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Analysis of traumatic injuries presenting to a referral hospital emergency department in Moshi, Tanzania

Casey, Erica; Thielman, Nathan Maclyn; Ossmann, Eric William; Hocker, Michael Brian; Gerardi, Charles (SpringerOpen, 2012-06)

Background Injuries represent a significant and growing public health concern in the developing world, yet their impact on patients and the emergency health-care system in the countries of East Africa has received limited ...
Correlates of Poor Health among Orphans and Abandoned Children in Less Wealthy Countries: The Importance of Caregiver Health

Ostermann, Jan; Whetten, Kathryn; Whetten, Rachel; O'Donnell, Karen Jones (Public Library of Science, 2012-06)

Background More than 153 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the loss of one or both parents, and millions more have been abandoned. We investigated relationships between the health of orphaned and abandoned ...
Female Agency and Early Modern Urbanism: the Paris of Marie de Medici

Galletti, S (2012-06)
The Development and Psychometric Properties of the HIV and Abuse Related Shame Inventory (HARSI)

Neufeld, Sharon A. S.; Sikkema, Kathleen J.; Lee, Rachel S.; Kochman, Arlene; Hansen, Nathan B. (Springer Verlag, 2012-05)

Shame has been shown to predict sexual HIV transmission risk behavior, medication non-adherence, symptomatic HIV or AIDS, and symptoms of depression and PTSD. However, there remains a dearth of tools to measure the specific ...
HIV/AIDS-related institutional mistrust among multiethnic men who have sex with men: Effects on HIV testing and risk behaviors

Hoyt, Michael A; Rubin, Lisa R; Nemeroff, Carol J; Lee, Joyce; Huebner, David M; Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean (American Psychological Association, 2012-05)

Objective: To investigate relationships between institutional mistrust (systematic discrimination, organizational suspicion, and conspiracy beliefs), HIV risk behaviors, and HIV testing in a multiethnic sample of men who ...
An Integrated Alcohol Abuse and Medical Treatment Model for Patients with Hepatitis C

Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean; Patkar, Ashwin Anand; Naggie, Susanna; Coward, Lesleyjill; Mannelli, Paolo; Yao, Jia; Bixby, Patricia; Muir, Andrew Joseph (Springer Verlag, 2012-04)

Background: Patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have high rates of alcohol consumption, which is associated with progression of fibrosis and lower response rates to HCV treatment. Aims: This prospective ...
Magnetic superlens-enhanced inductive coupling for wireless power transfer

Huang, Da; Urzhumov, Yaroslav A.; Smith, David R.; Teo, Koon Hoo; Zhang, Jinyun (American Institute of Physics, 2012-03-20)

We investigate numerically the use of a negative-permeability “perfect lens” for enhancing wireless power transfer between two current carrying coils. The negative permeability slab serves to focus the flux generated in ...
Isotropic-medium three-dimensional cloaks for acoustic and electromagnetic waves

Urzhumov, Yaroslav A.; Landy, Nathan; Smith, David R. (American Institute of Physics, 2012-03-06)

We propose a generalization of the two-dimensional eikonal-limit cloak derived from a conformal transformation to three dimensions. The proposed cloak is a spherical shell composed of only isotropic media; it operates in ...
Assessing the Potential of a Candidate Dengue Vaccine with Mathematical Modeling

Koelle, Dr Katia (Public Library of Science, 2012-03)
Early-life soy exposure and age at menarche

Adgent, Margaret; Daniels, Julie; Rogan, Walter; Adair, Linda; Edwards, Lloyd; Westreich, Daniel J; Maisonet, Mildred; Marcus, Michele (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-03)

This study examines the timing of menarche in relation to infant-feeding methods, specifically addressing the potential effects of soy isoflavone exposure through soy-based infant feeding. Subjects were participants in the ...
The Protective Role of Religious Coping in Adolescents’ Responses to Poverty and Sexual Decision-Making in Rural Kenya

Puffer, Eve Sullivan; Watt, Melissa; Sikkema, Kathleen J.; Ogwang-Odhiambo, Rose A.; Broverman, Sherryl A. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-03)

In this study, we explored how adolescents in rural Kenya apply religious coping in sexual decision-making in the context of high rates of poverty and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Semi-structured interviews were ...
How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology.

