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On The Measurement Of Nicotine Dependence In Adolescence: Comparisons Of The Mftq And A Dsm-Iv–Based Scale, Denise Kandel, Christine Schaffran, Pamela Griesler, Jessica Samuolis, Mark Davies, Rosaria Galanti

Psychology Faculty Publications

Objective: To compare nicotine-dependent smokers identified by the modified Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire (mFTQ) and a scale based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), in a multiethnic adolescent sample. Methods: A school survey was conducted on 6th- to 10th-grade students (N= 15,007) in a large urban public school system. Results: The two scales formed two distinct factors. The concordance between the two classifications of nicotine dependence was low. The DSM identified a much larger number of nicotine-dependent smokers than the mFTQ, mostly because smokers met dependence criteria at much lower levels of …

Fall 2004 Meeting: Scientific Program, James Giacomo

The Migrant - Tennessee Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Prairie Provinces, Rudolf F. Koes, Peter Taylor

North American Birds

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Northern Canada, Cameron D. Eckert

North American Birds

No abstract provided.

Recent Nesting And Current Status Of Aplomado Falcon (Falco Femoralis) In New Mexico, Raymond A. Meyer, Sartor O. Williams Iii

North American Birds

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Assessing Stakeholder Needs: Delphi Meets The Internet, Chyrel A. Mayfield, Gary J. Wingenbach, David R. Chalmers

Journal of Extension

Turfgrass specialists and Extension educators responsible for developing educational materials in the Master Gardener Program sought stakeholder input for an innovative curriculum by using innovative data collection methods. County agents, program coordinators, and volunteers from 11 Cooperative Extension Service districts responded to a Web-based, Delphi study. Interactive, online data collection methods provided rapid feedback in the consensus-building process. Extension personnel can use this methodology to develop similar consensus-building activities for other programming issues. Stakeholder input can be achieved, with minimum time and expense, while curriculum developers minimize wasted time in programming development that clientele may not find useful.

Caregiving In The Heartland: Outreach Through Adaptation And Collaboration, Paul Jones, William Field

Journal of Extension

Extension programs must often adapt to meet the needs of those they serve. Purdue University's Breaking New Ground (BNG) Resource Center, while focused mainly on the assistive technology needs of agricultural workers with disabilities, realized that the caregivers of these individuals could also benefit from instruction and educational resources. This article describes the development of BNG's caregiver initiative and shares lessons learned from several years of workshop coordination.

Nutrition Mission--A Multimedia Educational Tool For Youth Grades 4 - 6, Katherine L. Cason, Tionni R. Wenrich, Nan Lv

Journal of Extension

Nutrition Mission is a multimedia educational CD-ROM with an accompanying Web site designed to teach 4th - 6th grade students about making healthy food and activity choices. The CD-ROM incorporates a rich learning environment using graphics, audio, video, and interactive animations to excite students and make learning about nutrition fun. The CD includes lessons about the food guide pyramid, food labels, nutrient density, fast foods, snacking, physical activity, and food science experiments. Preliminary data indicates that the majority of youth acquire knowledge and skills related to foods, nutrition, and physical activity.

A Web-Based Resource For Watershed Management In Illinois, Susan Meeker, Jodine L. Tate, George F. Czapar, Traci Vaughan

Journal of Extension

The Illinois Watershed Management Clearinghouse (IWMC) Web Site provides access to information on watersheds and their management. The IWMC includes educational materials on a wide range of issues, ranging from urban storm water and best management practices to GIS support and watershed maps. IWMC links watershed groups to allow for sharing of information, materials, and technical tools. The site effectively leverages the resources of Illinois agencies into one organized site to better serve the state. IWMC has a large amount of information pertaining to most aspects of watershed management.

Evaluation Of Training Program For Caregivers To Aging Adults, Gloria J. Barrett, Patti Wooten Swanson, Anna V. Song

Journal of Extension

Extension professionals have a wealth of research-based information and expertise in nutrition, activities of daily living, and resource management. This knowledge is the basis for a new Extension program to train in-home caregivers. The purpose of the study described here was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Caregiver Training Program, designed and delivered by Cooperative Extension academic advisors to enhance the skills and knowledge of the in-home supportive service caregivers. Participants report positive changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, interest, and self-confidence. Extension is uniquely qualified and positioned to provide training for caregivers to aging adults.

The Effects Of Debt On Newlyweds And Implications For Education, Linda M. Skogrand, David G. Schramm, James P. Marshall, Thomas R. Lee

Journal of Extension

The study discussed here examines the relationship between newlywed debt, selected demographic variables, and newlywed levels of marital satisfaction and adjustment. The study used survey data gathered from 1,010 randomly sampled newlywed couples. The findings from this study indicate that entering marriage with consumer debt has a negative impact on newlywed levels of marital quality. Extension educators are in a unique position to provide local high schools, colleges, and the public with information on debt management and its impact on marriage relationships.

