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To examine the association between oral health literacy (OHL) with sociodemographic variables and dental visitation in adults presenting to an urban emergency department (ED). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of 556 adults aged 18⁻90. Interview data from the study were used to collect s...
The objectives of this study were to examine the pattern of association between dental utilization and oral health literacy (OHL). As part of the Carolina Oral Health Literacy Project, clients in the Women, Infants, and Children’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program completed a structured 30-min in-person interview ...
We prove that groups acting geometrically on delta-quasiconvex spaces contain no essential Baumslag-Solitar quotients as subgroups. This implies that they are translation discrete, meaning that the translation numbers of their nontorsion elements are bounded away from zero.
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INTRODUCTION ::: An important objective of education is to improve clinical competence and hence confidence of students. Ample evidence on effectiveness of medical outreach programs is available but data pertaining to effectiveness of dental outreach, especially from developing countries, are still limited. The present...
UNLABELLED ::: Primary care outreach placements increasingly feature in UK undergraduate dental curricula. The profile of clinical work undertaken on placement may differ from traditional hospital-based programmes and between outreach settings. An appreciation of any differences could inform curriculum development. :::...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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The aim of this study was to investigate whether the revenues cover the costs in a pilot capitation plan, a dental insurance scheme, and to compare this capitation plan (CP) with the original fee-for-service system (FFS), in terms of the amount and type of dental care provided. Data was collected longitudinally over a ...
If dental professionals want to improve the oral health of their patients, they need to address what makes them sick: the social determinants of health. In this article, we propose a model of 'social dentistry' that shows how dentists could tackle these fundamental causes of oral disease. Socially engaged dentists cond...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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Front carrier for a motor vehicle
The invention relates to a front support (108) for a motor vehicle (100), wherein the front support (108) is in one piece and is composed exclusively of plastic.
This study was conducted to examine the caries experience of children ::: aged 6-9 years in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Overall, 1522 children were examined ::: from six primary schools located in different areas of the city. Results showed ::: that the mean dmft and DFT were 4.23 and 1.85, respectively. The mean dmft ::: an...
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“8/18/97 Bite me”: Resistance in learning and work
This article examines characterizations of resistance in learning and at work and provides an alternative interpretive position and empirical work concerning the productive role of the performance of resistance in learning and self‐development at work. Specifically in contrast with more traditional views of resistance ...
Compliance with recommended infection control practices in East Asia has not been clearly documented. To investigate changes in compliance with recommended infection control practices over a eleven-year period and to identify affecting factors, two nationwide cross-sectional surveys of dentists in Taiwan were conducted...
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Analysis of paediatric injuries related to child restraint seats: Are children at higher risk of injury outside the vehicle than inside?
The authors study pediatric head injuries and the use of appropriate child restraint seats (CRSs) in non motor vehicle crash (MVC) scenarios (i.e. use of the CRS outside the motor vehicle). In a study of Canadian data, non-MVC CRS injuries were 7 times higher than MVC CRS injuries. The most common cause of non-MVC CRS ...
Purpose – To assess what volunteers‐ and ministers of faith‐based organizations (FBO) think about their own expertise in delivering a tobacco prevention initiative, the impact of such an initiative on youth, their potential for burnout in doing so, and their interest in other health initiatives.Design/methodology/appro...
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Representative Sampling, II: Scientific Literature, Excluding Statistics
Perils and potentials of self-selected entry to epidemiological studies and surveys
Convenience samples of college students and research reproducibility
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Assessing Beliefs about and Needs of Senior Citizens Using the Focus Group Interview: A Qualitative Approach
The Use of Focus Groups in the Design of Cholesterol Education Intervention Programs
Quantitative Assessment of the Subepithelial Collagen Band Does Not Increase the Accuracy of Diagnosis of Collagenous Colitis
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The second was in the combination of case study methods with other methods, particularly surveys, in order to achieve the generalizability that evaluators called external validity.
The case study methods were combined with other methods.
The case study methods were not combined with other methods.
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In his multi-center study, interventionists felt restricted by a standard intervention, sensing that variation was needed to meet different clients' needs.
The study showed that interventionists could sense that their clients needed variation.
The study confirmed that a standard intervention was suitable for everyone.
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Exhibit 15 presents the mean estimate of avoided health effects in 2010 and 2020 for each health endpoint included in the Base analysis.
The mean estimate of avoided health effects in 2010 and 2020 is presented by exhibit 15.
The mean estimate of avoided health effects in 2010 and 2020 is presented by exhibit 19.
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The second was that we may have difficulty selling alcohol interventions because they are in competition with other types of interventions such as helmet use, seat belt use, or smoking prevention.
Alcohol interventions are in competition with other types of intervention.
Alcohol intervention is a huge priority.
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Factors to be explored range from practitioner behavior and practice guidelines to policy changes that are needed to facilitate implementation of screening and intervention in these settings.
Factors to be explored range from practitioner behavior and practice guidelines
Factors to be explored don't range from practitioner behavior and practice guidelines
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No studies have compared different types of intervention providers in These settings.
Studies have not compared intervention providers.
Many studies have been done to compare.
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Asess compliance and control effectiveness.
Evaluate control and compliance effectiveness.
Omitt the assessment of control and control effectiveness.
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developing information on the risks associated with evolving practices,
You must develop information on the risks of practices that evolve.
You must ignore information on the risks of practices that evolve.
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This research is crucial as the field progresses from evaluating efficacy in research settings to examining effectiveness in the current, complex health care delivery system.
This research is crucial as the field progresses from evaluating efficacy
This research isn't crucial as the field progresses from evaluating efficacy
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Goals for this treatment are articulated by the client and can include reduction as well as abstinence from alcohol.
Goals for the treatment are set by the client.
Clients are not able to set their own goals.
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In addition to an interest in the program, potential users may have an ability to influence the conduct of the program.
Users can have an influence the conduct of the program.
Potential users have no affect on the program at all.
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When we adapt proven interventions to new settings, we change many factors so we need to have an RCT.
