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Disparities In Self-Reported Activities Of Daily Living And Instrumental Activities Of Daily Living Disability Among Asian American Subgroups In The United States: Results From The National Health Interview Survey 2001-2003, Alberto Coustasse, Sejong Bae, Cody J. Arvidson, Karan P. Singh

Management Faculty Research

Background

The purpose of this study was to compare disability and functional limitations among elderly Asian American subgroups using datasets from the National Health Interview Survey 2001−2003.

Methods

This retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed whether activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) disabilities were different among Asian American subgroups in the United States using data retrieved from the 2001−2003 National Health Interview Survey. For comparing all Asian American subgroups, χ² analysis was applied for the bivariate comparisons.

Results

Rates of 7.1% and 12.2% for ADL and IADL disability, respectively, within Asian American group were found. The elder Chinese …

Communicator, Summer 2008, Wnec Alumni Association

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Household Assets And Health In China: Evidence And Policy Implications, Baorong Guo, Lin Zhang, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

China’s health care reform of the 1990s has not yielded much success. The market-oriented health system has resulted in declines in fairness of health services and efficiency of investment in the health sector. Further health care reform will be required. Among many options, asset-based policy has demonstrated some potential in domestic policy development. To provide evidence to inform health policy development in China, this study focuses on effects of household assets on health in China. Specifically, the current study examines how household assets may affect health status and how assets differ from income in predicting health status. Using a random …

Out Of The Blue: A Novel, Trans‐Atlantic Clade Of Geckos (Gekkota, Squamata), Tony Gamble, Aaron M. Bauer, Eli Greenbaum, Todd R. Jackman

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards were estimated from five nuclear protein-coding genes in separate and combined analyses using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. All analyses recovered a monophyletic trans-Atlantic gecko clade (Phyllodactylidae) consisting of the genera Asaccus, Haemodracon, Homonota, Phyllodactylus, Phyllopezus, Ptyodactylus, Tarentola and Thecadactylus. No other phylogenetic or taxonomic hypotheses have proposed linking these genera, which have been consistently grouped with other taxa outside of the clade. In this paper, we determine the relationships of this new clade to other major gekkotan groups, evaluate previous phylogenetic hypotheses regarding constituent members of this novel clade, and critically …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 29, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 22, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 15, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Service Quality Radar Map And Two-Stage Service Quality Score, Kee-Kuo Chen, Ding-Hsun Hsiao, Cheng-Hung Arthur Hsieh

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

In an attempt to portray all information released from the service quality studies the service quality radar map (SQRM), is designed in this paper firstly and a generalized service quality score GSQS follows. GSQS is defined by way of the weighted average of differences between relative frequencies of customers’ performance perception and performance expectation, thus can avoid the problems involved in the gap-based SERVQUAL scale and caused by skewed distributions. A special case of GSQS, the stochastic dominance service quality score (SDSQS) whose ideal come from the second stochastic dominance criterion is used to illustrate how a standardized score can …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 8, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, June 1, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Stepping Up The Pressure: Arousal Can Be Associated With A Reduction In Male Aggression, Andrew Ward, T. Mann, E. H. Westling, J. D. Creswell, J. P. Ebert, Matthew Richard Wallaert , '05

Psychology Faculty Works

The attentional myopia model of behavioral control [Mann and Ward, 2007] was tested in an experiment investigating the relationship between physiological arousal and aggression. Drawing on previous work linking arousal and narrowed attentional focus, the model predicts that arousal will lead to behavior that is relatively disinhibited in situations in which promoting pressures to aggress are highly salient. In situations in which inhibitory pressures are more salient, the model predicts behavior that is relatively restrained. In the experiment, 81 male undergraduates delivered noise-blasts against a provoking confederate while experiencing either high or low levels of physiological arousal and, at the …

Inventory Of The 19Th Century Missionary Works In Chinese At The Asian Division, The Library Of Congress, U.S.A., Mi Chu, Man Shun Yeung, Ariele Bernard

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Engaging Diverse Secondary Students In International Collaborative Networked Learning, C. Candace Chou, Chi-Syan Lin, Mark Van ‘T Hooft, Yi-Me Lin

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

This study examines the processes of engaging a group of highly diverse 7th and 8th grade students in the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) for collaborative activities through a global networked learning environment called APEC Cyber Academy. Thirty-six middle school students went through a nine-week project-based learning program that aimed at improving ICT skills and promoting international peer learning. Although students showed strong interest in learning about ICT, the findings suggest that students need to be coached in collaboration skills, given appropriate roles to ensure proper division of labor, and supervised closely to ensure the completion of tasks.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 25, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 18, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 11, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 4, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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If Our Students Fail, We Fail, If They Succeed We Succeed: Case Studies Of Boston Schools Where Latino Students Succeed, Eileen De Los Reyes, David Nieto, Virginia Diez

Gastón Institute Publications

This report focuses on the findings of five case studies of Boston schools whose Latino students are succeeding academically. The purpose of the study is to identify the characteristics of schools where Latino students succeed so that it can serve as a guide to educators as they plan for programs directed at these students as well as to parents as they choose educational settings for their children.

