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Couldwell, William T. | Trends in the neurosurgical workforce in the United States (Neurosurgical workforce trends in the United States) | OBJECT: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the US neurosurgery workforce by reviewing journal recruitment advertisements published during the past 10 years. METHODS: The number of available academic and private neurosurgical staff positions was determined based on recruitment advertisements i... | Advertising; Internship and Residency; Neurosurgery; Personnel Selection | 2005-02-01 |
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Waitzman, Norman J. | Costs and benefits of folic acid fortification in the United States: economic analysis, regulatory action, and public health | The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required that as of January 1, 1998, manufacturers of enriched cereal- grain products fortify their products with folic acid to reduce the number of pregnancies affected by a neural tube defect (NTD). Prior to adoption of the regulation in 1996... | Nutrition; Gestation; Maturnity; Birth defects | 2004-10-14 |
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Hayes, Bradley T. | Immediate effects of muscular fatigue on postural stability and motoneuron pool excitability in healthy adults | 2011-04-27 | ||
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Seger, Jon | Conditional relatedness, recombination, and the chromosome numbers of insects | If two polymorphic loci are out of phase equilibrium, a homozygote at one of these loci is more highly related to its kin, at the other locus, than is an equivalent heterozygote. As a result, selection can favor (1) phenotypic responses to relative heterozygosity, and (2) increased recombination bet... | Coefficients of relatedness; Conditional relatedness | 1983 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | Background: We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on 15-29 year old respondents in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate mul... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation | 2006-11-10 |
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Kerber, Richard A. | Mitochondrial genomic analysis of late onset alzheimers disease reveals protective haplogroups H6A1A/H6A1B: the Cache County study on memory in aging | Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia and AD risk clusters within families. Part of the familial aggregation of AD is accounted for by excess maternal vs. paternal inheritance, a pattern consistent with mitochondrial inheritance. The role of specific mitochondrial... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Mitchell, Joyce A. | Evidence-based retrieval in evidence-based medicine | Objective: Clinical decisions based on a meta-analysis that is based on an ineffective retrieval strategy may have serious negative consequences for patients. The study objective was to investigate the extent to which meta-analyses report proof of their retrieval strategies' effectiveness. Methods: ... | 2004-01-01 | |
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McElreath, Richard | When natural selection favors imitation of parents | It is commonly assumed that parents are important sources of socially learned behavior and beliefs. However, the empirical evidence that parents are cultural models is ambiguous, and debates continue over their importance. A formal theory that examines the evolution of psychological tendencies to i... | Transmission; Evolution; Culture | 2008 |
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Aldous, Jay A. | Guide to oral health for non-dental health providers | Oral health and disease topics are not given significant coverage in the non-dental health professional curriculum. Yet all care providers can and should contribute to enhancing oral health. This guide provides information on the ways in which practitioners can incorporate oral health care and disea... | Oral health; Oral diseases | 2005 |
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Gardner, Reed M. | Standardization of Spirometry with Special Emphasis Field Testing | Biomedical Informatics | 1981 | |
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Varner, Michael W. | Maternal mortality in Utah. | OBJECTIVE: To determine trends in maternal deaths in Utah, identify opportunities for preventive intervention, and analyze the mechanism of reporting maternal deaths. METHODS: A retrospective review was performed of maternal death certificates and medical records in Utah from January 1, 1982, throug... | Maternal Death; Utah; Pregnancy; Trauma; Pulmonary Emboliam; Maternal Cardiac Disease | 1998-02 |
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Buchi, Karen F.; Varner, Michael W. | Changing prevalence of prenatal substance abuse in Utah. | OBJECTIVE: To estimate the current prevalence of prenatal exposure to methamphetamines and other drugs of abuse among infants born in Utah and compare the results with those of a maternal substance abuse prevalence study performed in 1991 in the same geographic area. METHODS: Thirteen well baby nurs... | Street Drugs; Prenatal Care; Maternal Exposure; Infant, Newborn | 2003-06-12 |
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Mo, Wenjing | Institutionalization among the elderly in Japan and China: a comparative study | 2013 Center on Aging Poster Retreat | 2013 | |
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Asche, Carl V. | Management of community-acquired respiratory tract infections in an era of increasing antibiotic resistance. | Community-acquired respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are prevalent conditions in U.S. and represent a major burden in health care. This article provides an overview of empirical antibiotic treatment options for patients with community-acquired RYIs, including newer classes of agents, such as the r... | Costs and Cost Analysis | 2006-02-01 |
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Del Fiol, Guilherme | Heuristics in managing complex clinical decision tasks in experts decision making | Background: Clinical decision support is a tool to help experts make optimal and efficient decisions. However, little is known about the high level of abstractions in the thinking process for the experts. Objective: The objective of the study is to understand how clinicians manage complexity while... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Caserta, Michael; Lund, Dale A. | Promoting self-care and daily living skills among older widows and widowers: evidence from the Pathfinders demonstration project | While most bereavement intervention programs for the recently widowed focus primarily on loss and grief issues, few, if any, specifically address ways to engage in necessary self-care activities, to assume new responsibilities that once belonged to their deceased spouse, and to remain socially conne... | Older widows; Older widowers; Bereavement intervention; Recently widowed; Daily living skills; Self-care; Pathfinders demonstration project | 2004-09-01 |
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Zick, Cathleen D.; Smith, Ken R.; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Physical activity during the transition from adolescence to adulthood | We examine how age, life course roles, and contextual variables relate to both the composition and the overall level of physical activity in late adolescence and early adulthood. Methods: Data on respondents age 15 to 29 y in the 2003 American Time Use Survey are used to estimate multivariate logist... | Time use; Active leisure; Team sports; Active transportation; Physical activity | 2007 |
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Sekercioglu, Cagan | Promoting community-based bird monitoring in the tropics: conservation, research, environmental education, capacity-building, and local incomes | Long-term, locally-based biodiversity monitoring programs are essential for understanding and mitigating the effects of global change on tropical biodiversity while providing capacity-building, environmental education, and public outreach. However, these programs are lacking in most tropical countri... | 2011-01-01 | |
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Smith, Timothy W. | Cellular aging and restorative processes: Subjective sleep quality and duration moderate the association between age and telomere length in a sample of middle-aged and older adults | Study Objectives: To examine whether subjective sleep quality and sleep duration moderate the association between age and telomere length (TL). Design: Participants completed a demographic and sleep quality questionnaire, followed by a blood draw. Setting: Social Neuroscience Laboratory. Participant... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Kowaleski-Jones, Lori | Influence of participation in the national school lunch program and food insecurity on child well-being | This study examines two research questions: the child- and family-specific factors that predict food insecurity and participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the effects on school-age children of food insecurity and participating in the NSLP. Results show that factors representin... | Children's nutrition; Children's diet; Child development | 2003-03 |
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Varner, Michael W. | Asthma during pregnancy | OBJECTIVE: To determine neonatal and maternal outcomes stratified by asthma severity during pregnancy by using the 1993 National Asthma Education Program Working Group on Asthma and Pregnancy definitions of asthma severity. The primary hypothesis was that moderate or severe asthmatics would have an ... | Asthma; Infant, Newborn; Pregnancy Outcomes | 2004-01 |
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Battin, Margaret P. | Age rationing and the just distribution of health care: is there a duty to die? | These lines express a view again stirring controversy: that the elderly who are irreversibly ill, whose lives can be continued only with substantial medical support, ought not to be given treatment; instead, their lives should be brought to an end. It should be recognized, as one contemporary politi... | 1987 | |
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Bernstein, Paul S. | HPLC measurement of ocular carotenoid levels in human donor eyes in the lutein supplementation era. | PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of the population at risk for visual loss from age-related macular degeneration consumes supplements containing high doses of lutein, but clinical studies to date have shown only modest and variable increases in macular carotenoid pigments in response to supplementa... | Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Dietary Supplements; Tissue Donors | 2007-02 |
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Francis, Leslie | Consumer expectations and access to health care | Americans-some of them at least-enjoy a remarkable range of expectations about their health care. They have come to rely on free choice of physicians, on autonomy and the doctrine of informed consent to care, on the belief that they can get the best care money can buy, on the assumption that resourc... | Consumer expectations | 1992 |
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McDaniel, Susan | Intergenerational transfers, social solidarity, and social policy: unanswered questions and policy challenges | Le transfert intergenerationnel constitue l'essence de la continuite societale et pourtant, il demeure mal conceptualise et analyse. Il se situe Egalement au centre du concept de l'etat sur le bien-etre quant a la redistribution des ressources et partant, des changements/defis actuels quant aux mes... | Intergenerational transfers; Social solidarity; Social continuity; Redistribution | 1997 |