Browsing Scholarly Articles by Subject "united-states"

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Analysis of Educational Materials and Destruction/Opt-Out Initiatives for Storage and Use of Residual Newborn Screening Samples

Haga, Dr Susanne (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

In recent years, the storage and use of residual newborn screening (NBS) samples has gained attention. To inform ongoing policy discussions, this article provides an update of previous work on new policies, educational ...
Estimation of long-term basin scale evapotranspiration from streamflow time series

Palmroth, Sari; Katul, Gaby; Oren, Ram (AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION, 2010)

We estimated long-term annual evapotranspiration (ETQ) at the watershed scale by combining continuous daily streamflow (Q) records, a simplified watershed water balance, and a nonlinear reservoir model. Our analysis used ...
An Evaluation of the Statistics of Rainfall Extremes in Rain Gauge Observations, and Satellite-Based and Reanalysis Products Using Universal Multifractals

Sun, Xiaoming; Barros, Ana (AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC, 2010)

Confidence in the estimation of variations in the frequency of extreme events, and specifically extreme precipitation, in response to climate variability and change is key to the development of adaptation strategies. One ...
Favorable Climate Change Response Explains Non-Native Species' Success in Thoreau's Woods

Willis, Charles (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Invasive species have tremendous detrimental ecological and economic impacts. Climate change may exacerbate species invasions across communities if non-native species are better able to respond to climate changes than ...
Global Trends in Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever

Crump, John (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Typhoid and paratyphoid fever continue to be important causes of illness and death, particularly among children and adolescents in south-central and Southeast Asia, where enteric fever is associated with poor sanitation ...
How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence rates are doubled by prospective versus retrospective ascertainment

Moffitt, Terrie; Caspi, Avshalom; Polanczyk, G. (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

Background. Most information about the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders comes from retrospective surveys, but how much these surveys have undercounted due to recall failure is unknown. We compared results from a ...
How Do Gasoline Prices Affect Fleet Fuel Economy?

Timmins, Christopher; Li, Shanjun; von Haefen, Roger H. (AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, 2009)

Exploiting a rich dataset of passenger vehicle registrations in 20 US MSAs from 1997 to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline prices affect fleet ...
The Impact of Shame on Health-Related Quality of Life Among HIV-Positive Adults with a History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Kershaw, Trace; Hansen, Nathan B. (MARY ANN LIEBERT INC, 2010)

Childhood sexual abuse is prevalent among people living with HIV, and the experience of shame is a common consequence of childhood sexual abuse and HIV infection. This study examined the role of shame in health-related ...
Influenza Vaccination of Household Contacts of Newborns: A Hospital-Based Strategy to Increase Vaccination Rates

Walter, Emmanuel; Hellkamp, Anne; Dolor, Rowena (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

We implemented a hospital-based influenza vaccination program for household contacts of newborns. Among mothers not vaccinated prenatally, 44.7% were vaccinated through the program, as were 25.7% of fathers. A hospital-based ...
Insurance Coverage among People Living with Combined HIV/AIDS, Chronic Mental Illness, and Substance Abuse Disorders

Conover, Christopher J. (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 2010)

HIV triply-diagnosed adults (those with chronic mental illness and substance abuse disorders) must rely heavily on public insurance to cover high annual medical costs (similar to$50,000). This study examines the nature and ...
Lessons Learned from the Anaerobe Survey: Historical Perspective and Review of the Most Recent Data (2005-2007)

Harrell, Lizzie J. (UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2010)

Background. The rationale and lessons learned through the evolution of the National Survey for the Susceptibility of Bacteroides fragilis Group from its initiation in 1981 through 2007 are reviewed here. The survey was ...
Limited educational attainment and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional analysis using data from the Johnston County (North Carolina) Osteoarthritis Project

Siaton, Bernadette C. (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Introduction: Applying a cross-sectional analysis to a sample of 2,627 African-American and Caucasian adults aged >= 45 years from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, we studied the association between educational ...
Organizing Women as Women: Hybridity and Grassroots Collective Action in the 21(st) Century

Goss, Dr Kristin (CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010)

The Million Mom March (favoring gun control) and Code Pink: Women for Peace (focusing on foreign policy, especially the war in Iraq) are organizations that have mobilized women as women in an era when other women's groups ...
Physical activity in US Blacks: a systematic review and critical examination of self-report instruments

Bennett, Gary (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Background: Physical activity self-report instruments in the US have largely been developed for and validated in White samples. Despite calls to validate existing instruments in more diverse samples, relatively few instruments ...
PKC Signaling Regulates Drug Resistance of the Fungal Pathogen Candida albicans via Circuitry Comprised of Mkc1, Calcineurin, and Hsp90

Zaas, Dr Aimee; Schell, Wiley; Betancourt-Quiroz, Marisol; Perfect, John (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Fungal pathogens exploit diverse mechanisms to survive exposure to antifungal drugs. This poses concern given the limited number of clinically useful antifungals and the growing population of immunocompromised individuals ...
Regulation of male germ cell cycle arrest and differentiation by DND1 is modulated by genetic background

Cook, Matthew; Munger, Steven C.; Capel, Blanche (COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2011)

Human germ cell tumors show a strong sensitivity to genetic background similar to Dnd1(Ter/Ter) mutant mice, where testicular teratomas arise only on the 129/SvJ genetic background. The introduction of the Bax mutation ...
Role of oxidative stress on diesel-enhanced influenza infection in mice

Gowdy, Kymberly (BIOMED CENTRAL LTD, 2010)

Numerous studies have shown that air pollutants, including diesel exhaust (DE), reduce host defenses, resulting in decreased resistance to respiratory infections. This study sought to determine if DE exposure could affect ...