If Our Students Fail, We Fail. If They Succeed We Succeed reports on case studies of the Manassah E. Bradley Elementary, the Hugh R. O’Donnell Elementary, the Donald McKay K-8 School, Fenway High …

Disturbances, Prescribed Fire, And Invasion By Exotic Plants In A Xeric Mixed-Oak And Oak-Pine Dominated Area Of The Ridge And Valley In Eastern West Virginia, Jonathan A. Pomp

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This document discusses three fire and exotic invasive plant related research studies that were conducted in an area of the Ridge and Valley dominated by xeric mixed-oak and oak-pine forest communities. The first study characterizes the timing, frequency, and magnitude of canopy disturbances in the study area by investigating demographic (age distributions), anatomical (growth increment patterns), and structural (diameter distributions) evidence. In addition to the general reconstructed disturbance history, the potential link between overstory tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima (P. Mill.) Swingle) populations and prior forest management disturbances (i.e. harvesting) is investigated. This study indicates an uneven-aged structure resulting from multiple disturbances …

Affection, Virtue, Pleasure, And Profit: Developing An Understanding Of Friendship Closeness And Intimacy In Western And Asian Societies, M Gummerum, M Keller

School of Psychology

The development of friendship understanding has rarely been explored from a cross-cultural perspective. In this study, children and adolescents from Iceland, China, Russia, and the former East Germany were investigated in one longitudinal and three cross-sectional samples. Children from three different Chinese ecologies were interviewed to account for within-culture variation. Participants were interviewed about friendship closeness and intimacy at ages 7, 9, 12, and 15 years. Their statements were scored according to (a) structural—developmental stages and (b) content aspects of friendship reasoning. Results reveal that the development of friendship reasoning of participants from all societies could be captured by the …

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 27, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

No abstract provided.

Campus Chronicle (Vol. 10, No. 32), Valparaiso University

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 20, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, April 13, 2008, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2008

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A Bibliographic Guide To The Criminal Law Literature Of The People’S Republic Of China: 1949-2000, Zhai Jianxiong

International Journal of Legal Information

Mr. Zhai presents a bibliographic guide listing the major sources of criminal law literature of the People’s Republic of China published during 1949-2000. The fifty year span is divided into three phases, each containing a selective bibliography on criminal law representative of academic scholarship of the corresponding period.

The Mayfly Newsletter, Peter M. Grant

The Mayfly Newsletter

The Mayfly Newsletter is the official newsletter of the Permanent Committee of the International Conferences on Ephemeroptera.

The Ironical Exclusion Of Women From Harvard Law School, 1870–1900, Bruce A. Kimball, Brain S. Shull

Journal of Legal Education

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Does Parenting Affect Children's Eating And Weight Status?, Alison K. Ventura, Leann L. Birch

Kinesiology and Public Health

Background: Worldwide, the prevalence of obesity among children has increased dramatically. Although the etiology of childhood obesity is multifactorial, to date, most preventive interventions have focused on school-aged children in school settings and have met with limited success. In this review, we focus on another set of influences that impact the development of children's eating and weight status: parenting and feeding styles and practices. Our review has two aims: (1) to assess the extent to which current evidence supports the hypothesis that parenting, via its effects on children's eating, is causally implicated in childhood obesity; and (2) to identify a …

Journals That Automatically Deposit In Nih Pubmed Central

NIH PubMed Central Depositors' Information

List of 405 journals (as of March 9, 2008) that automatically deposit all articles in PubMed Central. Publication in any of these journals will satisfy the NIH mandate for PubMed Central deposit of funded research--without any further effort on the authors' part.

The National Security Language Initiative And Less Commonly Taught Languages, Elvira Sanatullova-Allison

Dimensions

In response to the events of September 11, 2001, and subsequent international developments, President George W. Bush introduced in 2006 the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI). The NSLI identifies a number of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) as critical-need foreign languages and aims to further strengthen national security and prosperity in the 21st century by dramatically increasing the number of Americans studying these languages. To achieve this goal, under the direction of the President, various governmental agencies have developed a comprehensive national plan to expand U.S. foreign language education beginning in early childhood and continuing throughout formal schooling and into …