... childhood and increased risk of compromising sexualbehaviors (including high rates of risky sex, frequent sexual activity, early sexual debut, low rates ofcondom use, high numbersofsexual partners, ... such as increased numbersofsexualpartnersand lower levels of contraceptive use [5,7], which Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health ... high-risk sexual behavior The associations of increasing violence and substance abuse with the onset of early sexual activity and association of early substance abuse with high-risk sexual behavior...
... Nature of the Elder Abuse The allegations of elder abuse were reported as 140 (61.4%) cases ofsexual abuse, 15 (6.6%) of physical abuse, 62 (27.2%) cases of physical andsexual abuse, (3%) cases of ... confirmed cases of elder sexual abuse The group also provided the cases for analysis for Chapter of analyzing characteristics of elder victims ofsexual abuse and their offenders Pilot Forensic Bruising ... Boston College for record reviews of elder victims ofsexual abuse and their offenders andfor interviews with convicted offenders of elder victims Separate IRB approvals and consent of the inmate...
... anal, and oral insertive sexual events, protected (condom used) and unprotected; and (3) unprotected sexual behavior and events: unprotected vaginal, anal, and oral sexual events Methods For the ... the time of a sexual event, for a total of 242 sexual http://www.jiasociety.org/content/8/2/72 events (2.4% of all sexual events) with an adjusted number of 12 exposed partners (1% of all partners) ... at time andpartners at time 2, a maximum number ofpartners was used, not 10), the total adjusted number ofsexualpartners was 867 Nine of the 250 patients (3.6%) who engaged in any sexual behavior...
... is because one has β1,X Y (I(G)) = for • any of the c choices of Y equal to a single column in the overlap of the two rows, and • any of the (a − c)(b − c) choices of Y having two columns of size ... the straightforward proof of the following easy properties of the Gale orderings, which will be used in the proof of Theorem 3.13 below Proposition 3.2 The Gale orderings on P d and P+d−1 d share ... subclass of graphs of the form Gbip (D) for shifted skew diagrams D X,Y Proposition 3.7 Every Ferrers d-uniform hypergraph F is isomorphic to a d-partite duniform hypergraph of the form F (K...
... generation Random samples of 50 pullets per population were housed in the same facility For pullets, age and body weight at sexual maturity (production of first egg), weight of first egg and egg ... recorded as the age ofsexual maturity for each male Randomly chosen samples of 20 females per line were housed in individual cages at 18 wk of age Age and body weight at production of first egg were ... were higher for line L than line B Reciprocal effects were significant for maturity of males, age and body weight at first egg of females and weights of 1st and 10th eggs Influence of heterosis...
... extensively used for conveying meaning and are particularly useful for teaching concrete items of vocabulary such as food or furniture, and certain areas of vocabulary such as places, professions, ... frequency ofuse To save time, and even more important to reduce possible stress caused by learning by heart many new words each lesson, learners should be aware of words with high frequency in useand ... descriptions of people, actions and activities (such as sports and verbs of movements) They often lend them selves easily to practice activities involving students' interaction For example, a set of pictures...
... Willowtwigs used for baskets are formed Adventitious buds form the clusters of curious thorns on the Honey-locust and the tufts of whip-like branches on the trunks and large limbs of the Elms ... surface caused by the allowance for growth None of the characteristics of trees afford a better opportunity for careful observation and study than the outer bark The Birches have bark that peels off ... book the barest outline of the parts of flowers and fruit andof their uses can be given Fig Flowers.—Parts The flowers of the Cherry or Apple will show the four kinds of organs that belong to...
... terminology for regulatory purposes Standardization of definitions and basic requirements for the useof terms Health professionals from different countries differ considerably in their useof medical ... (comments that may be of help to validators of reports of ADRs) Proposed definition of the term (including a list of published definitions) Basic requirements foruseof the term (for validating the ... important source of information for raising suspicions, a Former Director, Division of Drug Management and Use, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland xv generating early signals and confirming...
