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Construct Validity Of Dimensions Of Adaptive Behavior: A Multitrait-Multimethod Evaluation., Alan W. Stacy, Keith F. Widaman, Sharon A. Borthwick-Duffy

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The construct validity of four dimensions of adaptive and maladaptive behavior was investigated using the multitrait-multimethod matrix procedure of Campbell and Fiske (1959). Measures off our traits cognitive competence, social competence, social maladaption, and personal maladaption were obtained on a sample of 157 persons with moderate, severe, or profound mental retardation using each of three methods of measurement-standardized assessment instrument, day shift staff ratings, and evening shift staff ratings. Applying the Campbell and Fiske rules of thumb and recently proposed structural equation modeling techniques to the data demonstrated strong convergent validity, clear discriminant validity, and only moderate levels of method …

Preliminary Work On Development Of A New Hearing Aid Booklet For Parents Of Young Hearing Impaired Children, Kelly Wassell, Susan Hummer

Independent Studies and Capstones

The purpose of this study was to evaluate current materials given to parents of new hearing aid users.

Preliminary Work On Development Of A New Hearing Aid Booklet For Parents Of Young Hearing Impaired Children, Susan Hummer, Kelly Wassell

Independent Studies and Capstones

The purpose of this study was to evaluate current materials given to parents of new hearing aid users.

A Retrospective Study Assessing The Relative Clinical Value Of Performing Vra Versus Abr On Infants Between The Ages Of Seven And Twelve Months, Nickey S. Martino

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to test two methods of hearing screening for infants--visual reinforcement audiometry and auditory brainstem responses.

Procedures For Selecting Hearing Aid Compression Ratios Based On Individual Loudness Judgements, Matthew F. Lucas

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper examines the selection of compression ratios for hearing aids.

Dialogue Journal Writing: An Effective Method Of Improving The Writing Skills Of Hearing-Impaired Children?, Rollen M. Cooper

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study to determine if dialogue journal writing can improve the writing skills of hearing impaired children.

Developing A Set Of Materials To Teach Hearing Children About Hearing Impairment, Christine Finley

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper contains a set of materials to help hearing persons understand hearing loss.

The Effects Of Noise Exposure On Rock Bands, Karen Schaff

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper describes a study undertaken to study noise levels of rock music.

Elaine Paden's Phonological Assessment Of The Hearing Impaired, Julie Margaret Foley

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper is a study of the phonological test, Identifying Early Phonological Needs, and determining whether it is useful to plan speech therapy for young unintelligible hearing impaired children.

Tactile Errors Of Localization On The Sternums Of Tactaid Vii Users And Non-Users, Eric J. Frederick

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study done to test tactile errors of localization abilities, with and without a Tactaid VII communication aid.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Creating A Captioned Version, Debra K. Blauman

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study done of hearing impaired children and watching a captioned film.

Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions In High-Risk Neonates, Michelle L. Scheidt

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses a study done of neonates to determine the differences between ABR and DPOE for hearing screening.

Made To Fit A Woman: Riding Uniforms Of The Frontier Nursing Service, Donna C. Parker

SCL Faculty and Staff Publications

The riding uniform of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) conveyed a powerful image of the nurse-midwife as authority figure and professional. In the eastern Kentucky mountains the FNS nurse brought desperately needed health care to the people. Their distinctive, horizon-blue uniform provided instant recognition, and therefore protection, to the nurse-midwife who relied on local residents for help. The sensible, military-styled uniform reinforced the nurse’s authority and reassured patients of receiving expert care. The dress unified staff working towards a common goal making them feel like a family and team. Wearing her uniform proudly, the properly attired nurse represented the high …

The Development Of A Computerized Version Of A Revised W-1 Word List For Obtaining Speech Reception Thresholds, Sara C. Meyers

Independent Studies and Capstones

This paper discusses the creation of a condensed list SRT application of the W-1 for the Macintosh computer.

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

University Organizations

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

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1993, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1993 nursing class: Debra Abel, Clara Anderson, Debbie Baker, Valerie Barnes, Crystal Blackburn, Michelle Boone, Susan Branstetter, Ashlea Brooks, Michelle Caudill, Jennifer Cecil, Donna Croslin, Kristin Dangremond, Mary Danhauer, Rebecca Denton, Melissa Dick, Amy Douglas, Cheryle Drane, Nancy Fuqua, Renee Gatto, Kellie Gillenwater, Melissa Grant, Sherri Herman, Tammy Jenkins, Kathy Kartin, Carolyn Kubic, Lysa Link, Rita McGinnis, Stacey McWhorter, Sandy Miller, Connie Nalley, Lorie Pace, Shelley Payne, Clint Perkinson, Shannon Ploutz, Lori Radford, Angela Reynolds, Melanie Rightmyer, Kimberly Ross, Sheila Schumer, Karla Stelmach, Dana Tatum, Jennifer Williams and Jill Wozniak.

