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View Post: Updated: Everybody Run that Homosexual Wants a Son...
20 hours ago by Past Member  
So there you have it—people previously convicted of abusing children, domestic violence, assault, battery and drug sale or use are all given a chance to adopt a child but if you have the dreaded "gay disease" you are out and out banned from adoption ... "an expert in psychology and epidemiology with a specialization in health disparities among minority communities, including lesbians and gay men, and in the use of statistical analysis in social science research." ...
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View Post: Arthritis Research & Therapy
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View Blog: All statistical analyses were conducted with the SAS statistical analysis package (version 9.1; SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA). Data are presented as means ± SDs for continuous variables and as numbers of subjects for categorical variables. ..... ANOVA = analysis of variance; CB = Comprehensive Neuropsychological Battery; CB-CII = Comprehensive Battery cognitive impairment index; CES-D = Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale; CFQ = Cognitive Failures

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View Post: eScholarship: Field performance of a nephelometer in rural ...
2 Nov 2005 by Susan L. Fischer  
Introduction Indoor air quality in rural kitchens: a public health priority Although indoor air pollution has garnered increasing attention since the First International Indoor Climate Symposium (Denmark, 1978), research has ..... Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, 1995. 5(1): p. 45-56. Brauer, M., et al., Assessment of particulate concentrations from domestic biomass combustion in rural Mexico. Environmental Science & Technology, 1996. 30(1): p. ...
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View Post: Respiratory Research
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View Blog: Self-reported functional limitation was measured using a previously validated approach used by Sternfeld and colleagues, based on questions from the Framingham Disability Study, Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of .... Statistical analysis was conducted using SAS software, version 9.1 (SAS Institute, Inc, Cary, NC). We used logistic regression analysis to elucidate the impact of body composition on the risk of self-reported physical functional limitation.

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View Post: Low Concentration of Vitamin E Linked to Physical Decline in Older ...
22 Jan 2008
"Although the findings from this epidemiological study cannot establish causality, they provide a solid base that low concentration of vitamin E contributes to decline in physical function," the study authors conclude. ... In a previous analysis of the Women's Health and Aging Study I by the authors of the current research, Bartali and colleagues found that reduced serum levels of vitamins B6 and B12, along with reduced levels of selenium, were independent predictors of ...
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View Post: Psychological Assessment via the Internet: A Reliability and ...
30 Jan 2007 by mvallejo@psi.uned.es (Miguel Vallejo)  
Statistical analysis was carried out with SPSS version 12.0. Reliability as internal consistency measured by Cronbach alpha was tested for both formats of the questionnaires and their subscales. Pearson correlation was used to prove the ..... Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 31.01.2007. Except where otherwise noted, articles published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research are distributed under the terms of the ...
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View Post: PsycINFO record for this reference - PsycNET - Display Record
1 Nov 2007 by Campbell, Susan B.; Matestic, Patricia;...  
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 39, 1-39. DeMulder, E. K., & Radke-Yarrow, M. (1991). Attachment with affectively ill and well mothers: Concurrent behavioral correlates. Development and Psychopathology, 3, 227-242. ... National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network. (1999a). The course of maternal depressive symptoms, maternal sensitivity, and child outcomes. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1297-1310. ...
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View Post: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
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View Blog: Validation data was collected via an on-line survey and analyzed according to an a priori statistical analysis plan to validate the overall score as well as each domain. Item level criteria were used to reduce the preliminary item pool. ..... in the validation battery were used as anchors to approximate the minimally important difference. This analysis is exploratory and meant to provide preliminary estimates of differences established using an anchor-based approach.

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View Post: Longitudinal Analysis of Sexual Function Reported by Men in the ...
3 Jul 2007 by Moinpour, CM, Darke, AK, Donaldson, GW,...  
Affiliations of authors: Southwest Oncology Group Statistical Center (CMM, AKD) and Division of Public Health Sciences (DLP), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, ... A battery of questionnaires assessed sexual dysfunction (Sexual Activity Scale score); age; race; SF-36 Mental Health Inventory-5, Physical Function, and Vitality scores; body mass index; smoking status; and the presence of diabetes and ...
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