MacLean, EL; Matthews, LJ; Hare, BA; Nunn, CL; Anderson, RC; Aureli, F; Brannon, EM; Call, J; Drea, CM; Emery, NJ; Haun, DB; Herrmann, E; Jacobs, LF; Platt, ML; Rosati, AG; Sandel, AA; Schroepfer, KK; Seed, AM; Tan, J; van Schaik, CP; Wobber, V (2012-03)

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the cognitive mechanisms underlying animal behavior, ...
Magnetic levitation of metamaterial bodies enhanced with magnetostatic surface resonances

Urzhumov, Yaroslav A.; Chen, Wenchen; Bingham, Chris; Padilla, Willie; Smith, David R. (American Physical Society, 2012-02-27)

We propose that macroscopic objects built from negative-permeability metamaterials may experience resonantly enhanced magnetic force in low-frequency magnetic fields. Resonant enhancement of the timeaveraged force originates ...
Beam-Target Double-Spin Asymmetry ALT in Charged Pion Production from Deep Inelastic Scattering on a Transversely Polarized 3He Target at 1:4<Q2 < 2:7 GeV2

Gao, Haiyan; Qian, Xin; Chen, Wei; Huang, Min; Qiang, Ye; Zhu, Xiaofeng; Zong, Xing (American Physical Society, 2012-02-03)

We report the first measurement of the double-spin asymmetry ALT for charged pion electroproduction in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic electron scattering on a transversely polarized 3He target. The kinematics focused on the ...
Characterization of high order modes of plasmonic antenna formed by nanoparticle/thin film hybrid structures

Chen, Shiuan-Yeh; Urzhumov, Yaroslav A.; Smith, David R.; Lazarides, Anne A. (SPIE, 2012-02-01)

The plasmonic modes of a nano-antenna formed by a nanoparticle/thin film hybrid system are investigated. Plasmonic nano-antennas are well-known for their capabilities to concentrate electromagnetic wave into extreme small ...
Pregnancy, Alcohol Intake, and Intimate Partner Violence among Men and Women Attending Drinking Establishments in a Cape Town, South Africa Township

Eaton, Lisa A.; Kalichman, Seth C.; Sikkema, Kathleen J.; Skinner, Donald; Watt, Melissa; Pieterse, Desiree; Pitpitan, Eileen V. (Springer Verlag, 2012-02)

The highest rates of fetal alcohol syndrome worldwide can be found in South Africa. Particularly in impoverished townships in the Western Cape, pregnant women live in environments where alcohol intake during pregnancy has ...
Health Programming for Clergy: An Overview of Protestant Programs in the United States

Wallace, Amanda; Proeschold-Bell, Rae Jean; Legrand, Sara; James, John; Swift, Robin; Toole, David; Toth, Matthew (Springer US, 2012-02)

The health of clergy is important, and clergy may find health programming tailored to them more effective. Little is known about existing clergy health programs. We contacted Protestant denominational headquarters and ...
Towards macroscopic optical invisibility devices: geometrical optics of complex materials

Urzhumov, Yaroslav A.; Smith, David R. (2012-01-18)

Recently, a path towards macroscopic, transparent optical cloaking devices that may conceal objects spanning millions of wavelengths has been proposed [1]. Such devices are designed using transformation optics (TO) [2,3]. ...
Adjusting to Trade Policy: Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish

Tarozzi, Alessandro (MIT Press, 2012-01)

In 2003, after claims of dumping, the United States imposed heavy tariffs on Vietnamese catfish, which led to a collapse of imports. We use panel data to explore household responses in the catfish-producing Mekong delta ...
The Truncated Road Movie: Thomas Brasch and the Berlin Wall

Norberg, Jakob (2012)