When proven interventions and modified for new settings, many factors are changed.
An RCT is completely pointless when adapting proven interventions to new settings.
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One of the goals of the Substance Abuse Interest Group of SAEM was to authorize a substance abuse category for abstracts and sessions at the annual meeting.
There were some goals set by the SAEM group.
There was only one goal set during the meeting.
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Multiple, feasible referral options that vary in intensity and scope should be available as part of the intervention.
As part of the intervention, a variety of feasible referrals should be open.
There should only be one feasible referral option available.
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The impact of screening on referral and intervention, as well as outcomes such as reduced risk behaviors, must be demonstrated.
We must show the overall impact of intervention.
We do not know the impact of screening on referral and intervention.
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Without screening, there cannot be much intervention.
It is hard to have intervention without screening.
Intervention do not depend on screening.
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Reconceptualizing Efficacy in Substance Use Prevention Research: Refusal Response Efficacy and Drug Resistance Self-Efficacy in Adolescent Substance Use
THE FEAR MANAGEMENT MODEL: BUILDING AN INTEGRATIVE FEAR APPEAL THEORY THROUGH SYSTEM DYNAMICS
The reflexive imperative among high-achieving adolescents
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Evaluating occupational health nursing units in Bangkok textile factories: exploring the world through international occupational health programs.
Factors Predicting the Provision of Smoking Cessation Services Among Occupational Health Nurses in Thailand
Factors Predicting the Provision of Smoking Cessation Services Among Occupational Health Nurses in Thailand
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This study examines the perceptions of 163 White family counselors who reported their overall impressions of family functioning in response to a fictitious case report. On the intake summary, the family was identified as either Latino or White. Aside from the names used for family members, the cases were identical. Par...
Objective: This paper examines the dimensionality and factorial invariance of the Chinese Family Assessment Instrument (C-FAI) using multigroup confirmatory factor analyses (MCFAs). Method: A total of 3,649 students responded to the C-FAI in a community survey. Results: Results showed that there are five dimensions of ...
Despite declines over recent years, youth tobacco and other substance use rates remain high. Latino youth are at equal or increased risk for lifetime tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drug use compared with their white peers. Family plays an important and influential role in the lives of youth, and longitu...
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BackgroundMental health has been integrated in the primary health care program in small cities and villages of Iran in a national level since the late 1980s. We performed a systematic review of literature to investigate the effect of education on change in attitude and knowledge of mental health care providers and the ...
Background: After the establishment of Primary Health Care (PHC) program in Iran, health indicators have improved every year. This progress was so rapid that a number of shortcomings and weaknesses of the PHC program remained silent behind its successes. This study aimed to assess the status of Iran’s PHC system (stren...
The phenomenon of job satisfaction generates high costs for organizations, as it impacts on the processes of selection, training, and motivation of their human resources, while affecting the produc...
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Background: Despite the great efforts done by the government, there has been an increase in the number of people adopting smoking habit, among them health care professionals. Objectives: The aims of this work are 1) to assess the attitudes, behaviors, and risk perceptions among primary health care providers in the ambu...
AIM ::: The aim of the study was (1) to explore the baseline beliefs and practices of accredited social health activist (ASHA) workers of Khurda district of Orissa with respect to tobacco cessation and (2) to assess whether a brief intervention will be effective in improving the beliefs and practices of ASHA workers. T...
We prove that groups acting geometrically on delta-quasiconvex spaces contain no essential Baumslag-Solitar quotients as subgroups. This implies that they are translation discrete, meaning that the translation numbers of their nontorsion elements are bounded away from zero.
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The government is pushing to get more people aged 40 to 74 years to undergo health checks after finding patchy implementation of its policy and uptake rates of around just 50%. ::: ::: However, specialists in public health are concerned that the checks are ineffective and may lead to unnecessary tests and treatment. ::...
BACKGROUND ::: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally. However, many individuals are unaware of their CVD risk factors. The objective of this systematic review is to determine the effectiveness of existing intervention strategies to increase uptake of CVD risk factors screening. ::: ::: :::...
This second edition is throughly revised and corrected to take account of the many changes in the subject over the last 6 years, and has been enlarged by over 20per cent.
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National health-care costs are continuing to climb and employers in Hawaii and across the nation are forced to increase their share of the burden. To limit these costs, worksite health promotion programs are increasing in number and in scope. Smoking control programs in particular now rank as the most prevalent type of...
PURPOSE ::: To investigate the association between perceived stress and illness-related work absenteeism. ::: ::: ::: DESIGN ::: A standardized health profile questionnaire developed by Johnson & Johnson Advanced Behavioral Technologies, Inc., was used to collect demographic and personal health data between June 1988 a...
Students in Brazil, China, Sweden, and the United States were compared as to how they responded to a 2-stage conditional probability problem. In each culture, there was not only a significant tendency to stick with an initial decision when they should stick, but also to stick when they should switch. On this type of pr...
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Background ::: Little is known regarding the epidemiology of drug injection and risk behaviors among injection drug users (IDUs) across India. In particular, there is limited data on the prevalence of stimulant injection.
Substance use has been present in India since many millennia, and the type and pattern of substances being abused have seen changes over time. In the review, we look at the traditional recreational substance and then describe the newer and emerging recreational drugs in India.
We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate behavioral HIV risk reduction interventions targeting people who inject drugs. We included 37 RCTs evaluating 49 independent HIV risk reduction interventions with 10,190 participants. Compared to controls, intervention participants reduced ...
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Determinants of Intentions toward Smoking Hookah in Iranian Adolescents Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict implementation of harm reduction strategies among MDMA/ecstasy users.
An utter refutation of the ‘Fundamental Theorem of the HapMap’
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Antisocial behaviors take place in a primarily social context and are usually aversive to others. These heterogeneous behavior problems probably represent some of the most important impediments to deinstitutionalization and adaptation to community living for retarded persons. Surprisingly little is actually known about...
