Allium cepa'Robusta'), using northern blots. Histone 2A expression was enriched in basal tissues, particularly in the inner, meristematically active parts of bulbs. The expression was assessed during a time course of bulb development, dormancy onset and post-harvest sprouting in field-grown material.

N-terminal domain of Avena phytochrome: interactions with sodium dodecyl sulfate micelles and N-terminal chain truncated phytochrome.

Phytochrome is the ubiquitous red light photoreceptor present in plants. Properties of the 6-kDa end terminal region of phytochrome A (PHYA from etiolated Avena) have been investigated by the use of synthetic polypeptide fragments corresponding to that region. This region of the phytochrome A protein has been viewed as a possible functional site due to the large differences in the sequence's conformation and exposure between the Pr (red light-absorbing form) and Pfr (far-red light-absorbing, gene-regulating form) species of phytochrome A.

MOMENT: software for analysis and display of amphiphilic regions in proteins.

MOMENT is a 53 kbyte program written in Borland TurboPascal with Borland Turbo Graphics, which will run on IBM PC-compatible machines. The program reads protein sequence files and calculates the hydrophobic moment of user-defined segments. The values produced can be displayed in the form of a scan through the sequence, as vector diagrams and helical wheels, as plots of hydrophobic moment versus hydrophobicity, or as hydrophobic moment as a function of angle.