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Social Support And Adaptive Coping In African-American Adolescents With Mild Intellectual Disability., Karen Klotter Lozano Jan 1998

Social Support And Adaptive Coping In African-American Adolescents With Mild Intellectual Disability., Karen Klotter Lozano

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An Automated Immunofluorescent Microscopy System For The Characterization Of Mucosally Derived Single Cell Immune Responses., Salieu Maxx Abraham Jan 1998

An Automated Immunofluorescent Microscopy System For The Characterization Of Mucosally Derived Single Cell Immune Responses., Salieu Maxx Abraham

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Risk Adjusting And Setting Capitation Rates For Children: Including Versus Excluding Children With Special Health Care Needs From Participation In Managed Care Arrangements, Kristina Yvette Risley Gupta Jan 1998

Risk Adjusting And Setting Capitation Rates For Children: Including Versus Excluding Children With Special Health Care Needs From Participation In Managed Care Arrangements, Kristina Yvette Risley Gupta

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Objectives . (1) To identify and describe four groups of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) using definitions that represent various groups of special needs children who are, or who have been recommended to be, carved-out of participation in managed care plans. (2) To examine how total, mean, and median annual health care expenditures differ based on the definition for CSHCN used. (3) To assess the capacity of several risk adjusters, including age, gender, CSHCN group to which children belong, and the Ambulatory Diagnostic Groups (ADGs) to predict annual expenditures for healthy children and for the groups of CSHCN. …


Birmingham Poetry Review 18 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Pp. -2 Jan 1998

Birmingham Poetry Review 18 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff Pp. -2

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The Making Of Birmingham's Second Ghetto: North Smithfield 1945-1950, Eric A. Knudsen Jan 1998

The Making Of Birmingham's Second Ghetto: North Smithfield 1945-1950, Eric A. Knudsen

Vulcan Historical Review

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Nurse Executives' Use Of A Labor Computer Decision Support System: Differences In Nursing Labor Cost Per Patient Day., Melondie Reeves Carter Jan 1998

Nurse Executives' Use Of A Labor Computer Decision Support System: Differences In Nursing Labor Cost Per Patient Day., Melondie Reeves Carter

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Hiv Vaccine Volunteers: Personality, Motivation And Risk., Mallory O'Neill Johnson Jan 1998

Hiv Vaccine Volunteers: Personality, Motivation And Risk., Mallory O'Neill Johnson

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Environmental And Occupational Exposure To Ultraviolet Radiation And Associated Health Risks, Thomas Daniel Tenkate Jan 1998

Environmental And Occupational Exposure To Ultraviolet Radiation And Associated Health Risks, Thomas Daniel Tenkate

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Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is produced by many sources, and for most people the sun is their main source of exposure. In the occupational environment there are also many artificial sources, of which welding arcs are the predominant and most intense. This dissertation represents a synthesis and interpretation of information (both empirical and review) that is contained in five journal articles. These articles address personal exposure, evaluation and control of UVR from both natural and artificial sources, and in particular exposure to UVR from welding arcs. This research has shown that workers in a welding environment have personal exposures to UVR …


Income Distribution And Health Outcomes: An Assessment Of The Role Of Poverty, Donna Rickert Jan 1998

Income Distribution And Health Outcomes: An Assessment Of The Role Of Poverty, Donna Rickert

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Objective. To evaluate the relationship between relative and absolute income in the context of their respective influence on 10 measures of health status at the American county level. Setting. The 67 counties of the state of Alabama. Design. Cross-sectional ecological study. Relative income, i.e., income inequality, was indexed as the percentage of total household income received by the least well off 50% of households. Absolute income was indexed as the percentage of households below the federal poverty level. These two income measures, calculated for each county from 1990 census data, were used to specify and estimate a series of regression …


Palazzo Barberini Alle Quattro Fontane: Self-Imaging In Domestic Architecture., Thomas Earle Bryant Jan 1998

Palazzo Barberini Alle Quattro Fontane: Self-Imaging In Domestic Architecture., Thomas Earle Bryant

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Assembly And Egress Of Human Cytomegalovirus Particles., Veronica Sanchez Jan 1998

Assembly And Egress Of Human Cytomegalovirus Particles., Veronica Sanchez

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Nurse, Nurse Administrator, And Nurse Educator Perceptions Of Patient Expectations Of Nursing Service Quality In Southern Thailand., Wallapa Chaibourkeaw Kochapakdee Jan 1998

Nurse, Nurse Administrator, And Nurse Educator Perceptions Of Patient Expectations Of Nursing Service Quality In Southern Thailand., Wallapa Chaibourkeaw Kochapakdee

