BACKGROUND The time course of neointimal formation after stent implantation has not been studied extensively by angioscopy in the drug-eluting stent era. METHODS AND RESULTS Serial angioscopic findings at first follow-up (3.6+/-1.1 months), second follow-up (10.5+/-1.6 months), and third follow-up (21.2+/-2.2 months) after stent implantation were compared between sirolimus-eluting stents (SES...

How and why are children assigned to specific third grade teachers? Would it be a good thing if public schools had formal mechanisms for informing parents about who makes those teacher assignments and about what criteria they use? Might it be even better if parents were told precisely how their own child's assignment is made? This is where we started. These questions, which no one else seems to...

This research investigated the effects of a nutrition education program on dietary behavior and nutrition knowledge among elementary school-aged children participating in a Social Cognitive Theory-based nutrition education program. Participants included 1100 second-grade and third-grade students selected by convenience-type sampling from public schools in Alabama. A preassessment and postassess...

AIM The aim of the study was to compare two different neurotoxicity scales in grading chemotherapy-induced neurotoxicity. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 114 cancer patients who started chemotherapy with vinca alcaloids, platinum derivatives or taxanes. Neurotoxicity was evaluated with the National Cancer Institute-Common Toxicity Criteria (NCI-CTC) and oxaliplatin scales a...

The present study used a mediated priming paradigm to examine whether developmental differences exist in the integration of semantic information with orthographic and phonological information during visual word recognition. In Experiment 1, we found that the integration of semantics with phonology and orthography differed among third-grade, sixth-grade and college students: orthographically bas...

The world's largest school-based mental health program, Habilidades para la Vida [Skills for Life (SFL)], has been operating on a national scale in Chile for 15 years. SFL's activities include using standardized measures to screen elementary school students and providing preventive workshops to students at risk for mental health problems. This paper used SFL's data on 37,397 students who were i...