The activities of the life sciences are essential to provide solutions for the future, for both individuals and society. Society has demanded growing accountability from the scientific community as implications of life science research rise in influence and there are concerns about the credibility, integrity and motives of science. While the scientific community has responded to concerns about ...

PURPOSE To explore potential psychosocial predictors for initiation of sexual intercourse among middle-school, inner-city youth, using longitudinal data from the Healthy and Alive! project. METHODS We conducted hierarchical, logistic regression with adjustment for intraclass correlation over two sequential periods, including seventh and eighth grades (N = 3163), to assess the independent infl...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there are associated long-term deficits in the cognitive, academic, or behavioral outcomes of children with a previous episode of Kawasaki disease. DESIGN Cohort analytic study. SETTING A tertiary care pediatric hospital in Ottawa, Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-two patients with a past diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. Siblings of the patients with Kawasaki dise...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

Health disparities are exacerbated during times of disasters. To decrease health disparities, it is essential that health care providers understand the specific needs, culture, and norms of individuals, groups, and populations in a disaster. Survivors respond and recover from disaster events within the context of their culture and beliefs; therefore, implementing cultural competent intervention...

Players bargained over chips with different exchange rates and with different information regarding these exchange rates. Offers generally reflected a self-serving definition of fairness. There is ample evidence that relative income shares entered players utility functions, resulting in predictable variations in both rejection rates and offers. However, offers were significantly more likely to ...

Let Td : L2([0, 1] ) C([0, 1] ) be the d-dimensional integration operator. We show that its Kolmogorov and entropy numbers decrease with order at least k(log k)d&1 . From this we derive that the small ball probabilities of the Brownian sheet on [0, 1] under the C([0, 1] )-norm can be estimated from below by exp(&C= |log =|), which improves the best known lower bounds considerably. We also get s...