A recent paper by Foxx and Shapiro (1978) used a nonexclusionary timeout procedure to reduce inappropriate behaviors in a mentally retarded population. The present study was designed to replicate these findings, to examine the utility of modifying the basic reinforcement schedule of the original study, and to demonstra...
In a contemporary business environment where change is often regarded as continuous, the ability of people or organizations to be able to successfully adapt and respond to change is key. Change oft...
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More than 10 years after the introduction of immigrant integration policies in Western Europe, policy debates have shifted from conceptual issues (What is integration? When is an immigrant integrated into a society?) to the effectiveness of integration policies (Do integration policies help immigrants to find jobs, lea...
There are many psychosocial interventions for children and adolescents. The effects of these interventions in day-to-day practice are nevertheless often unclear. Researchers typically take the randomized controlled trial (RCT) as the "gold standard" for the supply of evidence regarding the effectiveness of an intervent...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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This article describes deer hunters' profiles and assesses the applicability of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in predicting deer hunting intentions. Model assessment was performed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The TPB model successfully predicted hunting intentions. Perceived behavioral control (PBC)...
A mail survey ( n = 395) assessed perceived benefits of outdoor recreation activities. Based on the theory of planned behavior, the study revealed that hunters, wildlife viewers, and other outdoor recreationists differ greatly in terms of their beliefs about the outcomes of these behaviors and in terms of their attitud...
The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has received considerable attention in the literature. The present study is a quantitative integration and review of that research. From a database of 185 independent studies published up to the end of 1997, the TPB accounted for 27% and 39% of the variance in behaviour and intenti...
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Part I. Learning the Foundations of Outdoor Education Chapter 1. What Is Outdoor Education? Chapter 2. Describing the Professional Outdoor Educator Chapter 3. Explaining Theories in Outdoor Education Part II. Preparation for Teaching Chapter 4. Understanding Your Participants Chapter 5. Creating the Learning Environmen...
The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics developed the Promoting Environmental Awareness in Kids (PEAK) program to teach children the seven Leave No Trace principles. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the PEAK program. A significant increase was found between the pre-test (M = 3.41, SD = ...
The Guide to Community Preventive Service's methods for systematic reviews were used to evaluate the effectiveness of various approaches to increasing physical activity: informational, behavioral and social, and environmental and policy approaches. Changes in physical activity behavior and aerobic capacity were used to...
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Several countries use capability assessments as a part of their efforts to manage risk. However, it is unclear how such assessments are connected to other risk management activities, e.g. risk assessment. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to present a study of how capability assessment is related to risk asses...
The paper motivates, presents, demonstrates in use, and evaluates a methodology for conducting design science (DS) research in information systems (IS). DS is of importance in a discipline oriented to the creation of successful artifacts. Several researchers have pioneered DS research in IS, yet over the past 15 years,...
I consider the importance of scientific risk assessment as optimal basis for socially sound risk management decisions. The health professional has both risk assessment and risk management responsibilities; the functions are conceptually separate and governed by separate criteria: scientific for risk assessment and soci...
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As researchers, designers, operators, and managers of complex, high-risk operations, we share an interest in human performance tools that can help us assess and manage risk. Through effective risk management, we seek to achieve the highest levels of operational and personal safety as a top priority. At the same time, h...
Preface. Basic Risk Concepts. Accident Mechanisms and Risk Management. Probabilistic Risk Assessment. Fault-Tree Construction. Qualitative Aspects of System Analysis. Quantification of Basic Events. Confidence Intervals. Quantitative Aspects of System Analysis. System Quantification for Dependent Events. Human Reliabil...
To investigate the roles of 3 types of alienation; powerlessness hopelessness and social isolation as barriers to the utilization of health services 806 low income mothers from three Los Angeles neighborhoods were interviewed about the preventive health care they received. Alienation has a minimal effect on the dental ...
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Background. Tobacco companies are focusing their interest in less developed countries. In the absence of governmental opposition, physicians are expected to lead tobacco control efforts. We studied Colombian medical students' smoking prevalence and tobacco attitudes. ::: ::: Methods. First- and fifth-year students from...
BackgroundPhysician-delivered preventive counseling is important for the prevention and management of chronic diseases. Data from the U.S. indicates that medical students with healthy personal habits have a better attitude towards preventive counseling. However, this association and its correlates have not been address...
Blunt trauma abdomen rarely leads to gastrointestinal injury in children and isolated gastric rupture is even rarer presentation. We are reporting a case of isolated gastric rupture after fall from height in a three year old male child.
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Cathy A. Roheim is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881 USA (email: crw@uri.edu). The author acknowledges funding from King’s Seafood Company and Rhode Island Sea Grant and assistance from Michelle Armsby, graduate research a...
This article investigates the impact of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification on a Japanese certified fishery. In September 2008, the MSC first certified the Kyoto Danish Seine Fishery Federation (KDSFF) as a sustainable fishery in Asia. In order to examine any impact of MSC certification on the KDSFF, this st...
The purpose of this study was to examine two theories of HIV disclosure. The first is a disease progression theory and the second is the theory of competing consequences. Participants were 138 HIV-positive gay men involved in a larger study of HIV disclosure. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze each model,...
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Farmers are increasingly asked to pay for agricultural research and extension (ARE) services in many developing countries. Although, farmers participate diversely in funding these services, their motivation is rarely sustainable. This paper addresses the question whether this financial participation is the reflection o...
Self-efficacy, Bandura's concept of a central cognitive mediating belief, has been widely researched and found to play an important role in the initiation, persistence, and achievement of a variety of behaviors. Self-efficacy can be viewed as one aspect of expectancy-value theory, but little research has been conducted...
The existence of a winning strategy in the well-known Banach-Mazur game in a completely regular topological space X is proved to be equivalent to the generic existence of solutions of optimization problems generated by continuous functions in X
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While collaborative change models are gaining momentum in human services, more needs to be known about those leading the changes in a contemporary context. The professional experiences of those who work among diverse, fragmented, even rival factions, often without formal authority, and manage to facilitate cross-system...
