We explore budget data from twenty-nine Western countries from 1948 to 2012 to investigate the impact of partisan control of government on spending patterns. We use a variety of empirical methods, but the central element of analysis is to code spending allocations as “consistent” or “inconsistent” based on the partisanship of the majority party in government. Looking across the board, we show t...

ANNALS, AAPSS, 624, July 2009 Using qualitative in-depth interviews with a sample of adult male youth workers (n = 55), including a subset of twenty-nine fathers, the author explores how men’s fathering and youth experiences can be viewed as part of a larger, integrated social mosaic. Informed selectively by social constructionist, symbolic interactionist, life course, and generativity themes, ...

An array of empirical research has emerged related to public participation in health research. To date, few studies have explored the particular perspectives of gay and bisexual men taking part in behavioural surveillance research, which includes the donation of saliva swabs to investigate HIV prevalence and rates of undiagnosed HIV. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-nine ga...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the cross-cultural adaptation of the main quality of life instruments related to oral health. Studies on cross-cultural adaptation of oral health-related quality of life measures were searched for in LILACS and MEDLINE. Twenty-nine articles were analyzed, identifying distinct methods for cross-cultural adaptation of oral health-related quality of life measu...

We reflect on remarkable accomplishments in global tuberculosis (TB) control and identify persistent obstacles to the successful elimination of TB from the United States and globally. One hundred and twenty nine years after Koch's discovery of the etiologic agent of TB, this health scourge continues to account for 9.4 million cases and 1.7 million deaths annually worldwide. Implementation of th...

of papers, ISPE April 2011.33) Wijnans L., Dieleman J., Voordouw B., Stur-kenboom M., Abstract of papers, ISPE April2011.34) Song J. Y., Cheong H. J., Heo J. Y., Noh J. Y., Choi W. S., Park D. W., Lee J., Jeong H.W., Kee S. Y., Kim W. J.,Vaccine, 29, 13951398 (2011).35) Gri‹n M., Monto A. S., Belongia E. A.,Treanor J. J., Chen Q., Chen J., Talbot H. K., Ohmi...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D deficiency is frequent and has been associated with fatigue in uncontrolled trials. METHODS This is the first double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of per os vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) in treating fatigue among otherwise healthy persons with low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels. We enrolled 120 individuals (mean age 29 ± 6 ...

This study seeks to explore the sources of strength giving rise to resilience among older people. Twenty-nine in-depth interviews were conducted with older people who receive long-term community care. The interviews were subjected to a thematic content analysis. The findings suggest that the main sources of strength identified among older people were constituted on three domains of analysis; th...

Twenty nine chronic schizophrenics maintained on trifluperazinc treatment were included in the trial trifluperazinc was discontinued till relapse occured. Standard injectable trifluperazinc was reinstituted for 10 days. This was replaced by weekly dose of 20-40 mg penfluridol orally for a period of d months. Assessment was done monthly and side effects were monitored. At the end of 6 months, 28...

The purpose of this study was to assess dentists' knowledge about fluorides as well as their prescription practices. The study population consists of all general and pediatric dentists in Houston, and the sample consists of 360 general and forty-one pediatric dentists. Data were collected with a self-administered mail questionnaire, which consisted of thirteen open-ended and twenty-nine precode...