<p>This study examined changes in African American adolescents' racial identity content (e.g., connectedness, awareness of racism, and embedded achievement) and academic adjustment (e.g., Academic and disciplinary adjustment, ...

<p>Background: Over one million people have HIV infection in the United States (U.S.), where HIV has permeated all regions of the nation and all ethnic and racial groups. HIV transmission occurs through a number of mechanisms, ...

<p><bold>Introduction:</bold> Intervertebral disc herniation may contribute to nerve root compression or inflammatory processes that are associated with radicular pain and motor deficits. Molecular changes at the affected ...

<p>This paper examines how Beckett and Coetzee probe the limits of the human (physically, psychologically, spiritually, legally, politically) and compares and contrasts these two writers (who operate in a more-or-less ...

<p>This thesis explores the intersection of social science and judicial decision making. It examines to what extent, and in what contexts, judges utilize social science in reaching and bolstering their rulings. The thesis ...

<p>Problem: Among HIV positive women in Kenya, cervical cancer has the highest incidence of any malignancy. In order to create effective screening strategies for both the primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer ...

<p>The Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) is a method for semiquantitative evaluation of radiotracer accumulation on PET scans. Changes in SUV can be used to determine treatment response. However, SUV measurements are ...

<p>Every day, 1,300 children in the U.S. and an additional 34,000 children worldwide are born prematurely. This study acts as a feasibility study for a proposed ultrasonic technique for the identification of preterm birth ...

<p>Compared to full weight infants, low birth weight infants are at greater risk for short and long term health consequences. Maternal exposure to air pollution is associated with low birth weight, although these studies ...

<p>Estimation of a time-varying field is essential for situational awareness in many subject areas. Adaptive processing often assumes both the field is stationary and the array is fixed for multiple observation windows. ...