Juvenile drug court (JDC) programs are an increasingly popular option for rehabilitating juvenile offenders with substance problems, but research has found inconsistent evidence regarding their effectiveness and economic impact. While assessing client outcomes such as reduced substance use and delinquency is necessary ...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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When countries do business with each other, be it through trade or investments, they expose themselves to foreign culture, behaviour and values (cultural traits). Previous research has shown that e ...
In global business, business organizations and their representatives frequently encounter corruption and may be the perpetrators, victims, or simply participants in such acts. While international corruption has existed in multiple forms for several years, many individuals, companies, nations, and international organiza...
Health is a human right. Equity in health implies that ideally everyone should have a fair opportunity to attain their full health potential and, more pragmatically, that no one should be disadvantaged from achieving this potential. Addressing the multi-faceted health needs of ethnically and culturally diverse individu...
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Increasingly, health organisations and governing bodies in developed countries are paying serious attention to the problem of adult inactivity. Many of the programs designed to increase levels of activity, particularly amongst target populations, such as women, have not been systematically assessed for their effectiven...
The majority of research on factors associated with women participation in physical activity (PA) has been in developed countries with limited research in developing countries. Few women in Malaysia are active at the recommended levels for health, and activity rates are less than developed countries. Little research ha...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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This paper presents the comments of authors Lawrence Green and Marshall Kreuter on the emerging Guide to Community Preventive Services of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services from a health promotion perspective. In terms of the framework, the authors discerned a shift of behavior from its previous position o...
The gap between research and practice is well documented. We address one of the underlying reasons for this gap: the assumption that effectiveness research naturally and logically follows from successful efficacy research. These 2 research traditions have evolved different methods and values; consequently, there are in...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Chinese adolescents toward smoking, giving up smoking, and smoking cessation programs presently available. The study was a qualitative study carried out in 2002 by focus groups of 32 male secondary school students in Hong Kong who were either current smokers or ...
Background: Rapid development of information and communications technology (ICT) during the last decade has transformed biomedical and population-based research and has become an essential part of many types of research and educational programs. However, access to these ICT resources and the capacity to use them in glo...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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INTRODUCTION ::: In 2002, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute partnered with the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA's) Bureau of Primary Health Care and Office of Rural Health Policy to address cardiovascular health in the US-Mexico border region. From 2003 through 2005, the 2 agencies agree...
Physical activity (PA) public health programming has been widely used in Mexico; however, few studies have documented individual and organizational factors that might be used to evaluate their public health impact. The RE-AIM framework is an evaluation tool that examines individual and organizational factors of public ...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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BACKGROUND ::: FEM-PrEP-a clinical trial of daily, oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for HIV prevention among women in sub-Saharan Africa-did not show a reduction in HIV acquisition because of low adherence to the study pill. We conducted a follow-up study to identify reasons for nonadherence. ::: ::: ::...
Oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF) has been evaluated as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). We describe the accuracy of self-reported adherence to FTC/TDF and pill counts when compared to drug concentrations in the FEM-PrEP trial. Using drug concentrations of plasma tenofovir (TFV) and intracellul...
This memo specifies CPIM Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) as a ::: common presence data format for CPIM-compliant IM/Presence protocols.
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We present a determinant quantum Monte Carlo study of the competition between instantaneous on-site Coulomb repulsion and retarded phonon-mediated attraction between electrons, as described by the two-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model. At half filling, we find a strong competition between antiferromagnetism (AFM) and ...
We study the interplay between the electron-phonon (e-ph) and on-site electron-electron (e-e) interactions in a three-orbital Hubbard-Holstein model on an extended one-dimensional lattice using determinant quantum Monte Carlo. For weak e-e and e-ph interactions, we observe a competition between an orbital-selective Mot...
BackgroundThis paper evaluates the effect of the World Starts With Me (WSWM), a comprehensive sex education programme in secondary schools in Uganda. The aim of the present study was to assess the effects of WSWM on socio-cognitive determinants of safe sex behaviour (delay; condom use and non-coercive sex).MethodsA sur...
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The rapid growth of student loan debt has led to increased public attention on college students' financial aid and financial behaviour. This study addresses the psychological process underlying effective college student financial behaviour and its determinants. A model modified based on planned behaviour theory is prop...
In this study, 312 respondents were asked to indicate their attitude toward smoking and their smoking behavior. Attitudes were assessed by a direct attitude measure (4 items) and a series of 15 belief statements about the possible consequences of smoking. Next, respondents were asked to select the 3 consequences they f...
Berzelius failed to make use of Faraday's electrochemical laws in his laborious determination of equivalent weights.
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Understanding the behaviors and attitudes of at-risk populations is fundamental to controlling the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The problem of nonresponse among these populations, however, plagues survey research designed to address these issues. Previous work undertaken to map out the dynamics of nonresp...
Summary ::: ::: Two parallel forms of a questionnaire were individually administered to 20 adult male heroin users, administrations being separated by 10–14 days. The first questionnaire was administered by a locally-known heroin user; the second questionnaire was administered by a ‘straight’ interviewer. The two forms...
A linear-quadratic N-pursuer single-evader differential game is considered. The evader can observe all the pursuers but pursuers have limited observations of themselves and the evader. The evader implements the conventional feedback Nash strategy and the pursuers implement Nash strategies based on a novel concept of be...
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Lack of patient compliance with health recommendations is a well known fact. What is less well understood are the reasons why. This study used the Health Belief Model (HBM) to investigate the role of patients' health beliefs in patient compliance with preventive dental advice. A questionnaire was constructed to explore...
Oral healthcare providers have a clinical opportunityfor early detectionofdisorderedeating behaviors because they are often the first health professionals to observe overt oral and physical signs. Curricula regarding early recognition of this oral/systemic medical condition are limited in oral health educational progra...
The results presented in this paper originate from an EU research project that is near toits completion. The goal was to build a model that can be applied to all industrial sites inthe Mediterranean area. The approach followed to achieve the objectives was to study allthe new technologies and systems that, if applied g...
