findings from the virginia twin study of adolescent behavioural development

... institutions about their social media activities Last year’s inaugural study was, from what we could tell, one of the first studies conducted of the institutions themselves about how they use social ... involvement with the use of social media Another unit manages all of our social media activities, without any input from us Another unit manages all of our social media activities, with input from us ... any of the below areas that could help others, please note them Area Deployment of a specific social media tool or platform: Implementation of a specific evaluation approach: Application of social...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 19:20

... based on data from the Danish Ministry of Employment, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education DWECS was conducted in 1990, and featured a random sample drawn from the Central ... emigrated or died They were excluded from the study, as they were no longer under risk of disability pension in the follow-up period from 1994 through 2004 This left a total of 4174 employees ... than the working population in general This will reduce exposure contrast and reduce the generalizability of the results, and the findings may therefore not apply to the general population The...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... contributed to drafting the article RM participated in the design of the study, led the data collection for the second and third phases of the study, led the analysis of the qualitative data, and ... are members of the ACHR JL is also President of the ACHR for the Pan American Health Organization (WHO's regional office for the Americas) The Chair of the WHO ACHR, a member of the PAHO ACHR, ... (i.e., there may be a social desirability bias in their responses) What the multi-method study adds This synthesis of findings from the first multi-method study of its kind, along with the more...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... the presence of non-accidental falls in the past 12 months Furthermore, the SC R inclusion of different blocks of covariates in the model attenuated the association but even after inclusion of ... Given the rapid aging occurring in Europe, the scarcity of studies on MCI and D falls, and a complete lack of studies on this topic from Ireland, the aim of the present TE work was to evaluate the ... further attention from the viewpoint of prevention of dementia or cognitive decline However, despite the potentially important role that cognitive function plays in the occurrence of falls, the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 22:05

... 2004 the MOH has led the development of an inter-ministerial coordination body to guide ARH activities and the expansion of project elements to all areas of Senegal b Based on the findings of the ... UNICEF, UNFPA, and the Center for the Development of Population Activities (CEDPA) have used findings from the pilot study in their youth interventions Scaling up ARH activities in the experimental ... African Development Bank, which expressed a commitment to fund these activities This commitment followed the dissemination about the findings from the pilot project and the launch of the national...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... each) The mean index score for low-risk respondents was significantly higher than the mean for the high-risk group (p < 0.001) EQ-5D dimensions Examination of each of the dimensions of the EQ-5D ... the conception, design and coordination of the SHIELD study and helped to draft the manuscript KF performed the statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... facility for the measurement of health-related quality of life Health Policy 1990, 16:199-208 Shaw JW, Johnson JA, Coons SJ: US valuation of the EQ-5D health states: Development and testing of the D1...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... marketing, etc.) Other Figure 5: IT managers expect their areas of responsibility to shift over the next three years The findings of the 2010 IBM Global IT Risk Study revealed areas of focus that ... note that when the data from the 131 CIOs who responded to the survey was cross-referenced, the answers did not vary significantly from the IT managers surveyed While the significance of IT risk ... Examine the evolving role of IT managers, including the CIO In general, the findings of the survey were consistent across regions, company size, industry and roles (All regions represented in the study...

Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:16

... the Central, Southern and Northern Regions Slightly less than half of the Malawi population (47%) lives in the Southern region, while 41% and 12% live in the Central and Northern Regions of the ... as many respondents had lost their father (14%) than had lost their mother (8% of the females and 7% of the males) Approximately 6% of the respondents reported that they had lost both biological ... their mothers than their fathers: More lived with their biological mothers (73%) than with their biological fathers (62%) and fewer had no contact with their mothers (2%) than with their fathers...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... composition of the population of the country The last panel of Table 3.1 provides information on the wealth quintiles for the households of the adolescents interviewed, using the protocol from the Demographic ... meet the household or individual adolescent Interviewers were assigned to interview adolescents of the same sex because of the personal nature of the topics covered and the young age of the respondents ... for the last section of the questionnaire The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research of the University of Ghana, Legon, conducted the pretest with 292 adolescents aged 12–19 The...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... and Fig 3) The fruiting bodies of wild C militaris are expensive due to rarity and host specificity in nature Therefore, the production of adequate quantities of the fruiting bodies of wild C militaris ... stage of purification and fractionation, the method of ion exchange chromatography on DEAE cellulose column was used to separate neutral polysaccharides from acidic fractions The yield of the neutral ... that of dextran 3.6 Identification of anomeric configuration Fig Isolation and purification of polysaccharides extracted from the liquid culture broth of C militaris (A) Ion exchange chromatogram of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... of the overlaying topsoil stratum, state of the mixing of CCB with topsoil including the water regime (slope, flatland) that continues to change as a result of the building of other storeys of ... used for the analysis of the growth data With respect to the applied amendment (CCB) the evaluation of the growth vitality of forest tree species plants at the evaluated age also comprised the nutrient ... of soil properties of Anthroposols and growth vitality of the forest tree species plants: the assessment of texture, chemical and other soil properties of Anthroposols was done on the basis of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... hours of admission to the unit were excluded The rate of CLABSI is calculated by dividing the number of infections by the number of catheter-line days and is commonly expressed as the number of ... greater number of prevention behaviors and fewer barriers observed over the course of the intervention The greatest changes took place within the first six months of the intervention These findings ... predictive validity, most findings from this study support the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the TCT measures Page 11 of 13 we examined Furthermore, the low burden of this instrument,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... Integration of this project with the larger NHSII study This study will take advantage of the resources of the ongoing NHSII study, whose core functions including the infrastructure of data collection ... phone numbers from their survey, we have telephone numbers for over 62,000 of the study members and can access numbers for most of the rest of the cohort by sending a computer tape of names and ... participants of NHSII are Caucasian, middle to upper socioeconomic status (SES) and will be middle-aged (42–62 years of age) at the time of the current study The homogeneity of the sample offers some...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... on the design of the original survey study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper; SDC conceived and directed the original survey study and contributed to the ... encourages the seeking of professional help for problems that are assumed to derive from individual distress, or from the internalization of the stigma ascribed to homosexuality by some [58] Further, the ... conceived the idea for the paper, directed the data analyses, and drafted the paper; LG conducted the statistical analyses and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing of the paper;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... in the design of the study and the interpretation of the results All authors participated in revising the manuscript, and read and approved the final manuscript 19 20 Competing interests The ... representative nature of the sample of smokers in each country, coupled with the capacity to weight the data to improve the accuracy of estimates The main weakness is that this study only recruited ... forms of nicotine delivery was in the UK where significant efforts have been made over the past decade to promote the use of NRT as a substitute for cigarettes The main strength of this study is the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... evaluate the degree of emphysema [13] The CT scans were evaluated at the central imaging unit at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Emphysema was assessed by the percentage of the lung ... compare the limits of agreement between % and number/ml, the data were log transformed before calculating the limits of agreement These data were then back-transformed to express the limits of agreements ... participating in The Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE) cohort [11], with the aim of furthering our understanding of the value of this biomarker...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... accuracy tested The results from this analysis were then compared to the results for the model Results Development of the predictive model The 15 variables in the FLIP study are compared in the hospitalised ... used to remove the variables that contributed least to the discriminant function The elimination of a variable from the analysis was based on a comparison of the discriminant power of the function ... RSV study Firstly, the predictive variables identified from the FLIP dataset were used to generate a discriminant function from the data of the Munich RSV study itself Secondly, the non-normalised...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... was to evaluate whether the preliminary test results could be confirmed in a larger set of patients from the same study Materials and methods The details of the GO-FORWARD study have been previously ... proportion of women than the other treatment groups in the training subset In the test subset, mean baseline marker levels were similar among the treatment groups, with the exception of levels of myeloperoxidase, ... ENRAGE), and other selected proteins (bFGF, apoliprotein C3, and serum amyloid P) in two separate datasets from the same study of patients with inadequate responders to MTX The robustness of the analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... is given by the following formula: W = W1 * W2 * f1 * f2 * f3 * f4 where W1 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the school W2 = the inverse of the probability of selecting the classroom ... Characteristics of the study participants Altogether 7341 students participated in the survey Most of the students were females (63.8%), were of age 15 years or more (42.5%), and were in their 6th ... Forms 2–4) In the following factors, the "Never or Zero" category was recoded as "No" and the rest of the categories as "Yes" During the past 30 days, how often did you go hungry because there was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... The small decline in the percent receiving family planning services in the last 12 months from 36.5 to 32.9 percent—may result from the aging of the population 15–44 years of age The number of ... in the years 1991–94 In each individual calendar year and for the sum of the years 1991–94, the NSFG estimate of the number of births is very close to the birth certificate total and differs from ... youngest child was 5–12 years of age, 20 percent of mothers of children 11–12 years of age allowed the child to care for her/himself at least part of the time while the mother was working For women...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20