A Dream For The Future Of Public Health, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

The following is a commencement address Dr. Guinan delivered at the Emory University School of Public Health in May 1992, just weeks after riots erupted in response to the Rodney King verdict. Her remarks were very timely, but her message is timeless. It is just as relevant today, more than a year later, as it was that day.

Alternatives In The 90'S: What's Next?, Henry Spira

Conference Presentations

The 80's was a decade of remarkable and innovative research and development of alternatives. We see the 90’s as the decade of validation and implementation.

From an activist's perspective, the 80's was very encouraging,-- alternatives gained acceptance, legitimacy and credibility within the toxicology, corporate and regulatory communities. And The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at Johns Hopkins University played a significant role in making this acceptance possible.

But these new technologies have yet to realize their full potential; the focus to date has been on development more than on bringing these technologies into routine usage. And the public, …

“Sound” Alternatives To Visual Graphics For Exploratory Data Analysis, John H. Flowers, Terry A. Hauer

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Efficient exploratory data analysis (EDA) maybe aided by succinct, but informative, graphical representations (e.g., Tukey plots) that convey information about central tendency, variability, and shape of distributions, and that permit detection of outliers. Using research strategies adapted from studies of cross-modal perceptual equivalence, we show how auditory analogies of such displays may offer an effective alternative to visual plots for EDA.

Genetic Identificationo F A Hantavirusa Ssociated With An Outbreako F Acute Respiratoryi Llness, Stuart T. Nichol, Christina F. Spiropoulou, Sergey Morzunov, Pierre E. Rollin, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Heinz Feldmann, Anthony Sanchez, James E. Childs, Sherif Zaki, Clarence J. Peters

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

A mysterious respiratory illness with high mortality was recently reported in the southwestern United States. Serologic studies implicated the hantaviruses, rodent-borne RNA viruses usually associated elsewhere in the world with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. A genetic detection assay amplified hantavirus-specific DNA fragments from RNA extracted from the tissues of patients and deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) caught at or near patient residences. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed the associated virus to be a new hantavirus and provided a direct genetic link between infection in patients and rodents.

Cognitive Motivations And Sensation Seeking As Long-Term Predictors Of Drinking Problems, Alan W. Stacy, Michael D. Newcomb, Peter M. Bentler

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

The development of comprehensive theories regarding the determinants of
vulnerability toward drinking problems depends in part on longitudinal evidence
linking psychosocial precursors to clinically-relevant problem consequences. In
an investigation of some of the more promising psychosocial precursors of
problem vulnerability, we evaluated the long-term predictive effects of adolescent
cognitive motivations for alcohol use and sensation seeking on a wide variety of
adult drinking-problem consequences including driving while intoxicated (DWI).
Results indicated that the Cognitive Motivation factor was a significant, independent, nine-year predictor of a factor of Drinking-Problem Consequences. Over this same period, certain cognitive motivation and sensation seeking indicators independently …

College Of Osteopathic Medicine Student Handbook, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

No abstract provided.

Ua12/12 Preston Center News, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Wku Intramural & Recreational Sports

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Preston Center regarding services and intramural sports.

Ua60/5 Wku Dental Hygiene Class Of 1993, Wku Dental Hygiene

WKU Administration Documents

Members of the 1993 dental hygiene class: Tina Sanford, Jennifer Peck, Lisa Hawthorne, Wendl Brooks, Stacey Carter, Sherrie Smith, Melinda Simmons, Shana Snodgrass, Janet Redmond, Ashley Marcin, Wanda Jones, Theresa Glenn, Stacy Escue, Lea Brown, Melba Harris and Rhonda Casteel.

Harpoon Extraction Of A Common Bile Duct Stone Impacted At The Ampulla Of Vater With Needle-Knife Sphincterotome., Vivian Mcalister, Andre Roy, Ron Passi

Data and Test Instruments

The urgency of dealing with impacted ampullary stones is underlined in the first case reported by Opie6 at the autopsy of a young woman. Impacted ampullary stones that prevent papillary cannulation and standard sphincterotomy make up less than 5% of common bile duct stones seen at ERCP.3 Several series suggest the safe use of needle-knife sphincterotomy to create a choledochoduodenal fistula or to allow subsequent standard sphincterotomy in this situation. These series have also reported failure to extract the stone so that surgical removal was required.3,4Successful sphincterotomy may facilitate the early diagnosis of tumors that cause the ampulla to bulge. …

Rapamycin-Induced Inhibition Of P34(Cdc2) Kinase Activation Is Associated With G1/S-Phase Growth Arrest In T Lymphocytes, W. G. Morice, Gregory J. Brunn, Gregory Wiederrecht, John Siekierka, R. T. Abraham

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The macrolide rapamycin (RAP) is a potent inhibitor of interleukin-2 (IL- 2)-induced T-cell proliferation. Current models suggest that RAP, when complexed to its intracellular receptor, FK506-binding protein, interferes with an IL-2 receptor-coupled signaling pathway required for cell-cycle progression from G1- to S-phase. Here we show that RAP treatment inhibits the growth of an IL-2-dependent cytotoxic T-cell line, CTLL-2, in late G1- phase, just prior to entry of the cells into S-phase. In contrast, RAP- treated CTLL-2 cells retained the ability to respond to IL-2 with enhanced cytolytic activity, indicating that RAP was not a general suppressant of cellular responsiveness to …

Infection With A Ratborne Hantavirus In Us Residents Is Consistently Associated With Hypertensive Renal Disease, Gregory E. Glass, Alan J. Watson, James W. Leduc, Gabor D. Kelen, Thomas C. Quinn, James E. Childs

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

A survey of 8080 subjects was conducted in Baltimore, examining the association between infection with hantaviruses and renal disease. Two groups (N = 6060) with no known risk factors were selected to establish a baseline antibody prevalence. Overall, antibody prevalence was 0.25%. Seroprevalence increased with age, without sex- or race-related differences. Patients with proteinuria showed the same patterns of infection but were more commonly seropositive (1.46%) than the reference group( OR, 3.23; P < .05). Infection among dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease was 2.76%, significantly higher than in the reference group( OR, 5.03; P < .05). In the proteinuria and the dialysis groups, hantavirus infection was consistently associated with a diagnosis of hypertensive renal disease. The association was unrelated to other chronic renal disease diagnoses. Overall, 6.5% of patients with end-stage renal disease due to hypertension were seropositive for a hantavirus. These data suggest that hantavirus infection is associated with hypertensive renal disease.

Exploiting Structural Differences Among Heteroduplex Molecules To Simplify Genotyping The Dqa1 And Dqb1 Alleles In Human Lymphocyte Typing, Peter A. Zimmerman, Mary Carrington, Thomas B. Nutman

United States Public Health Resources

A novel approach to DNA probe hybridization and heteroduplex analysis, termed directed heteroduplex analysis (DHDA) is presented here to illustrate its utility in simplification of human lymphocyte antigen (HLA)- typing. By strategic labeling of single-stranded probe sequences, DHDA allows the identification of specific heteroduplex structures that contribute to the differentiation of DQAI and DQB1 alleles. Because of the high degree of polymorphism among major histocompatibility complex class 11 second exon sequences, this analysis of 50 different heteroduplex molecules provides evidence of the importance of unpaired bases and mismatched base pairs and their effect on heteroduplex electrophoretic-mobility differences. This strategy is …

Penile Constrictive Band Injury, Zafar Nazir, Khalid Rasheed, Farhat Moazam

Section of Paediatric Surgery

Penile strangulation caused by a thread or human hair is an uncommon cause of urethral injury described in paediatric piactice. Five children presented with this entity to the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi between August, 1991 and August, 1992. Three children had uneventful recoveries after removal of the contricting agent. Two patients developed urethrocutaneaus fistulae and partial amputation of the penis because of late presentation Early recognition and removal of the constricting agent is necessary to prevent serious complications

The Development Of Microbicides: A New Method Of Hiv Prevention For Women, Christopher J. Elias, Lori L. Heise

HIV and AIDS

A critical review of current epidemiological trends and social science research demonstrates that there is an urgent need for expanding the range of female-controlled HIV prevention methods. Existing efforts to control the spread of HIV infection primarily through the encouragement of a reduction in the number of sexual partners, widespread condom promotion, and the control of other sexually transmitted infections are inadequate for many of the world's women. Underlying gender power inequities severely limit the ability of many women to protect themselves from HIV infection, especially in the absence of a prevention technology they can use, when necessary, without their …