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Purpose – To explore some of the factors that could obstruct the implementation of the sustainability initiatives in higher education institutions as a way for assisting key players to improve the effectiveness of their potential or current sustainability initiatives and being ready for the United Nations Decade of Edu...
Purpose ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: This paper aims to describe the effects of 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) waste management initiatives on a campus community. It ascertains the environmental attitudes and opinions of the residents and investigates their behavioral responses to waste management initiatives. Practical implica...
The article discusses the incorporation of individuals’ assessments regarding the effect of intervention program on themselves as a source of information in commonly used quantitative program evalu...
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In this paper, first manufacturing scheduling is briefly discussed and later the problem studied is introduced. The optimal solution to minimizing the average flow time in single machine scheduling is obtained by the Shortest Processing Time rule if ready times are zero for all jobs. In the case of non-zero ready times...
The image segmentation is often an important step in the analysis of images. In this paper, an image segmentation method based on cultural algorithms is presented. The method performs the image segmentation by selecting the optimal threshold values. The multi-threshold values are used. First of all, an entropy function...
Pleasure-seeking plays a role in prevention (means choices and use), and in the sexual quality of life of men who have sex with men (MSM). Since HIV is a major threat to MSM health, new means of prevention, like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), must meet the needs of MSM to be fully efficient. Using a psychosocial appr...
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What are the main inefficiencies in trial conduct? A survey of staff at registered clinical trials units
Results There were 43 respondents from 25 registered CTUs; one third were trial managers. From grant award to first participant R&D approvals were reported as a top inefficiency by 23 respondents, contracts by 22 and other approvals by 13. Site selection, feasibility, piloting at site, and site training were also issue...
Nowadays by formation of virtual communities, people support public services by sharing their own information and experiences. This article used the information of a Persian website in which the question and answer cycle takes place. In this research was used content validity. This research was utilized participant obs...
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Cost Documentation of School Nursing Follow-up Services
: The cost of nursing services was documented as part of a grant to study the effect of school nursing follow-up on the outcome of dental screening. Eleven nurses participated in the study with experimental (n = 287) groups of fifth and sixth grade students from a large West Coast school district who were screened for ...
Proceeding from the necessity of strengthening the informatinization building of the Party school's learner status archives, this paper analyzes the major problems that exist in the management of the current Party school's learner status archives and puts forwards some ways to push ahead the informationization building...
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Behavioral and cognitive effect of theophylline: a dose-response study.
The behavioral and cognitive effects of theophylline were studied in 14 asymptomatic asthmatic children. A double-blind crossover design was used with two dosage levels. Conners parent ratings suggest behavioral improvement by the second week of treatment, regardless of dosage or order of administration. No effects wer...
Plastics have much to offer as a modern convenience, but lack of responsible plastic waste management habits can lead to potentially harmful environmental effects. Past environmental initiatives revealed a lack of understanding about youth attitudes towards pro‐environmental issues. [minus]plastic, an online public env...
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How efficacious, caring samaritans cope when their help is rejected unexpectedly
This experiment, with 167 introductory psychology subjects, successfully replicated and extended to a wider array of affective, evaluative, and cognitive reactions, previous research on how would-be helpers cope when their help is rejected. It again supported the thesis that violation of perceived expectancy of accepta...
Nowadays by formation of virtual communities, people support public services by sharing their own information and experiences. This article used the information of a Persian website in which the question and answer cycle takes place. In this research was used content validity. This research was utilized participant obs...
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Academic-related stress among private secondary school students in India
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence of academic stress and exam anxiety among private secondary school students in India as well as the associations with socio-economic and study-related factors. Design/methodology/approach – Participants were 400 adolescent students (52 percent male) from ...
The primary purpose of the study is to find out the socio-economic demographic and health variables influencing the family planning acceptance in the thirty newly formed districts of Orissa. The study seeks to answer the following questions. What is the dominant set of variables influencing the family planning performa...
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Shoppers Drug Mart study to test transitional care model
Canada's Shoppers Drug Mart is conducting a pilot project to help patients avoid medication errors and reduce hospital readmissions.
This paper discusses eight projects that were conducted by students over a one-month period at a large amusement park. Many of the findings of the students resulted from their insights having worked in a specific area for a short time and having collected data intensively over a one-week period. The base case simulatio...
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Analysis of Students Health Condition in Our University
Abstract According to the national standard of students’ health, the health condition of university student should be tested once every academic year. The health condition is expressed by the data of a series of items, including height, weight, vital capacity, standing long jump, grip strength and sit-and-reach. This p...
During Pierre's assignment to the medical unit, he gives a patient a risk assessment for falls and advises him how to prevent accidents of this kind.
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Tobacco diseases and their control.
Describes different types of diseases that threaten tobacco crops, and methods for their control.
This article introduces and summarizes the problems existing in the work of community health education in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.Then it puts forward the corresponding countermeasures and advices to provide reference for enhancing community health education of Xinjiang Production and Construction Co...
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Synergistic effects of exposure to concentrated ambient fine pollution particles and nitrogen dioxide in humans
Context: Exposure to single pollutants e.g. particulate matter (PM) is associated with adverse health effects, but it does not represent a real world scenario that usually involves multiple pollutants.Objectives: Determine if simultaneous exposure to PM and NO2 results in synergistic interactions.Materials and methods:...
The current research situations were analyzed briefly,and its definition and the analysis frame were commented.The vulnerability of the Baishuijiang national nature reserve was analyzed especially.It was pointed out that the policy factor,position factor,market factor were the main reasons to cause the peripheral commu...
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Proportional hazards model for interval-censored failure times and time-dependent covariates: application to hazard of HIV infection of injecting drug users in prison
Interval-censored survival data are data in which the failure times are not known precisely, but are known to lie within an interval. Such data can be analysed using a proportional hazards model with piecewise-exponential baseline hazard, a model which can be fitted by an EM algorithm easily programmed in standard stat...
It explores patients' bad hospitalization behaviors in view of moral responsibility,and uses factor analysis to analyze those data.The result shows that six dimensions of patients' bad hospitalization behaviors were retained,that is,harmful behavior to hospital,benefiting behavior,harmful to other people,breaking-rule ...
