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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Nonusers"”.
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Adolescent contraceptive use: an ecological perspective
… between adolescent contraceptive users and nonusers on the basis of five variables; sexual self-concept, family life education, father communication, mother communication, and years of fathers' education. Included in the sample were 116 college freshmen men and women. The results revealed …
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The Effects of Oral Contraceptive Use on Ligamentous Injury Incidence in Females: A Potential for Prevention
… will have lower rates of ACL injury compared to nonusers. To assess this relationship we performed a case-control study using national commercial insurance claims data. Cases were defined as females undergoing ACL reconstruction and OC use was determined from a 12 month history of OC prescription …
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Sexual-Enhancement Drug Use in College-Age Men
… SED users are more sexually exploratory than the nonusers.
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21st Century Radicalization: The Role of the Internet User and Nonuser in Terrorist Outcomes
… study examines differences between users and nonusers of information communication technologies (ICTs) within the pre-incident planning processes for domestic terrorist movements operating within the United States. In addition, this study is the first quantitative exploration of the …
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A comparative study of users and non-users of chemical pesticides among middle-class urban women in Roanoke and Richmond, Virginia, based on educational attainment and other selected variables
… higher educational level than had the nonusers. High and low education levels were used as variables and comparisons of certain data were made on that basis.
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Adolescent substance use and family dynamics
… were manifested in adolescents classified as nonusers, users, and/or abusers of alcohol/drugs. Two hundred and thirty-seven adolescents responded to written questionnaires including the Alcohol and Drug Use Index, a reduced form of the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES …
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The differential effects of MDMA (ecstasy) use on executive and memory processes
… ecstasy users performed significantly worse than nonusers on measures of updating and access, although cocaine also emerged as an important factor in deficits in access. The contribution of access and updating to performance on more complex executive function tasks was then assessedI.t was found …
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Hormoninės kontracepcijos poveikis moterų kognityvinėms funkcijoms ir emocinės informacijos apdorojimui /
… the first study demonstrating that OC users and nonusers may employ different strategies to perform the mental rotation task. The performance did not differ between the groups in the working memory task. The results suggest altered affective picture processing among OC users with significantly …
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Statins and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
… disease in statin users as compared with nonusers was 0.76 (95% confidence interval, 0.55 to 1.06).</p><p>Conclusions: The random-effects model predicted that statin use is associated with an average reduction in risk of Alzheimer disease of 24%. Although the 95% confidence interval …
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Estimation of the Number of Days Required to Determine Usual Antioxidant Intakes and Assessment of the Prevalence of Nutrient Inadequacy Among College Students
… nutrient intake and adequacy compared to nonusers. </p>
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Understanding factors affecting utilization of Long-Term Reversible Contraception in rural Pakistan
… to adopt and maintain LARC contraceptives. Nonusers face barriers due to inaccurate information provided by community-based providers, discordant inter-spousal communication and strong religious beliefs on use of modern contraceptives. Current policies and practices of services for Family …
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A Study of the Library Use Practices of High School Students in Three East Tennessee Counties.
… achievement, studies of library users and nonusers, and lifestyle variables relating to library use.</p><p>The study's identification of library use patterns and high school students' attitudes about their use of the library could assist librarians in making long range plans for their …
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Establish Realistic Patient Expectations Following Total Knee Replacement Surgery
… of e-learning users were no different than nonusers and use of the tool was highest pre-operatively. Finally, surgeon videos that included content about expectations of surgery were most frequently viewed videos, pre- and post-operatively. In Chapter 5 we demonstrated the internal …
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Customers’ perceptions towards online banking services in Malta
… that the main factors that both users and nonusers of internet banking would like to change or add include: the fees and/or the transfer charges between one bank and the other, a more user friendly system and/or more knowledge about the service, and increased safety and security. …
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Subject searching behaviour at the library catalogue and at the shelves: evaluating the impact of an online public access catalogue
… but fewer items were retrieved at the shelves. Nonusers of the bibliographic tools seemed to be just as successful. The information retrieval task in both searching environments is tailored by the system to a single one dimensional sequential process. It is suggested that a major obstacle to …
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The Change Process: Stages of Concern of the Standards of Learning in Superintendents' Region Seven in Virginia
… SOL Tests possessed profiles indicative of nonusers. The concerns for these groups were typically highest on stages 0, 1, and 2 and lowest on stages 4, 5, and 6. When the data were analyzed for elementary (N=30), and secondary teachers (N=41) responsible for administering SOL Tests, the …
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Consumer satisfaction with food marketing services: the effects of in-store information and education programs
… in a consumer education course were likely to be nonusers of the information program.
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Interruption events and sensemaking processes: A narrative analysis of older people's relationships with computers
… as an opportunity; Users, as a tool; and Nonusers, as a threat. Participants' meanings were traced through a storying process that identified three narrative elements as key: the settings in which accounts of the principal protagonists older people and computers were produced; the strength …
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C - Reactive Protein, Coronary Heart Disease and Ischemic Stroke in the Elderly: The Cardiovascular Health Study
… CHD participants, 37% of statin users and 36% of nonusers had elevated CRP levels. During 8 years of follow-up, 270 incident CHD events and 245 incident ischemic strokes occurred. Incidence rate of CHD and ischemic stroke was 10.7 and 9.7 per 1000 person-years, respectively. The relative risk (RR) …
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