A New Interpretation Of The Drug Levodopa In The Treatment Of Parkinson's Disease, Joanne T. Vannah

Graduate Masters Theses

An argument for levodopa induced dyskinesias (LID) as an expression of long term potentiation (LTP) in the striatum is presented. Normally, with an intact nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) input, long term depression (LTD) is expressed in the striatum, however, striatal LTD is lost following DA denervation and chronic levodopa treatment. It is possible that these changes in synaptic efficacy are due to two other chemical modulators, achetylcholine (ACh) and glutamate, which in turn leads to the induction of striatal LTP. ACh and glutamate may produce these changes in motor behavior by affecting the striosomal pathway in addition to their effect on …

A Structural Analysis Of Law Enforcement Officer Deaths; 1995-1999, Kasey A. Tucker

Dissertations

Every year several officers die while serving the general public, protecting society from chaos and disorder of crime. Much conjecture surrounds the discussionof why law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and several different studies gave been conducted looking at the different aspects of law enforcement officer death, but limited literature exists exploring law enforcement officer death from a structural perspective.

This study examines in a preliminarily nature, the structural factors that precipitate law enforcement officer deaths between the years of 1995 and 1999 in the United States. In this analysis a theoretical framework reflective of the conflict …

Another One Bites The Dust: Missouri Puts To Rest Uncertainty About Anatomical Gift Immunity, Ryan Deboef

Missouri Law Review

In 1968, the Uniform Law Association ("ULA") adopted the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act ("UAGA"). 2 In seeking to promote anatomical gifts, 3 the UAGA immunizes medical personnel who procure human tissue, organ, and bone. Legislatures in all fifty states have since enacted some form of the UAGA. 4 Many state courts interpreted their respective UAGA immunity provisions long ago.' But, until recently, Missouri courts had not yet had the opportunity to interpret Missouri's UAGA immunity provision. In Schembre v. Mid-America Transplant Ass'n,6 Missouri's Eastern District Court of Appeals addressed Missouri's UAGA immunity provision for the first time.7 This Note explores …

Split Dose Of Succinylcholine For Modification Ofseizure During Multiple Monitoredelectroconvulsive Therapy, T. Werawatganon, O. Kyokong, S. Charuluxananan, S. Poonyatavorn, D. Udompornwiwat

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: First 50 Cases Inking Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, A. Santi-Ngamkun, S. Ratchanon, K. Aksornnit, S. Sunthornyothin

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Conventional V.S. New Chest Physical Therapy Techniques For Airway Clearance, S. Tongkam

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Challenges Of Banking Sector Reforms And Bank Consolidation In Nigeria., Odufu I. Imala

Bullion

This paper intended to look at the number of reforms that have since been created, several of them was intended to enhance the risk management capability of both the regulated institutions and the regulators. the current reforms are part of the broader and on-going national economic reforms. This paper x-rays the challenges envisaged in their implementation. Following the introduction, section 2 examines the role of the banking system in the economy, while section 3 provides the rationale for the reforms in Nigeria. Section 4, the reform agenda is discussed with a brief on the journey so far. Section 5 identifies …

Do Women Change Politics?, Tracy L. Osborn

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, June 2005

Bridgewater Review

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The Importance Of Leadership, Dorothy J. Mulcahy

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Alzheimer's Disease And Contrast Sensitivity: Implications For Everyday Functioning, Sandra Neargarder

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

News From Cart, Patricia J. Fanning, Amos Nwosu

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

I. Foreword—Electronic Discovery, Georgene Vairo

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Why The Sky Didn't Fall: Using Judicial Creativity To Circumvent Crawford V. Washington, Whitney Baugh

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Contents, Anon

Washington International Law Journal

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Australia's Damaging International Trade Practice: The Case Against Cruelty To Greyhounds, Alison G. Jones

Washington International Law Journal

The Australian greyhound racing industry is capitalizing on newly emerging markets in countries such as China and South Korea. The industry's drive to profit from promoting greyhound racing in these countries has put the welfare of greyhounds at risk. By exporting these dogs to China and South Korea, Australia is violating the spirit and general intent of its own animal cruelty laws, which guard against the type of animal abuse that occurs largely unchecked in those countries. Therefore, Australia should put an end to such exports as soon as possible. Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ("GATT"), Australia …

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.06, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Copyrighting American History: International Copyright And The Periodization Of The Nineteenth Century, Claudia Stokes

English Faculty Research

With the publication in 1930 of the third and final volume of his Main Currents in American Thought, Vernon Parrington gave singular shape and force to an already established paradigm of the American nineteenth century as two discrete eras, hinged politically and culturally by the Civil War. After 1865, goes the familiar narrative, the Boston Brahmins and their ‘‘love of standards’’ were unseated by itinerant, gritty, self-made writers based in New York. For Parrington, this literary restaging of the American Revolution, in which Old World aristocratic power fell at the hands of an American populism, was best exemplified by …

Math Department Newsletter, 2005, University Of Dayton. Department Of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics Newsletters

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