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Vol. 20 No. 1 (1997): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

Psychosocial Factors Differentiating Marijuana Users From Nonusers In Guam, Thomas K. Pinhey

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Contributors: Vol 20 No. 1, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Contributors list of Vol. 20 (1997): Pacific Studies Full Issue 1

Employment Status, Ethnicity, And Alcohol Use In Guam, Thomas K. Pinhey

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Ua25/2 Connections, Wku Human Resources

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Human Resources for the faculty and staff of WKU regarding personnel issues and benefits.

Where Do Elderly Veterans Obtain Care For Acute Myocardial Infarction: Department Of Veterans Affairs Or Medicare?, S M. Wright, J Daley, E S. Fisher, G E. Thibault

Dartmouth Scholarship

To examine Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Medicare hospitalizations for elderly veterans with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), their use of cardiac procedures in both systems, and patient mortality. DATA SOURCES: Merging of inpatient discharge abstracts obtained from VA Patient Treatment Files (PTF) and Medicare MedPAR Part A files. A retrospective cohort study of male veterans 65 years or older who were prior users of the VA medical system (veteran-users) and who were initially admitted to a VA or Medicare hospital with a primary diagnosis of AMI at some time from January 1, 1988 through December 31, 1990 (N = …

Prenatal Cocaine Exposure And Mother–Infant Interaction: Implications For Occupational Therapy Intervention, Heather Miller-Kuhaneck

Occupational Therapy Faculty Publications

The literature from multiple disciplines on in utero cocaine exposure and mother–infant interaction and attachment was examined for possible relationships and implications for occupational therapists. Maternal cocaine use and neurobehavioral deficits in neonates prenatally exposed to cocaine may result in interactional difficulties between mother and infant. Knowledge of child development, sensory regulation, and infant cues will enable therapists to assist the mother in creating positive interactive experiences between herself and her child.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Résumé, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Les Indicateurs De Lésions En Santé Et Sécurité Du Travail Au Québec : Analyse Par Profession En 1991, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Outils De Collecte De Données, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

La Surveillance Biologique De L'Exposition Mixte En Milieu De Travail. Développement De Modèles En Vue De L'Interprétation Des Données De Surveillance Biologique De L'Exposition, Robert Tardif, Jules Brodeur

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Évaluation Biomécanique De Stratégies Distinguant Les Travailleurs Experts Et Novices, Micheline Gagnon, Alain Delisle

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Grande Entreprise Manufacturière Et Construction, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Réusinage De Produits De Métal, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Rénovation Générale De Produits De Métal, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Marquage Du Granit, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Choix D'Abrasifs, Acceptabilité Des Substituts De La Silice Et Adoption De Mesures Préventives Lors Du Sablage Au Jet : Unités Mobiles De Sablage Au Jet, Mario Roy, Lucie Fortier, Anne-Marie Robert, Danielle Giroux

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Impact De L'Utilisation Des Pistolets De Soudage Pourvus D'Une Buse D'Aspiration Sur L'Activation Musculaire Des Membres Supérieurs, La Perception Psychophysique Et La Qualité Des Assemblages Soudés, Yves Beauchamp, Denis Marchand, Michel Galopin, Marc Thomas

Rapports de recherche scientifique

No abstract provided.

Safety Guidelines For Occupational Hazards To The Reproductive System, Laverne Raquel Ogieste

Theses

Most workers are unaware of the hazards to the reproductive system that surround them in the workplace, and therefore, few if any precautions are taken to avoid unnecessary exposures. In this research, safety guidelines were developed in order to eliminate such dangers from occurring or reoccurring.

These guidelines were developed by reviewing case studies of occupational hazards to the reproductive system, including federal laws and regulations related to safety within the workplace. The following forms were also developed in order to formulate suitable safety guidelines for occupational hazards to the reproductive system. They are: an occupational reproductive survey, a reproductive …

Logger Killed When Struck By Tree, Kentucky Injury Prevention And Research Center

Fatality Case Reports--Tractors/Logging

A 59-year-old male was killed when he was struck by a tree while logging on a mountainside. The victim was working with two other men doing contract work for a local lumber company. All three men were full-time loggers and had many years of experience. On the morning of the incident, the men were working on a steep mountainside. One logger was working at the top of the hill operating a skidder that he owned to pull the cut trees up the hill. At the time of the incident, the victim was working about 30-35 feet from the top of …

A Comparison Of The Levels Of Patient Staffing Ratios And Staffing Mix To The Number Of Patient Falls In An Acute Care Setting, Candice Marie Peters

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Information About Primary Care Physicians Considered Most Useful By Managed Health Care Consumers, Janet Marie Webb

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Pay-Per-Visit For Home Health Agency Nurses, Paula Beth Peoples

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Opportunity, Community, And Teen Pregnancy In An Appalachian State, Robert Bickel, Susan Weaver, Tony Williams, Linda Lange

SHU Faculty Publications

Teen pregnancy has become an issue that educators and public policy makers are obliged to treat as a serious problem. Too often, explanations of teen pregnancy have included uncritical use of the notion of adolescents at risk. Recently, however, attention has been given to structurally-determined contextual factors in explaining teen pregnancy. Such contextual factors include economic and educational opportunities and costs, as well as chances for valued participation in socially and culturally stable communities. This interest in contextual factors parallels a development in the literature on high school dropouts. A data set previously employed to study variability in drop-out rates …

Ua66/14/4 Kentucky Partnership Newsletter, Vol. Iv, No. 1, Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health & Safety

University Organizations

Newsletter created by and about the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health & Safety.