... entrances and exits, the windows and walls, the elevators and escalators and stairs and ramps, the cashier lines and teller lines and counter lines and restroom lines, and every inch of every ... day the year before, and sales within the various regions, and profitability by item and category and store and maybe even phase of the moon He knows all that When I asked how many of the people ... people and children We studied a chain of family-style restaurants whose outlets had too What Retailers and Marketers Don't Know 35 many tablesfor two and not enough tablesfor four, which caused...
... http://www.theiia.org/guidance/standards -and- practices/professional-practicesframework/definition -of- internal-auditing/ Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) 2007 Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing http://www.theiia.org/guidance/standards -and- practices/ professional-practices-framework/standards/ ... concern that the dual role of assurance provider and consultant can create bias and hence cause problems for internal audit objectivity Both Brody and Lowe (2000) and Ahlawat and Lowe (2004) examined ... and processes Fraser and Henry (2007) undertook a series of interviews of the finance director, the audit committee chair, and, where applicable, the head of internal audit and the director of...
... also at the forefront of efforts to understand and to help governments respond to new developments and concerns, such as corporate governance, the information economy, and the challenges of an ageing ... system in a reform of 1998 The objective of this report is to analyse the experience of the reform of the system of economic instruments for environmental protection in Armenia and to make recommendations ... recommendations26 and assess the reform of the Armenian system of economic instruments of environmental policy against them 5.1.1 Reduction of the Number of Chargeable Pollutants One of the main reform recommendations...
... (Hoekstra and Hung, 2002) The water footprint of the Dutch community for example also refers to the useof water for rice production in Thailand (insofar as the rice is exported to the Netherlands for ... water use efficiency The increasing demand for freshwater and the limited possibilities of raising supply urge for a greater efficiency in water use, that is: produce the same volume of goods and ... Postel et al (1996) about 20% of total runoff forms remote flows that cannot be appropriated and 50% forms uncaptured floodwater, so that only 30% of runoff remains foruse Although research in this...
... Selection of a pair of words wo E V1 and vo E V2, and a head transducer 3,10 to start the entire derivation ' Selection of a pair of dependent words w I and v~ and transducer M I given head words w and ... make useof both positive and negative instances of performing a task Here we take a positive instance to be the derivation of a "'correct" translation, and a negative instance the derivation of ... systems, a rough estimate of the effort required for completing the models for English to Chinese translation is 12 person-months for the transfer system and person-months for the transducer system...
... forest, sparse forest timber forest orchard, special use forest, timber forest, sparse forest orchard, timber forest, special use forest, sparse forest timber stand, sparse forest, firewood forest orchard, ... timber stand, sparse forest, firewood forest timber stand, shrubs, sparse forest timber stand, shrubs, sparse forest, firewood forests, protected forests timber stand, shrubs, protected forest, ... estimations of unused residues on data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (Liao 2004) We have taken the provincial-level availability of forest biomass residues and used the LHV of wood...
... owners and workers who verbally agreed to participate were sent information and consent forms The information forms provided detailed information about the study including an estimate of the ... moderate amounts of reading and form filling The information and consent forms should be kept as short as possible, and convey information about what the study will realistically require of the participant ... owners and workers participating Retention of Farms and Workers Retention of farms and workers throughout the study was good at 85% and 86% respectively between written consent and completion of...
... columns of the channel matrix are close to each other, and the channel is ill conditioned, and the performance of antenna grouping degrades When the sum of smaller two of (|A| + |F|), (|B| + |E|), and ... when the BPCU is for an IID channel We transmit two data streams of QPSK for the antenna grouping and the eigenmode transmission methods, and one data stream of 16-QAM for the beamforming mode The ... are for an IID channel and the dashed lines are for a highly correlated channel As in Figures and 5, the performance of mode selection is the best By examining Figure and the condition number of...