The cultural equivalence of psychological outcome measures remains a major area of investigation. The current study sought to test the factor structure and factorial invariance of the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18) with a sample of adult individuals of Mexican descent (N=923) across nativity status (U.S.- vs. foreign-born), language format (English vs. Spanish), and gender. The results sho...

The aim of this study was to examine the birthdates distribution of French male soccer players (n = 363,590) who dropped out during or after the 2006-2007 season, to determine whether the relative age effect is linked to dropout behaviour. An over-representation of players born late in the competitive year was observed among dropouts, from the U-9 to the U-18 age categories, whereas their count...

BRITTA SIEGMUND,1 GIAMILA FANTUZZI,1 FLORIAN RIEDER,2 FABIA GAMBONI-ROBERTSON,3 HANS-ANTON LEHR,4 GUNTHER HARTMANN,2 CHARLES A. DINARELLO,1 STEFAN ENDRES,2 AND ANDREAS EIGLER2 Departments of 1Medicine and 3Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80206; 2Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt, Klinikum of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universi...

1. Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)-induced steroidogenesis, obtained by continuous administration of ACTH for 3 days, produces in man (a) sustained elevations of plasma deoxycorticosterone and cortisol concentrations, (b) transient elevations of plasma aldosterone and 18-hydroxycorticosterone concentrations that return to near-control values, and (c) brisk initial increases in plasma 18-hydroxydeoxy...

2,4-dithiouracil (DTU) forms in the crystals the H-bonded monohydrates of a 1:1:1 ratio with 18-crown-6 (18C6) 1, cis,syn,cis-isomer of dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 (DCH6A) 2, and benzo-18-crown-6 (B18C6) 3, while the anhydrous adduct with cis,anti,cis-isomer of dicyclohexano-18-crown-6 (DCH6B) 4 is of a 2:1 ratio. In 1-3 the components reproducibly alternate in the chains, while in 4 the chains ar...

In this paper we define a complex adapted connection of type Bott on vertical bundle of a complex Finsler manifold. When this connection is flat we get a vertical vector valued cohomology. The notions are introduced by analogy with the real case for foliations. Finally, using the partial Bott connection we give a characterization of strongly Kähler-Finsler manifolds. 2000 Mathematics Subject Cl...

Let G be a linear algebraic group, H a closed subgroup of G and X a G-variety. This paper explores the connection between G-orbits and H-orbits in X, concentrating in particular on the question of when we have the implications G · x closed in X implies H · x closed in X, and vice versa. Some of the general results found in this paper are then used in the special case where G and H are reductive...