Studies have found that the initiation of ART usually has a considerable beneficial effect on laboratory measures of a person’s health. This effect of ART is so profound that it has a long-term benefit: Specifically, researchers increasingly expect that a young adult who is infected with HIV today and diagnosed shortly thereafter and who initiates ART and takes it every day (adherence) and who ...

Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has become a significant public health problem. Although numerous studies have examined cross-sectional psychological correlates of NSSI, there has been little research examining predictors of NSSI over time. The present study examined cross-sectional and longitudinal correlates of NSSI in 81 young adult self-injurers (M age=19, 74.1% female, 51.9% Caucasian), 51 ...

The Canberra Eating Disorders Program (EDP) is a specialised program which treats people with an eating disorder of any age. The EDP uses Family Based Therapy (FBT) to treat both younger and older adolescents with an eating disorder. FBT is the most effective treatment for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa; however, the evidence supporting the use of FBT in the older adolescent and young adult ...

BACKGROUND Many studies have examined childhood and adolescent obesity, but few have examined young adults and the effect of their home and current living environments on prevalence rates. The present study explores contextual factors affecting overweight and obesity among university students in China and, in particular, focuses on how the SES-obesity relationship varies across different geogra...

Prior to the Affordable Care Act, the majority of states in the U.S. had already implemented state laws that extended the age that young adults could enroll as dependents on their parent's employer-based health insurance plans. Because of the fundamental link between health insurance and employment in the U.S., such policies may effect the labor supply decisions of young adults. Although the in...

A target BW is often used to estimate sexual maturity in beef heifers. The target BW, a percentage of mature BW, is generally an average for the breed, herd, or both. Heifer development is done in groups or herds, and not all heifers respond similarly to the same development regimen. Generally, heifers fed at a higher plane of nutrition gain more BW and tend to have increased pregnancy rates, b...

The last two decades can be characterised as a period of globalisation which has involved economic liberalisation combined with the opening-up of economies to international trade and financial flows. Economic liberalisation implied the lifting of various controls and restrictions and of entry barriers into specific sectors like banking, as well as the pursuit of market-oriented reforms, with fa...

UNLABELLED Dietary patterns present at the age of the young adult have great probability to remain unchanged for the rest of the life and may contribute to eating disorders later in life. The aim of this study is the analysis of the intake patterns for fruits and vegetables in students from Timis County. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a cross sectional study using a stratified cluster samp...

The distribution of the sequence of ranked maximum and minimum values attained during excursions of a standard Brownian bridge (Bbr t ; 0 t 1) is described. The height M j of the jth highest maximum over a positive excursion of the bridge has the same distribution as M 1 =j, where the distribution of M 1 = sup0 t 1B br t is given by L evy's formula P (M br+ 1 > x) = e 2x . The probability densi...