OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between physician communication competence and A1c control among Hispanics and non-Hispanics seen in primary care practices. STUDY DESIGN Observational. METHODS Direct observation and audio-recording of patient-physician encounters by 155 Hispanic and non-Hispanic white patients seen by 40 physicians in 20 different primary care clinics. Audio-recording...

background: the present study aimed to determine the association between constructs of the health belief model (hbm) (i.e. perceived susceptibility to smoking health-related problems, perceived barriers to non-smoking, perceived benefits of non-smoking, and perceived self-efficacy to non-smoking and cues to action of non-smoking) and cigarette smoking among male pre-university students. methods...

Recent evidence suggests that self/non-self discrimination exists among roots; its mechanisms, however, are still unclear. We compared the growth of Buchloe dactyloides cuttings that were grown in the presence of neighbors that belonged to the same physiological individual, were separated from each other for variable periods, or originated from adjacent or remote tillers on the same clone. The ...

The common perspective of nearly all “self-*” approaches is that of considering human beings as “non-self” from the information system perspective (Figure 1-a). Indeed, one of the very common goals of all approaches is to move humans out-of-the-loop, by making information systems able to perform in an autonomous way all that kind of (costly and often too complex to bear) human activity related ...

LENR ion band state models involve deuteron many-body systems resembling superfluids. The physics of atom Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices teaches that superfluid behavior occurs when the potential barriers between adjacent potential wells permit high tunneling rates and the well potentials are shallow. These superfluids have fractional occupation of individual wells. Well periodic...

A self-consistent approach for the evaluation of the existing three-parameter corresponding states principles of non-polar fluids and the calculation of the corresponding states parameters is presented. This self consistent approach is based upon the assumption that the contribution of the third parameter to the thermophysical properties is much smaller than the contributions of the first two p...

A statistical generative model is presented as an alternative to negative selection in anomaly detection of string data. We extend the probabilistic approach to binary classification from fixed-length binary strings into variable-length strings from a finite symbol alphabet by fitting a mixture model of multinomial distributions for the frequency of adjacent symbols. Robust and localized change...