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Central Florida Future, Vol. 39 No. 134, November 2, 2007

Central Florida Future

SDS rallies against the Burger King; Get ready for Splashdown; UCF has campus psych shortage; Students get 25 percent off gold apparel at Bookstore.

The Bg News November 2, 2007, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 2, 2007. Volume 98-Issue 53.

The Relationship Of Cognitive, Emotional, And Interpersonal Factors To Screening And Health­Promoting Behaviors Among Sisters Of Breast Cancer Patients, Sheri Jacobs Hartman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

While sisters of breast cancer patients are at increased risk for developing breast cancer due to their family cancer history and age, little research with first-degree relatives of cancer patients has focused solely on sisters. To address this issue, the current study examined sisters screening and health behaviors and the predictors of these behaviors. In accordance with the Parallel Processing Theory, the current study assessed the relationship of cognitive and emotional factors to screening and health-promoting behaviors among sisters of breast cancer patients. In addition, this study expanded upon the Parallel Processing Theory by also examining the relationship of interpersonal …

Development Of A Scale To Measure Parenting In Hispanic Adolescents’ Families, Evelyn Marie Alvarez

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The ultimate goal of this research was to provide a tool to adequately examine the relationship that parenting style has with Hispanic youths' academic and behavioral outcomes. A review of the literature reveals that the field is lacking an appropriate, culturally sensitive, paper-and-pencil measure of parenting of Hispanic adolescents with adolescents reporting on their parents' behavior. Current measures were not developed with Hispanic families in mind, but rather were evaluated for use with Hispanic populations after the development phase. Therefore, the current study sought to fill this gap in the research on parenting by constructing a measure of parenting that …

Montana Kaimin, November 2, 2007, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

11-2007 Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library Services

Library Services Newsletters

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Library Services Newsletter for November 2007.

Community Leader, Vol. 06, No. 01, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

2007-11-01 Unm News Minute, University Of New Mexico Communication And Marketing Department

UNM News Minute 2007

No abstract provided.

Genes As Tags: The Tax Implications Of Widely Available Genetic Information, Kyle D. Logue, Joel B. Slemrod

Law & Economics Working Papers Archive: 2003-2009

This paper examines how progress in genetics' specifically, the proliferation of knowledge about the human genome' may influence the feasibility and desirability of a tax that is based on individual human endowments or ability. The paper explores various forms that such a genetic endowment tax-and-transfer regime might take and identifies some of the benefits and costs of such a regime. The authors take no position on whether a genetic endowment tax would be desirable or not. However, one contribution of the paper is to observe that current law in the U.S., which restricts the use of genetic information by insurers …

Ideological Battlefields, Clarence Holland

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

November 2007, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Ex-Mexican Prez: Yes, There Will Be an Amero Currency 1

Four Ways to Redefine Sales 10

Jump-Start Your Staff's Zest to do Their Best 13

Long-Term Real Estate Investment Outlook Favorable 14

Organization 15

Special Report: Top Ten Action Items Needed to Succeed in Today's Real Estate Market 20

Shulls Honored, Julie Haas

This Month

Dick and Barbara Shull, Leawood, have been named by the JCCC Foundation as the Johnson Countians of the Year for 2007.

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This Month

This is the full issue of This Month for November 2007.

Patient Care News: November 2007, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Calling/Paging Housewide Resources

Lung Cancer Awareness

Dysphagia Diet

Share your Holiday Spirit Cardiac Arrest Awards

Order Entry & Verification

Clinical Ladder

Daily Announcements November 2007, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2007-11, Office Of Public Affairs

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

November 2007: National American Indian & Alaska Native Heritage Month, Dacus Library

Dacus Docs News

No abstract provided.

The Forum (Volume 37, Number 3), Valparaiso University School Of Law

Valparaiso Law School Forum

No abstract provided.

