BACKGROUND Incident hemodialysis patients have the highest mortality in the first several months after starting dialysis. This study evaluated the in-hospital mortality rate after hemodialysis initiation, as well as related risk factors. METHODS We examined in-hospital mortality and related factors in 2,692 patients starting incident hemodialysis. The study population included patients with a...

This paper examines research investigating the effects of neighborhood context on the onset and persistence of early-starting antisocial pathways across middle and late childhood. The review begins by presenting theory and research mapping the early-starting developmental pathway. Next, sociologically and psychologically based investigations linking neighborhood context and early antisocial beh...

In this paper I examine mixed synchronous and asynchronous text-based conversations that have been carried on in the context of a computer-mediated communication (CMC) system called “Babble”, which has been in use by a group of nineteen people for nearly two years. The primary goal is to explore principled ways of analyzing and characterizing conversational activity in such systems using genre ...

Modeling the interactivity of conversations recently has gained increasing interest in the telecommunications community, especially with regard to the integration of multimedia applications over packet-based transmission technologies. A quantitative description of interactivity either relies on (subjective) user tests or on instrumental (objective) metrics which use appropriate signal parameter...

Introduction When people come along to seek out therapeutic conversations, it is generally because they are not happy with how things are going in their lives and they would like things to be diff erent. This paper explores some broad implications for practice which arise from understandings about identity which emphasise diff erence and possibility, and describes how these connect with the int...

femininity typology and girl students (a case study: students guilan university) the concept of femininity is like a social structure with varied notions in different time and backgrounds. this article is aimed atthe typology of girl students of guilan university. in foregoing study, semi-organized intervies with the aid of tageted sampling and qualitative methods are used. for this reason, thi...

As we consider the future of Pacific scholarship in Aotearoa–New Zealand it becomes vital to what wish that look like and how get there. Part talanoa involves considering possible levers change are whether they capable fulfilling our desires for change. This article outlines different national interventions being made increase engagement Zealand’s universities, then considers these vision commu...