Lack of physical activity and overweight status continues to be a significant health problem in the United States. To assess the actual prevalence of these problems, we reviewed data from the School-based Health Promotion Centers in one middle school, and one High school in central Kentucky. A total of 232 6th graders and 607 9th graders were included. A total of 92% of 6th graders and 45% of 9...

Background: Current study aimed to investigate whether perceived neighborhood as unsafe during adolescence predicts the subsequent perceived health two decades later. Methods: In a prospective study of an ethnically diverse urban sample (83.2% Black), conducted from 1994 to 2012, 851 adolescents were enrolled at 9th grade. Three hundred and seventy‐eight participants were followed from 9th grad...

Isis Truck, Jacques Malenfant. Towards A Unification Of Some Linguistic Representation Models: A Vectorial Approach. The 9th International FLINS Conference on Computational Intelligence in Decision and Control, Aug 2010, Chengdu, China. World Scientific, Computational Intelligence: Foundations and Applications, Proceedings of the 9th International FLINS Conference (World Scientific Proceedings ...