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Showing 1 to 20 of 470 for “"Health and environmental sciences"”.
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Integrating International, Intercultural, and Global Dimensions in Tertiary Education: Ways Forward
… phenomenon. Increasingly, study-abroad students and foreign lecturers are entering the education industry. This research examined the potential and specific strengths that Non-Native English Speakers (NNESs) have brought to New Zealand universities in general, and Auckland University of …
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Extending Space-Time Putative Hazard Models to Detect Latent Risk Features
… recent years small area risk assessment modeling and data analysis around putative hazard sources has become a fundamental part of public health and environmental sciences. This dissertation work examines a novel development of three different space-time Bayesian hierarchical modeling methods. …
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An exploration of the finding and seeking of meaning in the life and the Mexican-American nurse's mood state
… increasing concern about nurses' personal and professional life situations related to stress, frustrations, concerns and problems. An exploratory design was used to ascertain the relationship between the finding and the seeking of meaning in life and the nurse's mood state. One hundred and …
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Patterns of association between real-world performance and measures of executive function
… between a set of real-world performance measures and a set of executive function measures with a sample of community based individuals with schizophrenia (N=80). Participants were given a battery of cognitive tests and evaluated with a real-world performance measure, the Test of Grocery Shopping …
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Pacifier stiffness alters the dynamics of the suck central pattern generator
… clinic among infants born prematurely with and without a history of respiratory distress syndrome. Three types of Soothie™ silicone pacifiers used in the NICU were tested for materials stiffness, revealing the Super Soothie™ is 7 times stiffer. No significant between-subjects effects were …
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The influence of satiety mediators and dietary intake on food addiction in obese women prior to sleeve gastrectomy: a pilot study
… was to identify the impact of fasting leptin and ghrelin and dietary intake on FA in obese women before vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG). Seventeen morbidly obese females were recruited from Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) questionnaire, a …
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Differences in daily dietary intake between students who eat at least one meal in restaurants and students who don't eat in restaurants
… the difference between away from home meals and home meals. Students aged 11-14 years old were recruited from four middle schools in the Houston area and completed four 24-hour recalls in 2008. They were divided into 2 groups by meal source: those who ate all meals at home and those who ate …
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Critical care nurses' attitudes about patient autonomy and their willingness to act as patient advocates
… care nurses attitudes about patient autonomy and their willingness to act as patient advocates. The researcher developed a questionnaire for data collection. The convenience sample was comprised of 39 critical care nurses who were members of a local chapter of the American Association of …
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A meta-analysis of interventions to increase adherence to medication regimens for pediatric otitis media and streptococcal pharyngitis
… illnesses are important for both individual and public health outcomes. To date, there has not been a comprehensive, quantitative analysis of the effectiveness of interventions for acute pediatric illnesses. The current study used meta-analysis to quantitatively synthesize the adherence …
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Stressful postpartum psychologic reactions in adult and adolescent African-American mothers of low birthweight infants
… infants. The sample consisted of 28 adults and 25 adolescents, all of whom had given birth to low birthweight infants in an urban city in the Southwest region of the United States. The Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist Today Scale (Zuckerman & Lubin, 1965) was used to measure stressful …
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Frequency of use of an onsite fitness center in relation to job satisfaction and absenteeism
Attempts to contain health care costs at the worksite have focused on health promotion as a possible solution. The study, conducted at the Xerox facility in Lewisville, Texas, examined utilization of an onsite fitness center in relation to job satisfaction and absenteeism. A secondary problem was …
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Mexican American cultural sensitivity among family planning clinical staff
… of family planning clinical staff and their knowledge of and attitudes towards Mexican American culture. Characteristics included: (a) ethnicity, (b) length of employment, (c) cultural issues experience, (d) clinic site, and (e) clinic type. Thirty-two clinical staff members of a …
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Daily Variability of Body Weight and Hydration Markers in Free Living Men and Women
<p>Body weight and hydration markers change greatly during strenuous exercise, especially in the heat. However, in a non-athletic population, changes in body weight and hydration markers may not be so obvious. It is important to classify the normal fluctuation of these measurements for future …
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A comparison of the predictors of perceived susceptibility to HIV infection held by women and men using the NHIS AIDS supplement 1991
… perceived susceptibility to HIV/AIDS in women and men based on the Health Belief Model. The public file NHIS AIDS Supplement 1991 was used for analysis. A multi-stage cluster sample of 42,725 individuals from every region in the U.S. was used. Thirty percent of the subjects indicated a …
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