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Modest risk-sharing significantly reduces health plans’ incentives for service distortion
Public payers often use payment mechanisms as a way to improve the efficiency of the healthcare system. One source of inefficiency is service distortion (SD) in which health plans over/underprovide services in order to affect the mix of their enrollees. Using Israeli data, we apply a new measure of SD to show that a mi...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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Problems and countermeasures of environmentally conscious supply chain management of China's textile and clothing industry
This paper discusses the green supply chain management of China′s textile and clothing industry in terms of its characteristics,current status and existing problems,precautions concerning logistics,information system and cash flow,and the impact from the government,industry and enterprises.It argues that the management...
The majority of opiate-dependent patients in substitution treatment show additional substance-related disorders. Concomitant use of heroin, alcohol, benzodiazepines or cocaine compromises treatment success. Concomitant drug use may be treated by using contingency management (CM) which is based on learning theory. In CM...
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Cumulative Risk and Impact Modeling on Environmental Chemical and Social Stressors
Background: A growing literature has emerged in recent years that evaluates combined health effects of environmental exposures and social stressors. To identify and incorporate the potential impact...
ABSTRACTResponsibility center management (RCM) budgeting systems devolve budget responsibility while creating funding formulas that provide incentives for academic units to generate revenues and decrease costs. A growing number of public universities have adopted RCM. The desire to grow tuition revenue has often been c...
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Simply Discuss Teaching and Learning in Statistic Courses
The main problem existing in statistic teaching is that statistic teaching breaks away from practical use, in which the students majoring can not meet the demand of the society. Students learn it with difficulties, and teachers teach it with difficulties, too. Therefore, in the present statistic teaching, the teaching ...
Purpose – Within the context of policies on developing the workforce of the government health sector in England, this paper aims to investigate participation in work‐related continuing education and training (WRCET), its pedagogy and effectiveness. Individual and organizational characteristics associated with effective...
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An examination of professional services quality as a mediator between interpersonal communication and repurchase intention
This study examines the role of service quality (SQ) as a mediator between interpersonal communications and repurchase intention in the context of the relationship an individual client has with their personal financial adviser. A new multidimensional scale for interpersonal communications is developed and tested. Three...
THE PURPOSE of this article is to express a personal viewpoint that might be useful in designing policies to improve the health of the American population. Emphasis will be placed on the uninsured. The viewpoint is based on my experience and research findings from a series of studies that had the following objectives: ...
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Utilizing Parent Report to Investigate Young Children's Fears: A Modification of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children‐II: A Research Note
The Fear Survey Schedule for Children-II (FSSC-II) (Gullone & King, 1992) was modified for parent report and a younger age group. The modified instrument (FSSC-IIP) was completed by 753 parents of children within the age range 3.0 to 8.9 years. Results revealed a stable eight-factor solution that was sensitive to age a...
R&D budget has been recently increased rapidly by our government's direction under the recognition that strong R&D policy lead to the wealth of the nation. The methodologies for effective evaluation have received great attention was increased. We had established the laws to evaluate and man age the performance of natio...
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Risk Aversion Tendency and Merger Incentive in IT Industry
By concentrating on the tech gain oriented merger between a big firm and a small firm in IT industry, this paper, using the game theory and the risk preferences hypothesis, discussed the merger incentive effect from the difference of the two firms' risk aversion tendency. The result shows that the difference of the ris...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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Immune Response of Rats to Peste Des Petits Ruminant (PPR) Vaccination
Abstract Ezeibe, M.C.O., Eze, J.I., Ukomadu, N.M., Chukwu, O.S., Eze, I.C., Okoroafor, O.N., Ugonabo, J.A.C., Ngene, A.A., Sanda, M.E. and Ijabo, O. 2010. Immune response of rats to Peste des Petits Ruminant (PPR) vaccination. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 37: 239–240. Rats were used as animal models to study immune response to...
we examine motivations for, and costs/benefits of, participation in three interviews across a one-year period among women recently exposed to intimate partner abuse (IPA). Recruited from publicly accessible police reports, women were not informed that the study focused on IPA in recruiting materials or when they schedu...
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Perception and translation of numbers: the case of a health campaign in Denmark
AbstractThis article explores the translation of numeric health communications from the authorities to ordinary citizens. Based on qualitative interviews and document analysis, it follows the life of a Danish health campaign called ‘6 a day’ from its initiation to its dissemination, and finally to its place in the perc...
In this article the hedonic regression technique is used to estimate the value of traffic safety, using information from the Swedish market for automobiles. The results from the study show that the market price of an automobile is negatively correlated with its inherent risk level, i.e. Swedish car consumers pay a safe...
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Longitudinal Tracking and Retention in a School-Based Study on Adolescent Smoking: Costs, Variables, and Smoking Status
Methods used to track a cohort of Grade 6 students through Grades 8 and 11, and costs involved for survey completion in school and by mail for ever and never smokers from the original group are detailed. At baseline, 1,598 students in Scarborough, Canada, completed a questionnaire on smoking, drinking, and health, and ...
We examine the antecedents of customer satisfaction in the restaurant sector, paying particular attention to perceived value and price level. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, we extract latent topics from the text of Yelp! reviews, then analyze the relationship between these topics and satisfaction, measured as the d...
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The Effect of Reciprocal-Teaching Strategy on Learning Outcomes and Attitudes of Qassim-University Students in "Islamic Culture".
The main intent of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of the reciprocal-teaching strategy in learning outcomes and attitudes of Qassim-University students in Islamic culture. The study was conducted in Oqlat Al-Soqour Faculty of Sciences and Arts for paucity of research conducted in such a faculty, ...
Abstract Researchers studying relapse for an addictive behavior have employed two different conceptual models. Researchers concerned with typologies of relapse situations have developed a variety of discrete classes of high risk situations. Researchers who have employed a Self-efficacy approach have typically assessed ...