Clinic Variation In The Cost-Effectiveness Of Contingency Management, Todd A. Olmstead, Nancy M. Petry

UCHC Articles - Research

This study determined whether, and by how much, the cost-effectiveness of contingency management (CM) varied across the eight clinics in the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network MIEDAR trial. Incremental costs, incremental outcomes, and incremental costeffectiveness ratios (ICERs) of CM compared to usual care were calculated, compared and contrasted for each of the clinics. Results showed that the incremental cost of using CM compared to usual care varied by a factor of 1.9 across the clinics, ranging from an additional $306 to an additional $582 per patient. The effect of CM on the longest duration of continuous stimulant …

Concurrent Brief Versus Intensive Smoking Intervention During Alcohol Dependence Treatment, Mark D. Litt, Judith L. Cooney, Cheryl A. Oncken

UCHC Articles - Research

Alcohol dependent smokers (N = 118) enrolled in an intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program were randomized to a concurrent brief or intensive smoking cessation intervention. Brief treatment consisted of a 15-minute counseling session with 5 min follow-up. Intensive intervention consisted of three one-hour counseling sessions plus eight weeks of nicotine patch therapy. The cigarette abstinence rate, verified by breath CO, was significantly higher for intensive (27.5%) versus brief (6.6%) treatment at one month post quit date but not at six months when abstinence rates fell to 9.1% and 2.1%. Smoking treatment assignment did not significantly impact alcohol outcomes. …

Variation In Gabra2 Predicts Drinking Behavior In Project Match Subjects, Lance O. Bauer, Jonathan Covault, Ofer Harel, Sourish Das, Henry R. Kranzler

UCHC Articles - Research

Background Previous studies have demonstrated, and replicated, an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the GABRA2 gene and risk for alcohol dependence. The present study examines the association of a GABRA2 SNP with another definition of alcohol involvement and with the effects of psychosocial treatment. Methods European-American subjects (n=812, 73.4% male) provided DNA samples for the analysis. All were participants in Project MATCH, a multi-center randomized clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of three types of psychosocial treatment for alcoholism: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET), or Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF). The daily probabilities of drinking and heavy …

Xml Encoding Of Features Describing Rule-Based Modeling Of Reaction Networks With Multi-Component Molecular Complexes, Michael L. Blinov, Ion I. Moraru

UCHC Articles - Research

Multi-state molecules and multi-component complexes are commonly involved in cellular signaling. Accounting for molecules that have multiple potential states, such as a protein that may be phosphorylated on multiple residues, and molecules that combine to form heterogeneous complexes located among multiple compartments, generates an effect of combinatorial complexity. Models involving relatively few signaling molecules can include thousands of distinct chemical species. Several software tools (StochSim, BioNetGen) are already available to deal with combinatorial complexity. Such tools need information standards if models are to be shared, jointly evaluated and developed. Here we discuss XML conventions that can be adopted for modeling …

Mitochondrio Fills The Gap, Research Trends Editorial Board

Research Trends

A good idea is not enough to launch a new journal; there must also be demand for it. Bibliometric analysis of a newly launched journal can demonstrate how it contributes to the community it serves and whether it is meeting this demand.

A Sweet Deal For Sugar , Jeff Leblanc

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Unbridled Power And The Wild Horses And Burros Act. Fund For Animals, Inc. V. U.S. Bureau Of Land Management, Amy Gleghorn

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

What Does "Contamination" Mean? The Second Circuit's Approach To An Insurance Policy's Contamination Exclusion. Parks Real Estate Purchasing Group V. St. Paul Fire And Marine Ins. Co., Robert Cornejo

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

No abstract provided.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 9 No. 6 (November/December 2007), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Healthy You, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Healthy You

No abstract provided.

Country Patterns Of Behavior On Broader Dimensions Of Human Development, Gustav Ranis, Frances Stewart, Emma Samman

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Identifiability And Estimation Of Causal Effects In Randomized Trials With Noncompliance And Completely Non-Ignorable Missing-Data, Hua Chen, Zhi Geng, Xiao-Hua Zhou

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

In this paper we first studied parameter identifiability in randomized clinical trials with noncompliance and missing outcomes. We showed that under certain conditions the parameters of interest were identifiable even under different types of completely non-ignorable missing data, that is, the missing mechanism depends on the outcome.We then derived their maximum likelihood (ML) and moment estimators and evaluated their finite-sample properties in simulation studies in terms of bias, efficiency and robustness. Our sensitive analysis showed the assumed non-ignorable missing- data model had an important impact on the estimated complier average causal effect (CACE) parameter. Our new method provides some new …