Association Between Plasma Homocysteine, Vitamin Status, And Extracranial Carotid-Artery Stenosis In The Framingham Study Population, Jacob Selhub, Paul F. Jacques, Andrew G. Bostrom, Ralph B. D'Agostino, Peter W. F. Wilson, Albert J. Belanger, Daniel H. O'Leary, Philip A. Wolf, David Rush, Ernst J. Schaefer, Irwin H. Rosenberg

United States Public Health Resources

Recent epidemiologic studies suggest that elevated homocysteine concentrations in plasma represent a risk factor for vascular disease and stroke. In the present study, we analyzed plasma samples from the 20th biannual examination of the Framingham Heart Study cohort to determine distribution of plasma homocysteine concentrations, with emphasis on relationships to vitamins that are involved in homocysteine metabolism and prevalence of carotid artery stenosis. Results showed that homocysteine was positively correlated with age. After controlling for age and sex, homocysteine exhibited strong inverse correlation with plasma folate, and weaker correlations with plasma vitamin B₁₂ and pyridoxal- 5' -phosphate. Homocysteine was …

Cystathionine Β-Synthase Deficiency: Metabolic Aspects, S. Harvey Mudd

United States Public Health Resources

Cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) deficiency was first demonstrated in 1964 in an eight-year-old mentally retarded girl with bilaterally dislocated optic lenses who excreted abnormally elevated amounts of homocystine in her urine. Patients with similar metabolic abnormalities and clinical findings had first been discovered 2 years earlier by Carson and her colleagues during a survey of mentally backward children in Northern Ireland. CBS deficiency has proven to be the most frequently encountered of the human genetic diseases causing homocystinuria and severe hyperhomocyst(e)inemia. Worldwide, it is detected with a frequency of about 1: 344,000 by screening programs of the newborn, but this is …

Blood Homocysteine Levels In The National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (Nhanes Iii) In The United States: Preliminary Findings By Age And Sex, Irwin H. Rosenberg, Jacob Selhub, Paul F. Jacques, Barbara A. Bowman, Elaine W. Gunter, Clifford L. Johnson, R. S. Murphy

United States Public Health Resources

Evidence from scores of observational studies from many parts of the world have demonstrated an association between elevated blood total homocysteine levels and the risk of cardiovascular disease, peripheral vascular disease, and stroke. These conditions are more prevalent in males than in females in virtually all populations studied, and their prevalence increases with advancing age. A much smaller body of data exists that describes an increasing tendency to higher homocysteine levels with increasing age.

There have been no previous reports of blood homocysteine levels measured in a cross-sectional sample throughout the age spectrum from childhood through the elderly. However, the …

The Etiology Of Neural Tube Defects, J. M. Scott, D. G. Weir, A. Molloy, J. Mcpartlin, Leslie Daly, P. Kirke, M. Conley, J. Lee, J. Mills

United States Public Health Resources

Evidence continues to confirm that periconceptional ingestion of folic acid can prevent neural tube defects, although the basis of this prevention has been unclear. To further elucidate the mechanism by which this occurs, blood samples were collected from more than 50,000 pregnant women and the samples analyzed for red cell folate, plasma folate, plasma vitamin B12, and plasma homocysteine levels. Based on the results, it appears that the beneficial effect of folic acid is in overcoming a metabolic block in a folatedependent enzyme or transport process. It is likely that methionine synthase may be directly or indirectly involved.

The neural …

Cancer Mortality In Workers Exposed To Phenoxy Herbicides, Chlorophenols, And Dioxins, Manolis Kogevinas, Heiko Becher, Trevor Benn, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Paolo Boffetta, H. Bas Bueno-De-No-De-, David Coggon, Didier Colin, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Marilyn Fingerhut, Lois Green, Timo Kauppinen, Margareta Littorin, Elsebeth Lynge, John D. Mathews, Manfred Neuberger, Neil Pearce, Rodolfo Saracci

United States Public Health Resources

The authors examined cancer mortality in a historical cohort study of 21,863 male and female workers in 36 cohorts exposed to phenoxy herbicides, chlorophenols, and dioxins in 12 countries. Subjects in this updated and expanded multinational study coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer were followed from 1939 to 1992. Exposure was reconstructed using job records, company exposure questionnaires, and serum and adipose tissue dbxin levels. Among workers exposed to phenoxy herbicides contaminated with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) or higher chlorinated dioxins, mortality from soft-tissue sarcoma (6 deaths; standardized mortality ratio (SMR) = 2.03, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.75-4.43) …