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Physical and verbal abuse, work demands, training and job satisfaction amongst aged-care employees in the home and community sector
ABSTRACTWhile the aged-care workforce undertakes a core societal role, it is a job with some challenges including working with difficult clients. This study focuses on physical and verbal abuse of aged-care employees in the home and community sector, and its relationship with work demands, training and employee outcome...
For the consumers of worksite meal program, its program is a chance to aware, know and deepen their knowledge and attitudes towards nutrition and health. In addition, it is a chance to communicate with their colleagues and to take a rest. On the other hand, for managers, it is necessary to promote worksite meal managem...
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Explore and analyze the structure physical commitment model
Base on the sociology,psychology,sport and so on,this article elaborated and analyzed the theoretic structure of Chinese Physical Commitment through literature review,opening interview and so on,then put forward the theoretic structural model of Chinese Physical Commitment for further research.
SUMMARY Religious support systems offer much promise for collaborative interventions with alcohol and other drug abuse organizations. This article presents a case study of an asset assessment of eleven Puerto Rican Pentecostal churches in a New England community and the alcohol and other drug abuse and other types of s...
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Exploring the Relationship between Health Aging and Health Services Utilization
To explore the relationship between health aging and health services utilization,so as to provide effective health services and develop reasonable health strategy.Demography theory and epidemiological technique were used to analyze health status,requirement and utilization of health services of people who were 60 years...
Purpose: This study examined the impact of medical education on students’ views of substance abuse treatment, public policy options and training.Method: A longitudinal survey was conducted on a single-class cohort of 101 students in a major American, urban medical school. The survey was administered in the Spring semes...
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National Policy on Safety, Health and Environment at Workplace
The National Policy on Safety, Health and Environment at Work Place was declared by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India in February 2009 after consultations with partners. The Action Programme to implement the Policy is part of the document. ::: ::: The National Policy, referring to the Constitut...
Historical background and political development structure, politics and ideology trade unions and political parties the decline of working class politics? union-government relations the politics of collective bargaining unions, politics and the new working class conclusions - unions, politics and the future.
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Numerical Modelling of Beach Recovery Following a Storm Event: A Hybrid Behavioural / Process-Based Approach
The present thesis describes the development of a hybrid behavioural / process-based and wave-averaged model (XBeach Surfbeat) that successfully predicts the recovery of the subaerial beach at Narrabeen Beach, Australia, following a severe storm erosion in April 2015. Two model innovations were developed. Firstly, a be...
CSF Buxmont Academy operates eight school/day treatment programs that use restorative practices, which includes a culture in which restorative characterizes staff interaction with students, and staff-to-staff and student-to-student relationships as well. This chapter presents analyses of the outcome experiences from tw...
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Waterpipe smoking among health sciences university students: Knowledge, attitude and patterns of use
Introduction ::: Although waterpipe smoking is common in Gulf counties, its prevalence in Saudi Arabia is uncertain. The purposes of this study were (a) to assess the prevalence of waterpipe smoking among healthcare university students in Saudi Arabia and (b) to determine their attitudes and practices of waterpipe smok...
This research examines the overall and relative effects of the elements of Hirschi's Social Bonding Theory on four separate measures of deviance using data drawn from a sample of 3065 adolescents. ...
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Potential Savings through Prevention of Avoidable Chronic Illness among CalPERS State Active Members
The high and rising prevalence of chronic disease represents a substantial burden on the medical care system and a major cost for society, leaving aside its toll on individuals. Evidence comes from varied sources and is based on a range of methods. The burden is presented as rising rates of obesity, increased prevalenc...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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HIV vaccine acceptance among heterosexual clients of a sexually transmitted diseases clinic.
We evaluated the willingness of clients at a large urban sexually transmitted diseases (STD) clinic in the southeastern United States to participate in future trials of preventive vaccines for HIV type 1 (HIV-1). A single trained interviewer administered an oral survey instrument to STD clinic clients over a 4-week enr...
In this article the hedonic regression technique is used to estimate the value of traffic safety, using information from the Swedish market for automobiles. The results from the study show that the market price of an automobile is negatively correlated with its inherent risk level, i.e. Swedish car consumers pay a safe...
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A comparison of key benefit estimation issues for natural hazards and terrorism: ex ante/ex post valuation and endogenous risk
Benefit–Cost Analyses for Security Policies describes how to undertake the evaluation of security policies within the framework of benefit–cost analysis and offers a unique contribution to analysis of homeland security regulations in the United States. The authors outline how established procedures for benefit–cost ana...
we examine motivations for, and costs/benefits of, participation in three interviews across a one-year period among women recently exposed to intimate partner abuse (IPA). Recruited from publicly accessible police reports, women were not informed that the study focused on IPA in recruiting materials or when they schedu...
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Modeling and Fitting Quantile Distributions and Regressions
SYNOPTIC ABSTRACTThis paper surveys the development of distributions defined by their quantile functions in both distributional and regression situations. It considers issues of both model construction and fitting. In particular it advocates the use of the ordered data in distributional estimation and seeks to emphasis...
Following the implementation of key actions resulting from Valuing People (DoH, 2001), people with learning disabilities resident in hospital will be relocated into the community. This paper examines psychological, social and quality of life indicators applied to a group of 50 service users, 36 of whom are soon to be r...
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Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment: What Are the Differences?.
The authors conducted a content analysis of prevention definitions in the general prevention literature. The pros and cons of the traditional trilogy (primary, secondary, and tertiary) of prevention definitions are examined, along with a description of key concepts, such as end-states, timing, targets, and eligibility ...
A guide with information on predatory publishing, tips, and advice for faculty and students getting ready to publish their academic articles.
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Multimodal treatment in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a 6-month follow-up
AbstractBackground: Different treatment approaches aimed at reducing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) core symptoms are available. However, factors such as intolerance, side-effects, lack of efficacy, high new technology costs, and placebo effect have spurred on an increasing interest in alternative or c...
Plastics have much to offer as a modern convenience, but lack of responsible plastic waste management habits can lead to potentially harmful environmental effects. Past environmental initiatives revealed a lack of understanding about youth attitudes towards pro‐environmental issues. [minus]plastic, an online public env...
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Integrating Cultural Variables into Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment with Racial/Ethnic Minorities:
A set of variables, identified as “cultural variables,” is introduced as important descriptors of the life experiences of people from the major ethnic/racial minority groups in the United States. It is stated that most contemporary models for prevention and treatment of substance abuse are “culturally blind” to the eff...
Nowadays by formation of virtual communities, people support public services by sharing their own information and experiences. This article used the information of a Persian website in which the question and answer cycle takes place. In this research was used content validity. This research was utilized participant obs...
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Health beverage for clearing away heat and toxic substances, and preparation method thereof
The invention discloses a health beverage for clearing away heat and toxic substances, and a preparation method of the health beverage. The health beverage is prepared from Herba Taraxaci 55-65%, Flos Lonicerae 10-20%, Lalang Grass Rhizome 8-12%, Glycyrrhizae Radix 3-5%, Herba Menthae 4-6%, honey 0.8-1.2%, white granul...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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The urge for evidence based knowledge
Clearly, the context of health sciences is increasingly been influenced by a general commitment related to interventions intending to improve the health conditions of individuals and populations brought by the so called evidence based knowledge. You can easily notice a proliferation of evidence based issues and debates...
ABSTRACTUsing a needs theory framework, this study investigated motivations of social enterprise workers and their intent to stay using a sequential mixed exploratory design. Factor analysis of sur...
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Oral health status of Asian and Hispanic women. A pilot study.
Data on the oral health of Asian and Hispanic women are rare in the dental literature. The objective of this study was to investigate the oral health status and needs of women from these two groups. Forty newly registered women from each group were the subjects of the study. Standard forms were used to collect sociodem...
This paper estimates a dynamic model of schooling attainment to investigate the sources of discrepancy by race and ethnicity in college attendance. When the returns to college education rose, college enrollment of whites responded much more quickly than that of minorities. Parental income is a strong predictor of this ...
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The Psychology of Protective Behavior
What determines whether people will protect themselves against the severe losses that might arise from some low-probability hazard? What factors underlie the perception and acceptability of technological risks? The answers to questions such as these are vital for understanding how people cope with threats from accident...
Twelve trainees (3 men and 9 women) who had recently completed predoctoral internships at a university counseling center were interviewed about what they had learned from clients. Data were analyzed using a consensual qualitative research method. Participants reported learning things about doing therapy, themselves, cl...
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Current state of health human resources allocation in Changzhou and strategies for development
Objective To find out about problems in health human resources allocation in Chang-zhou so as to propose development strategies. Methods The quantity of the health workforce, its specialty, age, education and professional title structures, and the dynamic changes in the last 10 years in health human resources and their...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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ITS Community Service Program as A Medium to Empower Community in Facing the Era of Industrial Revolution 4.0
As agents of change, students are required not only to have knowledge and expertise in their fields, but they must also be ready to be in the community to implement the knowledge and skills they have, help solve real problems faced by the community or provide knowledge and skills to the community so they can lead bette...
ABSTRACT:Objective:To describe social disparities in early intervention (EI) service use and provider-reported outcomes.Methods:Secondary data analysis of administrative data to ascertain EI service use of all EI and discipline-specific services and child and family characteristics. Adjusted logisti
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The Positive Research on Consumption Needs of the Rresidents in Heilongjiang Province
The paper metrologically analyses the relation between the residents' consumption needs and economic increase by the economic metrological model.and comes to the conclusion that the residents' consumption needs play an important role in the economic increase.In addition,it analyses the characteristics of the consumptio...
Abstract This article is discussed basing on high-tech company staffs’ medical inspection result, individual factor, health that occurs different life styles and relevant aspects. In addition to know health that occurs different life style, the main purpose is to further understand the result comes from staffs’ health ...
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Low-dosage use of methadone in extended detoxification: An experimental comparison.
Thirty heroin addicts were studied to examine the effects of methadone hydrochloride given in low dosages in extended narcotic detoxification. Treatment procedures were divided into two phases, extending over 90 days. Initial phase (seven to ten days) included both hospital and outpatient supervision, and was terminate...
R&D budget has been recently increased rapidly by our government's direction under the recognition that strong R&D policy lead to the wealth of the nation. The methodologies for effective evaluation have received great attention was increased. We had established the laws to evaluate and man age the performance of natio...
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The testing of brushes for life and performance under various altitude conditions
Harvey J. Finison (Equipment Laboratory, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio): One of the greatest problems in brush wear testing has been the selection of test conditions representative of service conditions. Selection of test conditions considerably more severe than actual operating conditions may result in elimination of bru...
This study investigated elementary school students’ environmental knowledge and attitudes, the effects of sociodemographic variables on environmental knowledge and attitudes, and how self‐reported environmentally friendly behaviour is related to environmental knowledge, behavioural intentions, environmental affects, an...
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Developing theories and methods for practice
In this issue we carry a number of convergent papers on Theory and Methods that will contribute to the debate about “fit for purpose” academic support for practice. From the United States, Dr Roux provides a comprehensive glossary of terms for the increasingly important multilevel analysis, while Wardle and colleagues ...
This “Methods to Policy†piece discusses opportunities and challenges in reconciling increased demands for evidence to be “patient-centered†with the realities of highly diverse patient circumstances, preferences, and clinical situations.
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CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING CAN HELP ANTS SOLVING HIGHLY CONSTRAINTED COMBINATORIAL PROBLEMS
A memory system includes a data storage matrix having columns and rows and a redundant storage matrix having at least one column. The columns of the storage matrix are addressed by column addresses each defining a logical column address for a data bit of a row and corresponding to a predetermined physical column of the...
The majority of opiate-dependent patients in substitution treatment show additional substance-related disorders. Concomitant use of heroin, alcohol, benzodiazepines or cocaine compromises treatment success. Concomitant drug use may be treated by using contingency management (CM) which is based on learning theory. In CM...
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