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Development Of A Canine Distemper Virus Model In Ferrets For Testing Novel Morbillivirus Vaccine Strategies., Janet Marie Welter Jan 1998

Development Of A Canine Distemper Virus Model In Ferrets For Testing Novel Morbillivirus Vaccine Strategies., Janet Marie Welter

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Molecular Mechanisms Of Fatty Acid Oxidation Gene Expression In Disease., David Miley Kurtz Jan 1998

Molecular Mechanisms Of Fatty Acid Oxidation Gene Expression In Disease., David Miley Kurtz

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Factors That Relate To Women's Participation In Dental Research Investigations: Patient Perceptions., Shelia L. White Jan 1998

Factors That Relate To Women's Participation In Dental Research Investigations: Patient Perceptions., Shelia L. White

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The Moderating Effects Of Catastrophizing As A Response To Daily Pain Among Patients With Fibromyalgia., Leslie A. Aaron Jan 1998

The Moderating Effects Of Catastrophizing As A Response To Daily Pain Among Patients With Fibromyalgia., Leslie A. Aaron

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Risk And Protective Factors In Understanding Cognitive And Psychosocial Development In Young Children., Takayo Michelle Ashford Jan 1998

Risk And Protective Factors In Understanding Cognitive And Psychosocial Development In Young Children., Takayo Michelle Ashford

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The Impact Of Time And Communication On Satisfaction And Loyalty Of Hospital Patients., Dawn Bendall Jan 1998

The Impact Of Time And Communication On Satisfaction And Loyalty Of Hospital Patients., Dawn Bendall

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Data Mining And Epidemiologic Surveillance., Stephen Edward Brossette Jan 1998

Data Mining And Epidemiologic Surveillance., Stephen Edward Brossette

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Motor Vehicle Manufacturing And Prostate Cancer: A Nested Case-Control Study., David Allan Brown Jan 1998

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing And Prostate Cancer: A Nested Case-Control Study., David Allan Brown

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Outcomes Of Comfort Touch In Institutionalized Elderly Female Residents., Mary Jane Butts Jan 1998

Outcomes Of Comfort Touch In Institutionalized Elderly Female Residents., Mary Jane Butts

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Cytokine Production At The Site Of Disease In Human Lymphatic Filariasis., Adriana Behrsing De Almeida Jan 1998

Cytokine Production At The Site Of Disease In Human Lymphatic Filariasis., Adriana Behrsing De Almeida

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Dental Anxiety And Behavioral Inhibition In Young Children., Sandra Jane Hammock Jan 1998

Dental Anxiety And Behavioral Inhibition In Young Children., Sandra Jane Hammock

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Automated Knowledge Acquisition Of Case-Based Semantic Networks For Interactive Enhancement Of The Data Mining Process., Aubrey Eugene Hill Jan 1998

Automated Knowledge Acquisition Of Case-Based Semantic Networks For Interactive Enhancement Of The Data Mining Process., Aubrey Eugene Hill

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Extending The Prototypicality Paradigm: Alternate Physical Environment's Influences On Patient Evaluations Of Care And Behavioral Intentions Following A Hospital Health Services Encounter., James Dixion Hutton Jan 1998

Extending The Prototypicality Paradigm: Alternate Physical Environment's Influences On Patient Evaluations Of Care And Behavioral Intentions Following A Hospital Health Services Encounter., James Dixion Hutton

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Aging And Dark Adaptation., Gregory Ronald Jackson Jan 1998

Aging And Dark Adaptation., Gregory Ronald Jackson

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A Prospective Study Of Couples Who Use The Female Condom: Occurrence And Determinants Of Condom Failure During Use., Mona Louise Lawson Jan 1998

A Prospective Study Of Couples Who Use The Female Condom: Occurrence And Determinants Of Condom Failure During Use., Mona Louise Lawson

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Optimization Of Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor (Fgf-1) And Its Delivery Through A Modified Degradable Fibrin Scaffold., Abhay Smashikant Pandit Jan 1998

Optimization Of Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor (Fgf-1) And Its Delivery Through A Modified Degradable Fibrin Scaffold., Abhay Smashikant Pandit

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Clinical Indicators Of Transpyloric Feeding Tube Placement In Critically Ill Children., Mary Frances Drake Pate Jan 1998

Clinical Indicators Of Transpyloric Feeding Tube Placement In Critically Ill Children., Mary Frances Drake Pate

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Hepatic Metabolism And Molecular Interactions Of Nucleoside Analogs Active Against Hiv., Xin-Ru Pan-Zhou Jan 1998

Hepatic Metabolism And Molecular Interactions Of Nucleoside Analogs Active Against Hiv., Xin-Ru Pan-Zhou

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