This study examined the interpersonal problems and central relationship patterns of Holocaust Survivors' Offspring (HSO) who were characterised by different patterns of parental communication of their parents' Holocaust trauma. Fifty-six adults born to mothers who were survivors of Nazi concentration camps and 54 adults born to parents who immigrated to Israel before 1939 with their own parents (non-HSO) were recruited randomly from an Israeli sample. While the groups did not differ in their current mental health, HSO who reported nonverbal communication with little information about their mother's trauma endorsed more interpersonal distress than HSO who experienced informative verbal communication and less af liation than either HSO who experienced informative verbal communication or non-HSO. They also differed in their central relationship patterns with their parents and spouses. The ndings are discussed in the context of the unique dynamics of growing up with the silent presence of the mother's trauma.

Establishing long-lasting romantic relationships is one of the most important issues for young adults. In developmental and cultural terms, this task is age-appropriate, and failure to establish such relationships is one of the main reasons young adults seek psychotherapy. The stress experienced by these emerging adults (Schwartzberg, Berliner, & Jacob, 1995) is attributed partly to social pressure from parents and others, partly to the risk of becoming less attractive to partners with increasing age, partly to direct social pressure from parents and others.Many of the young adults who participated in our study regarded their lack of lasting romantic relationships as a "black hole" in their life story. They had difficulty fitting it into the story they told themselves of who they are. As one of our interviewees put it, I am frustrated over the fact that my romantic relationships have never lasted more than a few months. I consider myself as being above averageThe identities of the participants in this chapter were masked.

Conclusions y the mid-1990s, jim gray had recognized that the next "big data" challenges for database technology would come from science and not from commerce. He also identified the technical challenges that such data-intensive science would pose for scientists and the key role that IT and computer science could play in enabling future scientific discoveries. The term "eScience" was coined in the year 2000 by John Taylor, when he was director general of the UK Research Councils. Taylor had recognized the increasingly important role that IT must play in the collaborative, multidisciplinary, and data-intensive scientific research of the 21st century and used the term eScience to encompass the collection of tools and technologies needed to support such research. In recognition of the UK eScience initiative, Jim Gray called his research group at Microsoft Research the eScience Group, and he set about working with scientists to understand their problems and learn what tools they needed. In his talk to the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the U.S. National Research Council in 2007, Jim expanded on his vision of data-intensive science and enumerated seven key areas for action by the funding agencies: