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Socioeconomic factors and low birth weight in Mexico
(2005)
Laura
Torres-Arreola
Patricia
Constantino-Casas
Sergio
Flores-Hernandez
et al.
Although many socioeconomic factors related to low birth weight (LBW) have been identified, the specific role of each of them is not known, limiting the ability to use preventive actions in exposed populations.
Improving the Representativeness of Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance for Persons with HIV in the United States: The Rationale for Developing a Population-Based Approach
(2007)
A
McNaghten
Mitchell
Wolfe
Ida
Onorato
et al.
Historically, the legal authority for collecting and reporting data on cases of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, resides with state and local governments.
Empowering the physician-patient relationship: The effect of the Internet
(2007)
Pearl
Jacobson
Because the Internet provides laypersons with access to information that has traditionally only been available to experts, some argue that the Internet is helping health consumers to become more empowered.
The Design Of Effective Online Help In Web Applications
(2007)
Marie
Roy
Yves
Rannou
Lucie
Rivard
In more recent years, more sophisticated forms of online assistance are available, such as embedded and contextual help, search engines, wizards, videos, audio, etc.
The Use of Strategic Metaphors in Intercultural Business Communication
(2007)
Sophie
Cacciaguidi-Fahy
James
Cunningham
The purpose of a metaphor is to view one thing in terms of or as a substitute for another.
Education for All, Only for Those Who Can Pay: The World Bank's Model for Financing Primary Education
(2005)
Katarina
Tomasevski
International human rights law requires progressive realisation of the right to education and envisages international cooperation as a means to remedy the inability of individual countries to attain at least the global minimum, namely, free and compulsory primary education until children reach the minimum age of employment.
Physicians' Intention to Educate About Emergency Contraception
(2008)
Patricia
Kelly
Marjorie
Sable
Lisa
Schwartz
et al.
Education about emergency conception (EC) coupled with advance prescription of EC for women under age 18, or in states where Medicaid or other insurance will cover, can make an important contribution to efforts to prevent unplanned pregnancies.
The Role of Gender in Immigrant Children's Educational Adaptation
(2006)
Desiree
Qin
At the beginning of the twentieth century, men attained significantly higher levels of education than women.
Tackling the Wider Determinants of Health Disparities in England: A Model for Evaluating the New Deal for Communities Regeneration Initiative
(2005)
Jayne
Parry, MD
Ken
Judge, PhD, MA
In classical epidemiological theory, the ability to predict the impacts of any intervention is critically dependent upon a synthesis of all available existing evidence to produce a likely effect estimate, followed by the application of this estimate to the affected population.
Prostate Cancer: Focus on Therapeutic Vaccines
(2007)
Ellen
Guthrie
Mindi
Miller
More than 99% of prostate cancers develop in glandular cells and are termed adenocarcinomas .
Gender-specific effects of HIV protease inhibitors on body mass in mice
(2007)
Melinda
Wilson
Kimberly
Allred
Elizabeth
Kordik
et al.
Leptin plays a crucial role for regulating weight gain by controlling fat mass.
Ohio's latest botched execution is another reminder of why the death penalty should be abolished
(2009)
Staff
Writer
For more than two hours, prison personnel poked needles into convicted murderer Romell Broom, trying unsuccessfully to find a vein into which they could inject a dose of lethal drugs.
Promoting Awareness of Sexuality of Older People in Residential Care
(2005)
Lisa
Low
May
Lui
Diana
Lee
et al.
Sexuality involves the whole experience of a person's sense of self, and includes a person's ability to form relationships with others, feelings about themselves, and the impacts of the physiological changes of ageing on their sexual functioning.
The Pedagogy of African American Parents: Learning From Educational Excellence in the African American community
(2006)
Audrey
Watkins, PhD.
During slavery, even learning to read was a criminal act in some areas for many slaves, and in 1810 most southern Blacks were illiterate.
The New Global Financial Landscape: Why Egregious International Corporate Fraud Should Be Cognizable Under the Alien Tort Claims Act
(2006)
Joel
Slawotsky
Although Refco claimed $75 billion in assets at the time of its initial public offering (IPO), in October 2005, it subsequently conceded assets of $16 billion.
MANAGING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF TEACHING STAFF IN THE UNIVERSITY: Views of Finnish University Leaders
(2007)
Stephen
Anyamele, Ph.D.
In business and the professions there is a wide recognition that the skills of their staff need to be continually strengthened and enhanced.
Rewarding the Work of Individuals: A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
(2007)
Gordon
Berlin
The tax system penalizes some couples when they do marry, especially couples who earn like amounts and have combined annual earnings between $20,000 and $30,000.
The Role of Gender in Immigrant Children's Educational Adaptation
(2006)
Desiree
Qin
Theorizing the role of gender in immigrant children's adaptation and future mobility is especially important considering the emerging evidence of gendered pathways, which reveal that boys lag behind girls in academic settings across many ethnic groups.
Justice, Social Welfare Benefits, and Undocumented Immigrants
(2006)
Kenneth
Ville
According to Locke, a society is free to exclude some individuals and groups outside the social contract from its benefits and protection because "it injures not the freedom of the rest; they are left as they were in the liberty of the state of nature."
Monitoring processed, mature Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 particles immediately following treatment with a protease inhibitor-containing treatment regimen
(2005)
Heather
Baird
Andre
Marozsan
Michael
Lederman
et al.
The estimated time required for protease inhibitors to clear the majority of free virus particles from the circulation and activated cells (not latently infected or quiescent cells) is approximately 4 weeks.
Elevated Levels of Cholesterol-Rich Lipid Rafts in Cancer Cells Are Correlated with Apoptosis Sensitivity Induced by Cholesterol-Depleting Agents
(2006)
Ying
Li
Mi
Park
Sang-Kyu
Ye
et al.
It is also critical for liquid-ordered raft/caveolae formation by serving as a spacer between the hydrocarbon chains of sphingolipids.
Tolerated Failure or Missed Opportunities and Potentials for Teacher Leadership in Urban Schools?
(2006)
Jumanne
Sledge, Ed. D.
Pamela
Morehead, Ph.D.
Included among the responsibilities of teacher leaders is their ability to positively impact teacher expectations.
Effective use of course management systems to enhance student learning: Experimental Biology 2007
(2007)
Jonathan
Kibble
Jeffrey
Kingsbury
Beatriz
Ramirez
et al.
Course management systems are software packages that support teaching and learning by providing web-based tools, services, and resources.
It makes the world of difference: Benefits for children of lesbian parents of having their parents legally recognised as their parents
(2007)
Liz
Short
If a child is not recognised in law as the child of his or her non-birth mother, he or she is potentially disadvantaged in the areas of financial support (if his or her parents separate), inheritance (from his or her non-birth mother and her extended family), superannuation, and compensation.
UCCE helps community coalitions reduce childhood overweight
(2007)
Gloria
Espinosa-Hall
Diane
Metz
Margaret
Johns
et al.
Low-income neighborhoods lacked
supermarkets that stocked a variety of reasonably priced fresh produce, but had many liquor stores and fast-food restaurants.
